Terry MBA students are required to demonstrate that they can meet the program's high standards for professionalism and interview readiness prior to gaining access to the Career Management Center's carefully nurtured corporate and alumni relationships. The CMC enables students to improve their career management and interviewing skills through a variety of activities and seminars, as follows:
Once students have met the MBA program standards for interview readiness, they gain access to a rich array of recruiting services and networks. Those include:
These sessions focus on a specific skill, its practice and/or strategic connection to the job search process and are delivered by an outside expert or a Stanton Chase consultant. Ten seminars are offered throughout the year; students are required to attend seven out of the ten. Below is a typical slate of CMC seminars:
Conducted by CMC staff or Stanton Chase career consultants, these meetings are an opportunity for students to obtain one-on-one professional input on their resume and how to strategically customize it for career targets.
A videotaped mock interview and feedback session with a Stanton Chase career consultant is required in the fall, but during spring semester students have additional opportunities to do mock interviews with recruiters and alumni and receive feedback. In a mock interview, a student is challenged to speak knowledgeably about self in terms of strengths, weaknesses, leadership style, career vision, work experience, and targeted industry, function and company.
The CMC acts in an advisory role to assist the different MBA business clubs with hosting alumni career panels that focus on a particular industry or functional area. The student clubs host panels either on campus or at Terry's Executive Education Conference Center in Atlanta.
Often the first step in the on-campus recruiting process, a resume drop bundles resumes submitted by interested MBA students and sends them to the recruiter contact. As follow up, the recruiter may choose to schedule interviews through the CMC on campus or to contact students individually to arrange an interview.
Designed to provide information about a company's opportunities, information sessions are typically scheduled several weeks prior to the deadline for a resume drop or on-campus interview schedule and are held in the evening during the fall and spring recruiting season.
Companies pre-select candidates to fill an interview schedule. Interviews are held in the interview suites in Brooks Hall or at the Terry Executive Education Center in Atlanta.
The CMC staff encourage students to meet with them individually to discuss their unique needs, to make connections with recruiters, alumni, faculty, or classmates who can assist them in reaching their career objective, or to simply ask questions about any aspect of the job search process.
Terry alumni can be found all over the world - they are over 50,000 strong. Alumni develop a mutually beneficial lifetime relationship with the school. Terry offers its graduates connectivity on site, off site and on-line, with a unique combination of products, programs and people.
From the Terry Third Thursday events held at the Executive Education Center in Buckhead, to the Terry Sound Business podcast journal to the Homecoming tailgate and the annual MBA student/alumni golf tournament, alumni participation is essential as Terry graduates gain marketability, credibility and visibility.
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