Career and Business Tips

Despite the growing trend of MBA students taking advantage of the summer break to start up businesses, most students still choose to apply for internships.

In today’s competitive job market, shooting out resumes everywhere will not land you a job. Targeting your job search is critical to the success of your job search. Focusing your job search in a particular industry will help you demonstrate fit with the position and the company and that alone will boost your chances of catching the recruiters’ attention and ultimately getting the job.

Job seekers are always looking for ways to make their interview prep more effective and time efficient. Actually, this is what motivated a group of Wharton students to create Jobjuice business reference and Interview prep tools over a decade ago.

Savvy job seekers know they have to take their job searches online to increase their chances of landing a job. However, many find that social media is not working for them and that’s probably because social media won’t do its magic if it’s not used fully and correctly.

Using Linkedin in your job search goes far beyond building your profile. There are thousands of MBA students looking for jobs on Linkedin so the ‘build it and they will come’ approach will most definitely not help you land a job, nor will it  help you stand out from the crowd.

One of the top challenges for MBA students wishing to land a consulting job is how to effectively tackle cases during the job interview. Doing so requires a method that will not only produce a sound solution to the case, but at the same time show the interviewer that the candidate is able to lay it out and present it in a thorough and professional manner.

If you’re an MBA student interested in consulting, you’re likely already prepared for the specialized type of interview you face after graduation: the case interview. Case interviews are often used for consulting management firms to gauge how well a job candidate thinks on their feet in a high pressure situation. Consulting interviews typically last between 15 and 20 minutes and involve cases on new markets or products, pricing or growth strategies, sales, profits, turnarounds, and much more.

For MBA graduates, landing a job after graduation isn’t much different from recent graduates in other fields. It involves standing out from the crowd and expertly marketing yourself to employers.

Career fairs are often the staple of many career services centers in universities across the country. Although there’s plenty of preparation advice available for job seekers attending career fairs and even for recruiters finding talent, there’s not much guidance for career services professionals on preparing.

MBA students know study groups can be hit or miss. Sometimes, your entire group comes motivated and ready to dive into your material, and you all accomplish a lot. Other times, study groups can simply be a waste of time.

Still, there’s something to be said about a group of students willing to work together on their own time for a common goal. Another way you can harness your group for a better purpose is by creating a job interview bootcamp.