Career Search Tips
Rev Up Your ICAN Queries
The Institute Career Assistance Network (ICAN) includes more than 3,000 MIT alumni in diverse fields willing to serve as career advisors, share their career experiences, and offer advice by telephone, email, or in person.
ICAN provides important networking opportunities. Interacting with your peers is not only good career planning, it also builds lifelong relationships and strengthens the MIT community.
Use ICAN when you are looking for a job, considering a career change, moving to a new city, or just want to get connected.
Tips on searching the alumni directory for ICAN advisors:
- To find alumni who volunteered to provide career advice, click on Career Advisor under the Work tab in the Browse by Category section on the left.
- To find alumni working in a particular field, use the Industry category under the Work tab in Browse by Category.
- Example: Manufacturing and Communications
- To find alumni doing a particular job, use the Function category under the Work tab in Browse by Category.
- Example: Teaching/Faculty
- Companies listed in the Company category under the Work tab in Browse by Category are listed in alphabetical order.
- To increase the comprehensiveness of Company searches, omit terms such as "Corp.", "Inc.", etc.
- Example: Enter "Microsoft" instead of "Microsoft Corp" or "Microsoft Corporation" in the text box under Search the Alumni Directory to find alumni working at Microsoft.
- The Detailed Record of an individual advisor includes, in addition to the standard directory information, comprehensive information about job duties, specialties, interests, and other comments supplied by the alumnus. Enter a search term in the search box under Search the Alumni Directory and select the ICAN Advisor Info category from the Search In Category drop-down menu to search these fields.
Ready to get started? Begin your search by using the search box or categories in the My Connection area on the left.
