MBA Career Development

Full-time MBAs benefit from the personal attention of the program including a 27:1 student to advisor ratio. You will be assigned to a corporate relations manager who will advise you throughout the two-year program. Your advisor will get to know you personally, and help you develop an MBA career placement strategy to leverage your individual strengths.

Our career center staff has years of professional experience and understands industry dynamics. Because our corporate relations managers advise students and also manage relationships with companies' MBA recruitment teams, they know the skills recruiters are looking for and how to help you prepare for the MBA job market with MBA career options.

Planning your career path is a process of continual discovery. We provide a variety of resources to help you position your skills for paid summer internships and permanent employment. You'll learn job search skills that you'll use throughout your career.

• Career Development Workshops
  Designed to help you get a head start on your summer internship and permanent job searches, you'll learn key skills including:
  • Developing and applying an effective job search strategy
  • Networking
  • Communicating your story
  • Developing a high-impact resume
  • Personal branding and social media
  • Preparing for competitive interviews and case interviews
  • Working national job fairs
• MBA Business Buzz: A special job board only accessible to Georgia Tech MBAs, where students can post resumes, gather information about job/internship opportunities, apply for jobs and internships, 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.
• CareerLeader: 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 professionals from our team.
• 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 Black MBA Association Conference
  • Reaching Out - LGBT MBA Conference
  • MBA Veterans Career Conference
• Lifetime Career Coaching:  Career support continues long after you graduate. Access to Georgia Tech Alumni Career Services includes:
  
  • JacketNet Jobs, a job search database exclusively for Georgia Tech alumni
  • Annual alumni career fair, where you'll meet more than 100 top employers
  • Career advice and workshops
  • Georgia Tech Alumni Linkedin group with 35K+ members and growing
  • Numerous networks and clubs around the world

In addition to college recruiting expertise, Georgia Tech's MBA Career Services team has a wide range of corporate experience. Our MBA career development team members have served in various career development, human resources, and management roles at industry-leading companies.

We consistently rank a top 10 MBA program in the nation for MBA career placement as a result of the hard work of our MBAs on their job search combined with the corporate experience of our career services staff.

MBA Class of 2019 Compensation Summary

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Top Hiring Companies - Full-time positions

• Delta Air Lines
• Amazon
• Deloitte
• Accenture
• AT&T
• Coca-Cola
• Nike
• PwC
• VMware

Top Hiring Companies - Internships

• Delta Air Lines
• Bank of America
• Deloitte
• AlixPartners
• Cognizant
• The Home Depot
• UPS
• Western Digital

A Broad Range of Career Opportunities

Georgia Tech's MBA students are strong and successful competitors in regional and national job markets. Our students are recruited by firms from a broad range of industries for positions that offer opportunities for professional and personal growth and advancement.

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:

The MBA Career Center was one of the biggest reasons why I chose Georgia Tech for my MBA! The one-on-one attention you receive in your career search is something you won't get in most other MBA programs.

Brooke Adams

Internship: Operations Analysis & Performance (OAP) Intern, Delta Air Lines

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Brooke Adams

Internship: Operations Analysis & Performance (OAP) Intern, Delta Air Lines

Alumni, Full-time MBA, Concentrations: Operations, Sustainability

What are the advantages of living in Atlanta while pursuing your MBA?

Atlanta is home to so many large companies, I think it is shocking to people not from here when they learn how many companies have headquarters in the metro Atlanta area. Not only is this favorable for recruiting, it also gives us the opportunity to connect with many companies through class visits, projects, and networking events. Aside from the excellent job prospects, Atlanta has something for everyone. There are a ton of great restaurants, museums, and festivals that you will quickly wonder where all your free time went. Also, not having to deal with snow is pretty great.

What are some opportunities outside the classroom to gain leadership experience?

There are so many ways to get involved as a leader, and more than half of our class holds a leadership position in some form! You can serve as an elected leader for clubs or committees or lead your practicum groups as you work on a real-world project with local businesses. All the leadership opportunities give you the ability to practice your leadership skills in a small scale and safe environment, while also getting to network with professionals and alumni.

What's your favorite thing about the program?

You can tailor this program to get whatever you want out of it. I've gotten to work on teams with people with very diverse backgrounds, play on intramural teams, serve as a student leader through GBC, and travel to conferences across the country — and I'm only halfway done with the program! I knew I wanted to get more involved my second time around at Georgia Tech, and I don't think a day goes by where I am not attending a lunch and learn, meeting for a case competition, or attending one of our many social events.

What is the value of the program to you?

The ROI is so high at Georgia Tech, I knew I could easily make up the cost in a few years. The manageable tuition costs, opportunities for funding, and high average starting salaries made the decision to take two years off of work a very wise investment in my career.