1. Employment

2. Occupations of Past Civil Engineering Graduates  Engineers for major Cities  Engineers for urban Counties  Planners for Consultants  Local, Regional, National, and International Consultant  Engineers for State DOTs  Engineers for FHWA  Research Staff, Faculty, and Administrators at Universities

3. What Kinds of Jobs Do Our Prior Transportation Majors Have  Traditional transportation planning careers  MPO & Region Planning Office  State DOTs  Counties and Cities  Transit planers  Consultants  Transportation planning generalists  Technical experts in transportation demand modeling  ITS experts and planner  Traffic modelers and planners

4. Questions to thing about  What kind of life style do you want?  Where is you family in its life cycle  Are you willing to sacrifice personal time for financial and professional success  Do you have a particular location where you want to live  Do you see yourself as a technical expert of more of a generalist  Do you like doing a lot of one thing or do you like a variety tasks  What is your personal appetite for financial rewards, authority, and ability to make a difference

5. Characteristics of Employers  Opportunity for advancement?  Opportunity for financial rewards?  Opportunity for significant financial rewards?  Opportunity to be involved in interesting projects?  Opportunity to deal with the public?  Opportunity to make a difference?

6. Advice  Most jobs, particularly in the private sector, are obtained through relationships  Most professional business is generate through long-term, professional relationships  Become involved in professional, social, business, and philanthropic organizations ASAP