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MBA Career Services

Assisting you in securing the right career and the right job at the right company.

  • Career Advice: Integrated career advising and academic advising resources to put you on the right path
  • Professional Development: Ensuring that you develop appropriate interpersonal skills, sophistication and business savvy that are critical to your success.
  • Job and Internship Placement: Securing a position that fits with your professional objective and strengths

Career Resources

Transformation Framework

  • Research shows that students who are most successful have one thing in common...they develop a clear career focus very early in their MBA program.
  • Having a clear focus allows students to fully utilize all of the excellent curricular and co-curricular components that the Katz MBA program has to offer.
  • The Katz Transformation Framework was created as a program roadmap that enables students to customize and tailor their MBA experience based upon their individual strengths and weaknesses. Used in coordination with the CareerLeader MBA assessment and regular appointments with your career and academic advisors, the Katz Transformation Framework guides you through what suggested courses and co-curricular activities will most benefit you and further allows you to individualize your MBA program.

World Class Career Advice

  • Concentration-specific career and job search plan advice, resume critiques, networking tips, mock interviews via unlimited access to our experienced & business savvy career services team and executives-in-residence
  • Mock interviews conducted by our corporate recruiting partners
  • Sponsorship and on-the-ground support for you at national MBA conferences and job fairs
  • Alumni and peer mentoring

Career Connection - Our Online Career Management Portal

Access for current students

  • Access to job postings, on-campus interviews, corporate presentations, events, conferences, job fairs ,recruiter contacts and alumni contacts
  • Access to all CSC-sponsored premium resources and databases, which include: CareerLeader, Vault, InterviewStream, Career Shift, Going Global, & USA Career Guide
  • Inclusion in the Katz MBA Résumé Directory, available online to our corporate partners. KATZPORT, a program that provides targeted instruction on immigration law and procedures to assist international students once an offer has been received for full-time employment in the United States.

Full-time MBA Career Services

Full-time MBA students are encouraged to work with Career Services as soon as they have joined the program.

  • If you are a student in the two-year MBA program or a joint- or dual- degree program, you may participate in one internship recruiting season and one full-time/permanent recruiting season before graduating.
  • If you are enrolled in the one-year MBA program, you may participate in one full-time/permanent recruiting season prior to graduation. One-year students are not eligible for internship recruiting.

Part-time MBA Career Services

All part-time MBA students are welcome to work with Career Services. Students who have completed less than 34 credits may meet with our Executives in Residence at any time for career advice or professional development. Contact James Miller to set up an appointment with Bill Slivka or Jim Woll.

Students who have completed 34 or more credits by the end of May of any given year, and expect to graduate in December, April, June, or August of the following academic year, may register to work with Career Services during the next academic year (from September until graduation). Part-time students are eligible to participate in one full-time/permanent recruiting season prior to graduation. Posting for MBA jobs is reserved for part-time students with more than 34 credits as they have approximately one year remaining prior to graduation and are qualified for open MBA positions.

Part-time students are included in the same recruiting cycle that hiring professionals focus on when seeking MBA graduates. Fall is the most robust time for on-campus recruiting. Adhering to this cycle ensures the greatest potential for success. It is important to note that part-time students are not eligible for internship recruiting.

Recruiting Timelines

Internship Recruiting Season
Many top companies/industries begin internship recruiting in the fall term and are looking to complete internship hiring for the following summer by the end of December. For other companies, internship recruiting typically occurs between January and March. Recruiters are usually looking to hire interns for summer (May through August) positions.

Full-time/Permanent Recruiting Season
For many top companies, the full-time/permanent recruiting cycle starts at the beginning of the fall term and is generally completed by December. Hiring for full-time positions that occurs between January and April is typically for “just in time” positions. Many top companies recruit at the national MBA conferences/job fairs. Katz Career Services sponsors booths and provides on-the-ground support for Katz MBAs at these conferences.

MBA conferences/job fairs
Katz Career Services sponsors booths and provides on-the-ground support for Katz MBAs at these conferences.