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February 2005 New Online Resource Boosts Job SearchMention the MBA Career Management Center and you think on-campus recruiting. True, at least once in their Business School years, most MBA students dash into the dressing room between classes to don suits and dress shoes in order to wow visiting recruiters. But only 40 percent of them ultimately take jobs with the companies that recruit on campus. The remaining students, looking for a smaller firm or a specific niche, enlist the career center’s help in what is called an independent tailored job search. Until recently the search has been quite independent. When Marie Mookini, associate director for corporate outreach, arrived at the center two years ago, its chief tool for independent searches was a Rolodex, she says. But in the past two years, thanks to the financial contribution of the MBA Class of 2003, the technical assistance of the School’s information technology folks, and the unstinting efforts of the career center staff, the old Rolodex is at last ready to meet the new century. Or at least depart the old one with grace. By fall quarter 2004, the new, digitized CareerNet online database held records for 1,800 companies and listed 3,200 contacts among them. Students enter CareerNet through the student intranet site, accessing companies of interest, as well as names of contacts willing to advise and support them in their respective firm’s recruiting process. IT staff are working on a new format to bring information into the site from other sources, like the alumni database and student facebook. Mookini is adding information culled from her travels to companies far and wide. “This enhanced version of CareerNet will highlight qualitative information about the firm and its people—information gained from conversations we’ve had with them and insights provided by our students who worked for these firms,” Mookini says. “It’s an additional, and proprietary, job search resource for students, connecting outstanding companies with outstanding students—which is, incidentally, one of the critical goals of the MBA Career Management Center.” |
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