The Ford Career Center
Dedicated to making your job search more productive, our outstanding career services staff in the Ford Career Center (FCC) helps you develop the focus, skills, and contacts needed to achieve your professional goals.
In addition to coordinating thousands of interviews each year, our career team runs seminars in career exploration and job search skills; offers workshops on topics like case interviewing, resume writing, cover letters, and salary negotiation; brings in groups of executives to discuss various MBA career paths; and helps to coordinate an MBA Career Fair. All of our career advisors have extensive recruiting experience for such companies as Booz Allen Hamilton, Motorola, and Accenture, and students benefit from their first-hand knowledge.
The career services team also works closely with students to find rewarding and challenging internships for the summer months between the first and second year. Consequently, most of our students work in internships or on company projects that allow them to gain valuable insight about specific companies, industries or regions, enhancing their long-term career prospects.
Starting in 2004, McCombs began enhancing a program that corporate recruiters already place consistently among their top schools for new hires. McCombs heightened the integration of career services within the MBA program, increasing the role of career goals in our admissions process, pursuing greater alignment of the MBA program with recruiters, and hiring additional career advisors and a new MBA Career Services director. The school is also attracting a wider array of national and international recruiters while beefing up relations with key corporate partners.
Recruiters consistently place McCombs among their top ten schools for new hires. That's why hundreds of jobs come through the Ford Career Center each year. From setting up your first job interview on campus to facilitating your professional network across industries and continents, MBA Career Services doesn't just talk about exciting careers—it helps launch them.
Come by for a visit! You can also e-mail the FCC, or call if you have any questions at 512-471-7748.
