• Career Development
• Career Counseling
• We're Placing Leaders of the Future

We know you have unique aspirations and career goals—we’re here to help you achieve them. Kendall’s Career Services professionals can help you develop lifelong career planning and job search skills, while providing employment and internship information, resources, and services. We bring the industry into the classroom and the classroom into the industry. You will work with professionals and experience real-world learning that enriches your education with the management expertise you need to lead in the hospitality industry.

Leveraging our Chicago location, the second largest hospitality market in the U.S., you will gain access to diverse, award-winning restaurants and hotels, and a powerhouse economy and service industry. And our ECE students can take advantage of our strong ties with Chicago’s public and private school. As a Kendall student, graduate, or alumni, you will have job opportunities throughout the U.S. and abroad. Depending on your academic program, you will be required to complete one or more work experience, rotational, or supervisory internships.

At Kendall, we deliver key services, such as resume writing, job search strategies, mock interviews and portfolio development. You will learn to manage career development in school and throughout your professional life.

Career Development

The Office of Career Planning and Development serves the career development of the entire Kendall community by preparing, educating and empowering Kendall students and alumni to implement their professional career objectives. The Career Services team prepares you to be a future leader in your chosen professional field with these services:

• Individualized career counseling sessions.
• Resume Clinics
• Interview Do’s and Don’ts
• Mock Interviews
• Career Common Sense
• Job Search Counseling
• Career Resources Library Access
• Career Planning Counseling
• Internship Placement Assistance
• Graduate Placement Assistance
• On-Campus Recruiting Events
• Career Center – On-line Job Bank: Enables students and alumni to search for jobs using search criteria, save their favorite jobs, do a saved search at any time, upload and edit resume on-line, and sign up for on campus interviews

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Career Counseling

We offer career counseling as part of an ongoing process to lead you to greater self-awareness of your career potential.Starting with a focused assessment of individuals’ skills, talents, and interests, we assist students and alumni with the process of identifying career goals, and then taking proactive and effective steps towards reaching those goals, leading to fulfilling employment.

• Identify professional values and personality preferences;
• Understand the process and techniques of conducing an effective job search;
• Develop a professional resume, and other relevant written correspondence;
• Learn strong communication and interviewing skills to facilitate rapport and effectively present one’s achievements and abilities;
• Network with relevant professionals within their field;
• Assess competing offers, realistically select the best fit among them, and negotiate a final employment package (weighing salary, benefits, and other less tangible yet important factors).

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e-Recruiting 

In addition to on and off campus recruiting, Kendall now offers access to Career Connections, a web based system that allows you to search for internships, on-call/special weekend opportunities, and full and part-time jobs.

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We’re Placing Leaders of the Future

"Kendall College provides an excellent foundation for careers in Culinary Arts, Hotel and Hospitality Management, and Early Childhood Education. Our intensive classes, experienced faculty, and internships prepare you to lead, learn the practical implications of key management theories, and experience the challenges of real-life implementation.

At Kendall, we’re passionate about your success. Our Hospitality and Culinary curriculums combine multifaceted managerial instruction with industry experience and career counseling. The Early Childhood Education curriculum is taught be professionals who keep current with research and changing needs in the broader education community.

We teach you to be an analytical and independent thinker, handle complex situations with rigor and creativity, build relationships, and function as a team member and leader in a multi-cultural working world. Our superb location in Chicago situates you just minutes away from more than 17,000 restaurants and hospitality venues, 3 of the 4 best hotels in the country, and one of the largest public and private school systems in the country.

Our faculty and staff bring extensive senior management experience and a vital global perspective to each classroom. The professional achievements of Kendall students testify to our strength of blending superior academics with industry experiences.”

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