Career Development

• Career Advancement Workshop
  Our Career Advancement Workshop is designed to support you in meeting your individual career goals. The workshop covers these and other topics:
  • Job Search Techniques
  • Company research and resources
  • Networking and alumni panel
  • Mastering behavioral, case, and virtual interviews
  • Campus recruiting at scheller
  • Developing a high impact resume
  • Written communications
  • Personal branding and social media
  • Developing and communicating a personal positioning statement
  • Compensation and offer negotiations

• MBA Business Buzz: A special portal accessible to Georgia Tech Evening MBAs in their final year of the program, where students can post resumes, gather information about job opportunities, and register for information sessions and other recruiting events.
• Resume Books: Resumes of graduating MBA students seeking full-time employment and first-year students seeking internships are made available to companies that choose to recruit remotely.
• Career Leader: A career self-assessment tool, used by more than 260 top business schools and corporations worldwide to identify student career interests with sample MBA jobs, areas of strength, and helpful information on organizational fit.
• Optimal Interview System: A video-based interview preparation system allowing you to customize practice sessions and record responses to critique your performance.
• Practice Interviews: Interview with and receive immediate feedback from career services team members.
• MBA Conferences and Career Fairs: Career advisors and students participate in several Georgia Tech career fairs and the country's largest association and industry career fairs. Students are encouraged to attend the National MBA Career Fairs:
  • National Association of Women MBAs
  • National Black MBA Association & Prospanica
  • Reaching Out - LGBT MBA Conference
  • Asian MBA Conference
  • MBA Veterans Career Conference

More than 100 companies recruit Georgia Tech MBA students through the Jones MBA Career Center each year, representing functional areas such as leadership development, strategic and functional consulting, operations and supply chain, technology, business analytics, corporate finance, and marketing.

Companies that have recently recruited Georgia Tech MBA candidates:

Our career center staff has years of professional experience and understand industry dynamics. In addition to college recruiting expertise, advisors have a wide range of corporate experience, and have served in various career development, human resources, and management roles at industry-leading companies.

Because career advisors also manage relationships with companies recruiting MBAs, they know the skills recruiters are looking for and how to help you prepare for the MBA job market.

Jim Kranzusch, Executive Director

Jim Kranzusch 404.385.2900 Jim Kranzusch has served as the leader of the MBA Career Services office for more than nine years and brings 30 years of management experience to this role. Founder of ClientView LLC, a customer relationship management (CRM) consulting practice, he has held executive positions at IBM and other technology companies and been involved in two start-ups (one private and the other culminating in a successful IPO). Jim, who received his MS in Business Policy from Columbia University, represents the Georgia Tech Scheller College of Business to the business community, recruits companies, leads the career development class, and serves as a student advisor and mentor. He is actively involved as one of three members of the MBA Admissions Committee.

Kelley Broome, MBA Career Services Manager

Kelley Broome 404.894.2620 Kelley Broome joined the MBA Career Services team in April 2013. Her past experiences include 14 years of recruiting for university admissions and study abroad programs. Most recently she worked with graduate programs and admissions for Scheller College of Business. Kelley communicates with recruiting companies, executives, and students on MBA processes and procedures. She also manages the corporate job database and organizes information sessions, resume drops, MBA Career Services events, and on-campus interviews. She received her M.S. in College Student Personnel from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville.

Patrick Manigault, Corporate Relations Manager

Patrick Manigault 404.385.3294 Patrick Manigault joined the MBA Career Services team in July 2017 with a consulting and executive coaching background. Recently, for six years, Patrick served as manager of talent development and executive coach at Slalom Consulting. Previously, he spent almost seven years as a talent and organization consultant at Accenture. Patrick received his Ph.D. from Georgia Tech in physics after completing an M.S. at Hampton University and a B.A. from the University of Virginia, both in physics.

Caroline Player, Corporate Relations Manager

Caroline Player 404.894.1913 Caroline Player joined the MBA Career Services team in February 2016 after working in alumni career services at the Georgia Tech Alumni Association for nine years. She has also advised business and engineering students at the University of South Carolina Career Center. Caroline provides career coaching to the working professionals in the Evening MBA program as well as growing and maintaining relationships with employers that hire MBA students. Caroline has an undergraduate degree in Accounting and Business Administration: Finance. She also has a M.Ed. degree in Student Personnel Services from the University of South Carolina.

Lauren Porter, Corporate Relations Manager

Lauren Porter Lauren Porter joined the MBA Career Services team in July 2017 from AT&T in Dallas where she participated in the leadership development program after graduating with an MBA from the Terry College of Business at the University of Georgia. She completed rotations as a network services manager, a benefits manager, as well as a learning and development consultant. Lauren had eight years of business experience prior to her MBA, and her undergraduate degree is marketing from the University of Richmond.

Kristen Pratt, Corporate Relations Manager

Kristen Pratt 404.385.3103 Kristen Pratt joined Georgia Tech in 2017. After she graduated from Cornell, she spent three years with Procter & Gamble in the strategic sourcing area. Kristen then attended The Wharton School for her MBA. Upon graduation, she joined Bain & Company as a consultant in Atlanta for two years. After time with Turner Broadcasting as senior director of strategic planning, Kristen returned to Bain as director of consulting operations and human resources for eight years.

Kevin Stacia, Corporate Relations Manager

Kevin Stacia 404.385.4148 Kevin Stacia joined the MBA Career Services staff in February 2013, after having worked in Georgia Tech Career Services for three years as a Career Specialist. Prior to joining Georgia Tech, he worked for 20 years as a Human Resources professional with several high tech companies including Scientific Atlanta, HP, and Agilent Technologies. During his tenure at Agilent Technologies, Kevin served as the Global Campus Program Manager for their Life Sciences business unit. He received his MBA from Clark Atlanta University. Kevin is responsible for providing career coaching to MBA students and managing the relationships for a portfolio of companies seeking to recruit MBAs.

The Jones MBA Career Center is one of the best aspects of the program. I ended up with several amazing offers.

Dacia Tarleton-Bleeker

Business Consultant, Hewlett-Packard

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Dacia Tarleton-Bleeker

Business Consultant, Hewlett-Packard

Alumni, Evening MBA, Concentrations: IT, Marketing, Finance

Why did you choose to pursue an MBA?

With 10 years of experience working in various industries and roles within IT, I realized that as I grew in my career I needed an MBA to open up more opportunities. My plan was to use my MBA to balance out my technical background in order to leverage my analytical skills in not just technical roles, but also business roles.

Why did you choose the Georgia Tech MBA program over other MBA programs?

The network! One of the critical aspects of an MBA is the networking component. At Tech, not only do you to get a great education from phenomenal staff, but you also are able to build an amazing network. It’s really hard to do that if you are on a satellite campus.

Did you worked with the Jones MBA Career Center?

I utilized the Jones MBA Career Center by participating in the career workshops, on-campus and off-campus recruiting events, career advice, and coaching. It was a lot of work to get prepared for the job search, and it was even more work to actually do the job search, but I ended up with seven amazing offers. As a career changer, I must admit that I was very nervous, but I stuck with the plan that we formed in the career workshop, remained diligent in my search for opportunities, and kept in contact with career services if I ran into any issues. This was one of the best aspects of the program.