Supporting Aggies Beyond Career Fairs
The Career Center offers comprehensive resources for Texas A&M students.
By Olivia Garza '23, Texas A&M Division of Student Affairs

Employers can utilize the Career Center to recruit Aggies.
Division of Student Affairs
For many Texas A&M University students, the words “career center” are synonymous with “career fair,” but the Texas A&M Career Center offers so many other resources to students looking to prepare for their future. One of the unique aspects of the Career Center is its corporate partners. Over 4,000 employers recruit on campus and every company and job posting that comes to campus is vetted by the Career Center. In the 23-24 academic year, those companies recruited for 41,500 jobs, 83,200 positions, and the Career Center hosted 5,500 on-campus interviews.
In addition to the normal vetting and assistance that companies get from the Career Center, 35 employers every year are corporate partners with the department, which means those employers get an elevated level of services. “These services help brands connect with the right student populations,” Director of Employment Services Susan Keough ’23 said. “An organization might come in and say they want business majors, and we can point them in the right direction to other majors and colleges they should recruit from.”
Corporate partners include household names like Apple and Tesla, and smaller companies who need help building a reputation with students. The Career Center helps companies in that regard by assisting with branding themselves to the student body. Not only does this benefit employers, but it also benefits students by introducing them to companies they might not have considered applying to.
“Employers want Aggies,” Career Center Director Desiree Wilson said. “An employer described A&M as the ‘Amazon of universities’ because they could find whatever they were looking for here. For many large employers, Texas A&M is one of only a handful of universities they recruit from. For example, Tesla only recruits at five universities nationwide, with one of them being Texas A&M.
One of the biggest benefits of Texas A&M’s Career Center is its structure. A centralized office with embedded staff in different colleges means students and employers are served in the most efficient way possible. Companies have one point of contact within the university and Career Center staff can use their expertise to take it from there. Using their knowledge of what Texas A&M has to offer, Career Center staff can triage requests that come in and connect recruiters to the staff embedded in the colleges that are home to the students they are looking for.
The Career Center also offers an extensive breadth of workshops and informational programs to students. These programs include helping students apply to graduate or professional school, learning how to polish their resume, career exploration, negotiation strategies, navigating LinkedIn and more.
To find upcoming programs and workshops, visit the Career Center’s calendar. You can learn more about all the Career Center has to offer by visiting their website.