<p>I hear people talking about students who get a job after undergrad NU with a certain gpa and stuff. Are there job agencies that recruit students with good gpas? Also, if so, what are these jobs like and what do they pay?</p>
<p>So this question is simultaneously overly broad and overly narrow. So I’ll give it a go - </p>
<p>What job do you want? Pre-med kids go to med school. Pre-law kids go to law school. Journalism kids try for jobs in journalism. Theater kids are unemployed (just kidding, but not really).</p>
<p>Are there recruiting firms? Yes. You can go the route of a staffing firm, but that typically is unnecessary. They also exist outside the purview of NU.</p>
<p>Are there corporate recruiters/job fairs? Yes. Yes there are.</p>
<p>What do they pay? Google it. I lack the time, desire, or generosity to list the 400 careers a NU grad could pursue and then guess at how much you’ll make.</p>
<p>haha sorry, i didnt know much about it and couldnt help but be broad. So pre-law kids go to law school? Ohh no I meant recruiting firms that recruite kids to work with only an undergrad degree. Not what jobs people do after undergrad and grad. Sorry about that. I was just curious to what jobs people get immediately after undergrad</p>
<p>a lot of people go into consulting, some finance, and others according to their school…ie. engineers- engineering, journalism- journalism etc. and of course others go to grad school or do something uncommon.</p>
<p>[Most</a> of McCormick Class of 2010 Had Jobs at Graduation: McCormick School of Engineering at Northwestern](<a href=“http://www.mccormick.northwestern.edu/news/articles/article_745.html]Most”>http://www.mccormick.northwestern.edu/news/articles/article_745.html)
At McCormick, 37% of the 2010 grads had jobs in consulting or finance.</p>
<p>37% had a job in consulting or finance? From graduating from an engineering school? That is strange.</p>
<p>@RockyChen
The stereotype is that engineers who give up on engineering go into consulting.
So I guess 37% of engineers at NU couldn’t find engineering jobs or found the work too hard?</p>
<p>Not at all. </p>
<p>Kids who do CivE or MechE often have the intention of going into finance/consuting all along. Engineering builds a strong quantitative background. Heavy Excel/MatLab/SPSS/Stata etc. plays well to the consulting/I-Banking field.</p>
<p>While engineers certainly do well for themselves, there’s something about 60K immediately after graduation that is hard to resist.</p>
<p>uhh plus consulting is a pretty popular choice for Industrial engineers.</p>
<p>DESTRoyer, what school are you going into , what do u intend to major in? I suspect the particular school might have some institutional data along the lines the S Lee put up for Mac</p>
<p>@Cerebral Assassin: 60k a year after graduation going into engineering seems likely as well, is that not true? My friend’s brother made 80k a year right after graduation from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign working for amazon in Computer Science.</p>
<p>^Not really. Civil/Env engrs often start with less than 50k. Computer engineers for big companies are not representative. Even if they all start with the same salaries, consulting/finance often opens more doors after couple years; many engineering firms also have very low raise.</p>
<p>If you don’t like 1st yr salary (though I have never heard of a computer science graduating and walking into 80k unless they’re going to Google or Microsoft), then look at 3rd yr salary</p>
<p>Consultants after 3 yrs are typically around 90K. They then get their MBA and, if they come back to consulting, are at 110K.</p>
<p>Find the computer science kid who makes 90K after 3 yrs. I won’t hold my breath.</p>
<p>But here’s the dirty little secret of it all: if you are REALLY REALLY good at what you do, the money will eventually come. Computer scientists, consultants, I-Bankers, lawyers, doctors, professors, journalists, actors, accountants. If you are fortunate enough to get to the top of your field, the salary will come - consultants and I-Bankers just tend to get there faster.</p>
<p>I see.</p>
<p>I-Bankers? lol?</p>
<p>Do consultants/finance people recruit at UIUC’s College of Engineering?</p>