Full-time MBA Program
From Planning to Pursuit
While you are in the Berkeley MBA program, you will learn how to manage a successful career and prepare yourself to secure the job you want after graduation.
You may have well-defined career goals when you arrive at Haas, or you may want to test the waters using elective courses, club activities, and summer internships. One of the many roles of the Chetkovich Career Center is to assist you in thinking strategically about your career objectives, to offer you a structured approach to tackling today's job market.
As a first-year Berkeley MBA student, you will accelerate your preparations for the job search process during an intensive, two-day Career Management Conference in the fall. The purpose of the conference is to educate you on how to pursue a job successfully and how to set and manage career objectives now and in the future. "The conference is proof of how seriously we take the subject of careers for our students," says Abby Scott, Career Center executive director. "The regular first year MBA curriculum stops completely for two full days so that students can focus on mastering the career search process."
The Career Services Office also sponsors a variety of other programs, such as the Practitioner Training series, where professionals from firms such as JP Morgan, Goldman Sachs & Co., Bain, and McKinsey & Co. are invited into the classroom to train Berkeley MBA students how to apply their classroom skills to the real world. Haas' Expert Practical Training Premium programs bring outside groups such as Training the Street and Corporate Scenes to Haas for 1-2 day seminars and workshops. Students interested in real estate careers have the opportunity to be partnered with a practicing professional through the school's Analyzing Careers in Real Estate program.
The Career Center also offers counseling services at all stages of the career planning process. The career advising staff consists of professional counselors and second-year career coaches who together offer a broad range of training and business management experience.
Four senior-level account managers, each with different areas of industry expertise, manage thousands of on-campus interviews, hundreds of relationships with companies, and numerous career fairs and networking receptions. They also monitor a web-based job posting service that provides you with hundreds of targeted job postings each year. The Center also has an account manager based in New York City, focused on maximizing opportunities for Berkeley MBA students with financial services and other firms on the East Coast.
The Center organizes special visits by Berkeley MBA students to finance and high technology firms. You can visit Wall Street finance firms in New York, or travel on a "Tech Trek" to nearby Silicon Valley to learn about employment opportunities at firms such as Google, Yahoo!, BEA, and Electronic Arts.
The school's new, state-of-the-art student careers website, CareerNet, enables you to stay on top of the job market by providing instant access to career tools, as well as employer and event information. By continually improving and expanding career services such as CareerNet, The Haas School of Business continues to be committed to preparing Berkeley MBAs for success in today's competitive job market.
