Katie Crawford joins us today for the Not So Secret Guide to Being a Berkeley Engineer podcast from the Career Center to introduce us to the events, programs and resources that are available to students in the College of Engineering. Hear her tips on what you should be doing this summer to get ready for the first career fairs that happen in September. Also, learn some tips and advice of how to prepare for your post-Berkeley career before you get to Berkeley in the fall.

LAURA VOGT: Hello and welcome to The Not So Secret Guide to Being a Berkeley Engineer. I am Laura Vogt, the Communications and Events Manager for Engineering Student Services. Today I’m so happy to have Katie Crawford from the the Career Center with us. Katie, please introduce yourself and tell us what the Career Center does for the students of UC Berkeley.

KATIE CRAWFORD: Hello thank you for having me again.

LV: And let’s have you introduce yourself for all of our new students.

KC: Sure. So as Laura said, my name is Katie Crawford. I am the Career Counselor leading our engineering team at the Cal Career Center. So that means that I am the career counselor who sees all of the students within the College of Engineering including freshmen through graduate students and also run all of the programming career related programming for this population.

LV: What are the Career Center’s goal for Berkeley students?

KC: So in an ideal world the Career Center would love to see every student on campus graduate and walk across that stage with their dream job. That dream internship or their dream graduate school acceptance. So in an ideal world that’s what would happen and that is the reason, the sole reason we exist. We’re the only department (on campus) that solely exists to help students find their dream jobs and dream careers.

LV: So your point of being here, everything that you do, that’s what your endgame is.

KC: Yes. So we are very, very student centered office.