On behalf of the McDonough Career Center team, welcome to Georgetown’s McDonough School of Business. With a personalized approach to career development, we seek to empower individuals to build successful and meaningful careers. We look forward to working with you!
The McDonough Career Center takes a careful and comprehensive approach to your career path. Whether you are pivoting to a new industry or function or seeking advancement in your current field, we will guide you through the steps needed to take you from the early assessment of your career options through the negotiation of final offers.
Your coursework and the associated deliverable schedules complement each other so you can produce a reliable, career-marketing portfolio in time for important, career-advancing conversations with coaches and recruiters. Our Full-time MBA, Flex MBA, and Flex MBA Online students have similar job-search needs, on different timelines.
Full-time MBA students typically will execute an internship search and a full-time job search, both within an aggressive two-year time frame. Employer presentations begin in early September and MBA Career Fairs in mid-September. In order to be employer-ready for summer internships, Full-time students go through an accelerated Summer Career Course in the summer before their first year.
The Summer Career Course is an asynchronous, self-paced experience that will empower you to curate a career portfolio consisting of your top career values, target companies/organizations, an accomplishment-based resume, upgraded LinkedIn profile, storytelling/branding exercises, skills gap analysis, and a job search spreadsheet. You’ll be invited to join our Summer Career Course Canvas site, which houses all of our summer career content, by the end of May.
Upon the completion of the initial three deliverables (Career Blueprint, Accomplishment Record, McDonough Resume), incoming Full-time MBA students can schedule their first coaching conversation to begin designing their personalized job search plan. These coaching conversations will be held virtually.
After Opening Term, September will be filled with coaching appointments, employer events, student club meetings, the Career Fair Boot Camp, networking events, career days, etc. The McDonough Career Center will help you prioritize these opportunities to meet your career goals as laid out in your personalized job search plan.
Flex MBA and Flex MBA Online students may pursue a full-time job search in the fall of their final year of the program. MBA recruiters only engage students for post-MBA jobs in their final year because they want students to begin their job with the full MBA credential post-graduation in the May-August time frame. Since there’s no rush in the first two years of the program to recruit, the McDonough Career Center breaks up the Job Search Course for Flex students as follows:
The Summer Career Course is an asynchronous, self-paced experience that will empower you to curate a career portfolio consisting of your top career values, target companies/organizations, an accomplishment-based resume, upgraded LinkedIn profile, storytelling/branding exercises, skills gap analysis, and a job search spreadsheet. You’ll be invited to join our Summer Career Course Canvas site, which houses all of our summer career content, in June.
With Flex students working full-time, we encourage you to take the first semester off from career search activities to acclimate to your new work, life, and school balance. Flex students can access career coaching the spring of year one unless, of course, an urgent need arises sooner.
Flex students will have an official launch of the recruitment process during the spring of year two.