Illinois Tech Career Services · Our Team

Meet Your Success Partners

One team connecting students, alumni, employers, and community — turning Illinois Tech ambition into career impact.

Every great career is a team effort. Career Services is the connective tissue of the Illinois Tech professional community — linking students, alumni, faculty, employers, and community partners so that ambition meets opportunity, and talent becomes impact.

How We Help

Who We Work With

Students & Alumni

Personalized coaching, resume and interview prep, salary negotiation, and job-search strategy — built around your goals and your discipline, from first internship to executive move.

Employers & Partners

Recruiting, internships, career fairs, and partnerships that connect your team to Illinois Tech’s engineers, designers, scientists, and business leaders.

Faculty & Community

Collaboration with faculty, industry, and civic partners to expand opportunity and strengthen Chicago’s innovation economy.

Our Expertise

From first-year students to doctoral candidates, we bring discipline-deep guidance across engineering, computing, architecture, business, science, and law — and we know exactly what employers look for in an Illinois Tech graduate. Wherever you are in your career, we have the connections and strategy to move you forward.

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BJ Engelhardt

Executive Director, Career Services

BJ serves as Senior Director for Career Services. He has worked at Illinois Tech since 2007 in both enrollment management/recruiting roles and Career Services. In his current role, BJ manages the day-to-day activities of Career Services and assists in determining the strategic direction for the office to most effectively engage students, employers, and alumni to ensure that our students are successful in the first step of their career journey.  This also includes the management and development of the Elevate program and Illinois Tech’s Cooperative Education and Internship program.  BJ is a proud alumnus of the Illinois Tech’s Stuart School of Business, receiving his Master of Science in Marketing Analytics and Communication in 2014.