Rosa and Juliann sitting at the Career Fair check-in desk.

NMT students got the chance to connect with 65 companies and organizations across a range of industries at the Fall Career & Graduate School Fair last week. This included many alumni who are now working in industry and who have returned to share career advice and real talk about life after graduation. 

Held in the FIdel Ballrooms, the lineup of participants covered a wide range of fields. National labs and federal agencies were well represented and included Sandia National Laboratories, Los Alamos National Laboratory, the FBI, the Defense Threat Reduction Agency, and the U.S. Navy. There were also many engineering and consulting firms, such as Smith Engineering, Merrick & Company, Bohannan Huston, and Hensel Phelps. Alongside these firms stood resource companies such as Oxy, Intel, PNM, and Freeport-McMoRan. Schools including Colorado School of Mines, George Mason University, and the University of New Mexico’s School of Business and School of Public Administration came to recruit students weighing their next academic step.

Those Techies who are now working within these industries and returned to campus for the fair gave students a chance to hear directly from those who sat in the same classrooms not long ago. They offered a perspective that is harder to get from a typical recruiter table.

For many students, especially those nearing graduation, the fair is one of the most direct ways to land an internship or a first job out of college and it gives future NMT alumni a strong cross section of where their degrees can lead.

We thank our sponsors, Sandia National Labs, which is the nation’s premier science and engineering lab for national security and technology innovation, Riley Exploration Permian and Intera, a geosciences and engineering consulting firm. The NMT organizers were the Student Leadership and Engagement Staff, including Jaime Wood, Assistant Dean of Student Leadership and Engagement, and Rosa Jaramillo, the Manager of Career Services and Experiential Learning. 

 

By Jaime Terrazas