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The Career Management Process

Self-Assessment

Self-assessment is a critical foundation allowing students to understand preferences, interests, and how to best utilize experience/facets. It provides students with helpful information on a good career "fit". From this knowledge, students can then market themselves effectively.

Career Summit

The next step in the assessment process is to match student skills, interests and values to the opportunities that exist in the marketplace. The 3 day-long Career Summit consists of career overviews, workshops, resume reviews, and panels from entertainment to VC, saving MBAs about 50+ hours of "research" time and is the ideal opportunity to expand existing knowledge of particular industries or functions. This event includes panels of speakers from a variety of industries and functional areas who discuss the details of their positions.  Panels have included:

• Banking/Private Client Services/Sales & Trading
• Consulting
• Entertainment/ Communications
• Hedge Funds/ Investment Management
• Internet/ E-Commerce
• Private Equity/ LBO
• Retail/ Consumer Marketing
• Social Enterprise
• Strategic Planning/ Business Development
• Technology

Resume Reviews

We are pleased to offer every student in the class a personalized consultation with a member of the senior staff. After attending a resume writing workshop and taking the first "pass" at a new Stanford GSB resume, students are encouraged to attend a resume review appointment to further develop their resumes. These resumes are used for class resume books, for on-campus recruiting, and for targeted job searches.

CMC Industry Practice Interviews

This program is intended to provide extra preparation and is considered a "rehearsal" for the real thing. For second years, actual recruiters in the consulting field—many of whom are alumni—and for first years, the second-year students graciously volunteer their time to conduct mock interviews. Mock interviews are an excellent way to practice interviewing skills with an expert from a targeted function or industry.

Targeted Job Search

Actually, every job search is targeted, but we use this to differentiate searches that rely less on on-campus interviews and more on networking and other resources.

Although more than 90% of the students use on-campus recruiting, the majority of GSB MBAs follow through with some aspects of a targeted search. Each student plan will be individualized and may include using all of the CMC resources in varying degrees. For example, some students use on-campus recruiting heavily, and conduct a targeted job search with those firms that don't recruit with us. Others use job posting opportunities and network with alumni in a geographic area or industry. Others use the fairs we co-sponsor with key student clubs.