Welcome to the STEM Career Community!
Science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) continue to drive the strategy of all businesses worldwide. Here you will find career-related information such as blogs, jobs, resources, courses, and events specific to STEM topics to help you embrace your career and academic journey!
Employers to Explore: STEM
Handshake is SNHU’s job board for online learners and alumni! We’ve collected a collection list of top STEM employers targeting talented professionals like you. Browse and use these lists to discover companies, explore job opportunities, and find your next step.
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Timing is Everything: Know When STEM Employers Are Hiring
- The hiring process for STEM-related roles, including internships and new grad positions, can vary depending on the company, role, and stage of the recruiting season. It often involves multiple interviews, including technical and behavioral rounds.
- Large tech companies typically start recruiting for internships and new grad positions in the fall (September-October), while some startups may recruit during the spring (January-March). Here’s a more comprehensive breakdown:
- Application Start: Start applying early in the fall, especially for large companies, as many have early deadlines in the fall.
- Phone Screen: Initial phone screens are common to assess basic technical skills.
- Technical Interviews: Expect multiple technical interviews, potentially involving coding challenges or problem-solving questions.
- On-Site Interviews: Unless the role is fully remote, some STEM roles may involve on-site interviews with multiple rounds, including engineering and management interviews.
- Offer: Offers can be extended from late October onwards, but the timeline can vary.
- Start Date: STEM internships often begin in the summer, while new grad positions may start in January or May/June.
- Career 360 gives you all the tools and resources you need to get your STEM application materials, like your resume, cover letter, and portfolio, ready before applying!
- Click on “Career Resources” and select the available filters, including “Resume, Cover Letter & Portfolio” tips!
- Career 360 also highlights where to look for STEM opportunities, including how to utilize SNHU’s #1 job board for students/alumni Handshake, and some of the top job boards for careers in tech!
STEM Career Outlook Data
STEM careers are experiencing robust growth and high demand, with a projected increase of 10.4% between 2023 and 2033. This growth is significantly faster than the overall job market, and STEM jobs are projected to offer higher median earnings. While the demand is high, there’s a skills gap that could lead to unfilled positions.
- The outlook for careers with a STEM degree differs depending on each worker’s education and location. Students and alumni should always research specific careers to learn more about their job outlook and potential salary on the Bureau of Labor Statistics website.
- DATA USA provides a expansive data report related to occupations in Computer Science, Engineering, and Science. Explore this report to view occupation types, salary, job locations, job industries, diversity in hiring, and more!
- Predictions For The Tech Job Market In 2025
- High Job Growth:
- STEM jobs are projected to grow by 10.4% between 2023 and 2033, more than three times the rate of non-STEM jobs.
- This growth is expected to add approximately 800,000 new STEM jobs over the next decade.
- Specific STEM fields like computer science, statistics, information security, and epidemiology are experiencing even faster growth.
- High Earnings:
- The median annual wage for STEM occupations is significantly higher than for non-STEM jobs, with a median wage of $101,650 compared to $46,680 for non-STEM jobs.
- Some STEM fields, like engineering, can offer even higher median salaries.
- Skills Gap and Demand:
- While there’s a strong demand for STEM professionals, a skills gap exists, potentially leading to millions of unfilled positions.
- By 2025, the U.S. is projected to need to fill around 3.5 million jobs, but a significant portion (2 million) may remain unfilled due to the skills gap.
- The Semiconductor Industry Association estimates a STEM shortage of 1.4 million technicians, computer scientists, and engineers by 2030.
- Underrepresentation:
- Women and minorities remain underrepresented in STEM occupations.
- Men comprise about 65% of STEM workers, while women make up approximately 35%.
- BIPOC professionals represent 8-9% of STEM jobs compared the general workforce.
How To Gain Relevant Experience For Your STEM Career Search
A lot of applicants think “How can I get more hands on experience for the job I am applying for?” There are in fact ways a wide variety of options and strategies you can utilize to gain experience in your chosen field, and demonstrate to future employers you have the experience and skills to be successful in the position you are applying to:
- Check out the How Students Can Gain Hands-on Relevant Experience Guide!
- Check out our available “How to Gain Experience to Land the Job you Want” video!
- Review our “Reframing The Narrative Guide”. This workbook helps career changers and job seekers identify and showcase transferable skills from any role.
- Idealist
- Volunteer.gov
- VolunteerMatch
- CatchAFire
- CitizenScience.gov
- Top Virtual Volunteer Opportunities
- Gamers Outreach
- International Game Developers Association Volunteers
- Games For Love
- American Red Cross – Charity Streaming
- Cyber Safety & Education Volunteers
- Cyber Volunteer Resource Center
- GitHub – Open source STEM projects looking for volunteers
- pyOpenSci
- Statistics Without Borders
- SNHU & Forage Job Simulations – Open to all majors. View the “Gain Experience” section on any Career 360 community page!
- SNHU LinkedIn Learning: “A Standalone Project” which allows you take on self-led and self-paced project-based courses—spanning AI, data science, data analytics, cybersecurity, and more. Search “standalone project”.
- SNHU Career 360 Internship Page
Other options:
- Coursera: Research guided projects to practice your tech skills
- Virtual Internships
- NASA Science Citizen Science Projects
- GitHub – Open source projects looking for volunteers
- UpForGrabs – Open source STEM projects
- FirstTimersOnly – Open source projects for coding newbies
- CodeTriage – Open source projects & open issues sent directly to your inbox
- CitizenScience.gov Catalog
- SciStarter – Project finder in the sciences
- Parkey Dewey Micro-Internships
- Hub Spot Micro-Internships
- Search job board sites like SNHU Handshake or Indeed for “Temporary, Part-time” opportunities
- US Dept of Labor – Seasonal Opportunities
- Federal Internship Portal
- ApprenticeshipUSA
- SNHU experiential learning courses are short-term educational professional development or training experience opportunity that allows students to explore professional development; certification preparation and/or professional practice experiences, completing a minimum of 60 hours in that experience:
- STEM undergraduate students and STEM graduate students have a handful of unique academic courses available for you explore while earning your degree!
- Be sure to talk with your academic advisor about these courses and how to register!
- Pathwaystoscience.org for STEM – Fellowships & scholarships
- Public Service Jobs Directory – Search for “fellowships”
- ProFellow
- AMA Fellowship Database
- Employers with Dedicated Early Career Programs
- SNHU has compiled a short list of early career development and leadership rotational programs with nationwide organizations
- The U.S. National Science Foundation Research Experiences
- Scholarship America – STEM
- Scholarship.com – STEM
Explore Careers By Your STEM Major
What Can I Do With This Major? features 100 major profiles with information on common jobs and career paths, types of employers that hire in the field, and strategies to maximize opportunities. Scroll to the bottom of each profile for links to professional associations, occupational outlook information, and job search resources.
CompTIA’s online available career resources and learning courses can help propel you towards a variety of tech careers!
Graduate-Level STEM Career Resources
While pursuing your master’s degree online at SNHU, there are a wide variety of career options specifically for graduate-level students to explore! Check out the resources and links provided!
- Pathways To Science for Graduate Students: Pathways To Science offers programs and resources for prospective and current STEM graduate students — including funding opportunities, internships, fellowships, trainings, and professional development programs.
- Review Indeed Career Guide: Master of Computer Science & IT Jobs To Consider
- Best Companies for Graduate Student Internships: View this short list of companies that often post graduate-level internship opportunities.
- Explore Non-Academic Research Internships for Graduate Students through the US National Science Foundation.
- Explore Graduate Internships and programs through the The National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL).
- The Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE) and U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) provide many opportunities for graduate students, recent graduates, and others looking for internships, fellowships, and similar programs with the federal government.
- Check out this short list below of companies that often post graduate-level internship opportunities:
| Company | Internship Focus |
|---|---|
| Amgen | R&D, Global Supply Chain |
| Intel | IT, Technical |
| BCG | Data Science, Consulting, Engineering |
| Microsoft | IT, Data Science, Management |
| JP Morgan | Finance, Management, Data Science |
| TikTok | Social Media, IT, Data Science |
| Dell | IT, Management, Finance |
| Walmart | MBA, Finance, Management, HR |
| CVS | Finance, Data Science, Management, Health |
| Walgreens | Corporate, HR, Health |
Mastering The Technical Interview: Tips & Strategies
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What makes a technical interview different from a normal job interview? It is a specialized and challenging process that will test your coding skills, personality, and problem-solving abilities. Typical steps that you may experience during the technical interview process include:
- Phone Screen: The purpose of this step is for the company to determine if you are qualified for the role and are a good fit. Most questions in this stage are behavioral based, but some questions may arise that will ask about your proficiency in certain programming languages, etc.
- Virtual Online Assessment or Coding Challenge: This is a homework-type challenge for you to complete typically by a certain deadline. Some companies use coding challenges to evaluate problem-solving skills and familiarity with programming languages.
- Final Assessment Interview: This stage involves more detailed technical questions with the hiring team, often including coding challenges, system design discussions, and questions about past projects: Whiteboarding: Candidates may be asked to solve problems on a whiteboard in real-time, demonstrating their thought process and problem-solving approach.
- Coding Exercises: Candidates might be asked to write code in real-time, either by hand or on a computer, to demonstrate their coding proficiency.
- Behavioral Questions: Questions about past projects, teamwork, and problem-solving strategies are also included to assess how a candidate works in a team.
- Cracking the Coding Interview: Cracking the Coding Interview, 6th Edition is here to help you through this process, teaching you what you need to know and enabling you to perform at your very best. *NOTE- Purchase of book is required.
- interviewing.io: Practice interviewing with engineers from Facebook, Google, and more anonymously!
- HackerRank Interview Preparation Kit: Includes interview tips, advice, and practice challenges.
- LeetCode: Explore and review top technical interview questions.
- SNHU SkillsFirst: Practice different interview styles including behavioral based interviews.
- freeCodeCamp: Non-profit organization that consists of an interactive learning web platform, an online community forum, chat rooms and more!
- Udemy: Search “coding interview” then click Filter->Price->Free
- Interview Cake: Courses to help you prepare to “win” the programming interview “game”!
- W3Schools: Course to help you learn to code
- LinkedIn Learning Classes:
