Full-time MBA Career Services & Employment Report | Georgia Tech

Make a career switch, ramp up your trajectory, or start a new business venture. Wherever you're headed, the Jones MBA Career Center helps you get there.

Our mission is to help our students represent their best selves to the employment world and to provide as many employment opportunities to them as possible.

Rankings & Stats

Full-time MBA Career Services (Global)
The Financial Times, 2022

97%

Employment at 3 Months Post-Graduation

$123,843

Average Base Salary

$25,066

Average Signing Bonus

The Jones MBA Career Center is consistently ranked in the top 5 MBA Career Services offices globally because of the employment success our students achieve. We are dedicated to helping you:

Develop a career strategy, identify job search targets, and explore MBA career options.
Prepare for the interview process and MBA job market.
Identify MBA recruitment opportunities for both summer internship and post-graduate employment.

Incoming students are assigned to a career advisor over the summer before their first year. This advisor will advise them throughout the two-year program, including getting to know them personally and helping them develop an MBA career search strategy that supports their specific desire and leverages their individual strengths.

Our career center team has decades of professional experience and understands industry dynamics. Because our career professionals advise students and also manage relationships with MBA employer recruitment teams, they know the skills recruiters are looking for and how to help students represent their best selves and prepare for success in a competitive job market.

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Georgia Tech MBA Career Outcomes

Our MBAs achieve some of the highest job employment figures in the nation for post-graduation, full-time positions, and paid internships for first-year MBAs. Read more about our students’ success and learn about our employer relationships in our MBA Employment Report.

Full-time MBA Career Development Resources

Planning your career search is a process of continual discovery. We provide a variety of resources to help you position your skills for summer internships and second-year full-time job searches.

Career Development Workshops

Our Career Development Workshop is a weeklong orientation prior to the start of school that is designed to help you get a head start on your summer internship and post-graduate job searches. Additionally, throughout the school year, you’ll regularly meet for workshops with your peers and career center staff where you will learn key skills including:

Developing and applying an effective job search strategy
Crafting and communicating your story
Developing a high-impact resume
Personal branding and social media
Preparing for competitive interviews and case interviews
Networking at national job fairs

Summer Internships

Between the first and second years of the MBA program, we encourage you to participate in a summer internship. Internships provide an opportunity to apply the managerial theories you learned in your first year while gaining valuable work experience and building your resume. Internships have also led to many permanent positions for our students.

More than 100 companies recruit MBAs through the Jones MBA Career Center each year, and many of them use summer internships as their primary source for MBA full-time hires. In a typical year, 100% of our students have paid MBA internships. Opportunities are available nationwide across a wide range of functional areas, industries, and companies.

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 following national MBA career fairs:

National Black MBA Association Conference
Reaching Out – LGBT+ MBA Conference
MBA Veterans Career Conference

Additional Resources

Take advantage of the many resources and programming opportunities we provide, like case interview and product management interview workshops, alumni and guest speakers, Career Leader—a self-assessment tool used by more than 260 top business schools to identify student career interests with job function, areas of strength, and helpful information on organizational fit. You also may practice your interviewing skills and receive immediate feedback from your career advisor as you prepare for employer engagement.

Alumni Career Resources

Career support continues long after you graduate. MBA Career services as an alum include:

JacketNet Jobs, a job search database exclusively for Georgia Tech alumni
Career advice and workshops
Georgia Tech Alumni Association LinkedIn group with 37K+ members and growing
Numerous networks and clubs around the world

MBA Career Center Staff

The Jones MBA Career Center advisors work with MBA students to turn their dreams into reality. The MBA career coaches are keenly aware of the changing interests of job-seeking MBA candidates and the evolving needs of MBA employers.

Full-time MBA Summer Internships

Put your skills to the test, start building a professional network, and get a head start on full-time job opportunities with summer internships specifically for MBA students.

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Hire Our Students

Our mix of MBAs from technical and non-technical backgrounds provides employers with a diverse pool of strong candidates.