Plan Your Future Our Center for Career & Professional Development (CCPD) helps pave the path to success through career education and key connections. Students can connect with employer partners and alumni through externships, internships, on-campus interviews, career expos and more. Our career coaching team is aligned with Lehigh’s colleges to deliver customized career education and connections. The CCPD uses a four-year career learning cycle that will help you take charge of your career development and plan your future. Explore Ask big questions, explore and participate in activities that will help you develop an understanding of how your strengths, skills, interests and values relate to your choice of a major and career. Develop Skills Build effective skills and your personal brand, and develop the tools and strategies needed to secure an internship or full-time position. Gain Experience Try things through capstone projects, research, study abroad and leadership opportunities, as well as internships, externships or a co-op position. Build Connections & Network Build connections and network with alumni and other professionals, seek information and advice about career paths, and work with the CCPD team to develop a strategy. Students can network, search for jobs and connect with career coaches on Handshake, Lehigh’s career management platform. There are over 200,000 employers connected to Handshake, including 98% of Fortune 500 companies. Real-Life Experience Internships, co-ops and experiential learning are an integral part of a Lehigh education and an important step in the career decision-making process. Students have many opportunities to gain real-world experience through the Center for Career & Professional Development, the colleges and Lehigh alumni, as well as formal programs such as the fully funded Iacocca International Internship Program. With 94% of the Class of 2021 completing one or more internships or an experiential learning opportunity, our students have taken on real-world challenges in a wide variety of industries and roles at companies including: • Amazon Lab 126 • Barclays • B. Braun • Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia • Crayola • Curtiss-Wright • Cushman and Wakefield • Deloitte • EY • Forbes • GE Transportation, a Wabtec Company • IBM • Knoll • KPMG • Mailchimp • NASA Jet Propulsion Lab • Pfizer • PwC • Sanofi Pasteur • Vanguard Energy Partners • Wacker lehigh.edu/careerservices An Invaluable Investment #13 on Forbes America’s Top Colleges 2022: Top 25 Highest Earnings #21 on Payscale’s Best Universities for a Bachelor’s Degree #24 on U.S. News Best Value Schools (National Universities)
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