Undergraduate Services at Rose Hill

How can the Personal and Professional Development (PPD) Center help you?

PPD offers a wide array of career services for Gabelli School undergraduate students. These offerings have been designed based upon the feedback of employers and industry experts, as well as students themselves.

Group workshops and events

Spotlight Series

This series features small-group lectures about job functions and industries—a great way to learn about the breadth of career opportunities that awaits once you graduate. Still deciding which career path interests you? The clarification these provide can help you to narrow down career choice. Recent industry topics have included:

  • Investment Banking
  • Investment Management
  • Equity Research
  • Accounting specialties
  • Marketing

Career-search skills workshops

Seeking an internship or a job that requires specific skill sets or warrants you crafting a resume that will set you apart? To ensure you are prepared, the Personal and Professional Development team hosts frequent workshops that develop your abilities to make a strong impression with employers. Examples of this type of programming include:

  • How a Recruiter Looks at your Résumé
  • Getting Ready for Employer Presentations or Career Fairs
  • Networking and Informational Meetings
  • Interviewing Preparation
  • Crafting and Telling Your Story

One-on-one counseling appointments

Addressing your career goals and objectives is our number one priority. To that end, Personal and Professional Development offers one-on-one access to our team members, who are capable of advising you generally (if you are not yet sure of your career goal) or more specifically, based on industry (if you have a particular career in mind, such as accounting, finance, marketing or analytics). You can participate in an individual meeting in one of two ways:

Walk-in Advising

“Talk to Us Tuesdays” is our way of making Personal and Professional Development available to students even when formal planning with an advisor isn’t possible. We offer walk-in hours from  2:00 – 3:00 p.m. every Tuesday in the PPD suite, which is located on the third floor of Hughes Hall, room 300B (to the left when you emerge from the elevator).

Scheduled Appointments

Our career advisors make their schedules public on RamCentral, where you can log in with your Fordham username and password to pre-book an appointment.

Practicing Interviewing Techniques

Personal and Professional Development arranges a Mock Interview Week that offers five full days of time slots for interview practice. Between the PPD staff and outside volunteers, interviewers are available with expertise in accounting, general management, information systems, investment banking, marketing, and alternative investments. Time slots are available on a first-come, first-served basis, with preference given to juniors and seniors who are about to head into the most crucial time for internship and job interviews. The PPD team sends out an email each fall with instructions on how to sign up.

At any other time, individual career advisors can arrange a mock interview to suit your needs. Please schedule a one-on-one meeting to discuss the interview you have coming up, and an advisor will create a plan to help you. Learn about your one-on-one meeting options in the section above.

Field-specific Advising and Coaching

Among the premier advantages that Personal and Professional Development offers to Gabelli School students is the deep industry knowledge and experience of our career advisors. They have worked in many fields, often in corporate recruiting. They understand better than anyone what recruiters are looking for in the résumés and interviews of early-stage career job candidates.

Through group workshops and individual career-advising appointments, you will have access to individuals who have a deep familiarity with the fields of accounting, finance, information systems/IT, management, and marketing—and who can help you to find the right career path for you.