August –
September
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Attend Ford
Career Center Orientation before classes begin
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Log onto
eRecruiting, register, and upload your resume as soon as possible to
begin RSVP for company receptions.
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Update your
resume with a Career Counselor and/or Peer Advisor.
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Identify
values, interests, personality and skills.
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Attend FCC
Career Panels to learn about various career options.
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On-campus
recruiting process begins by September.
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Eyes on Texas
Career Fair.
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The Marketing
Challenge.
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October
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Determine an
initial career direction (of course, it can be changed at any time)
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RSVP and
ATTEND open company receptions in your career interest are to learn
about companies, industries, and functions.
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Submit your
resume for the Resume Book to be sent to recruiting companies. Make
sure your resume fits the required guidelines – meet with a
counselor for best results.
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Attend FCC
presentations on various job search issues, e.g. interviewing,
researching companies, conducting job searches independently of the
FCC, and networking.
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Examine and
learn to use the resources in the Graduate Career Library and the
business reference section of the Perry-Castaneda Library (PCL).
Lexis-Nexis is available in the MBA computer lab.
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Identify UT
faculty, second year students, and B-School alumni who have contacts
in your areas of interest. Set up appointments to meet with faculty
in your area of interest to discuss career options. Make sure FCC
staff knows who you are and what you want.
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November
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Begin working
on your GRID developing your interviewing stories. Consult your
mentor on what stories to use for different situations. Focus on
SITUATION – ACTION – RESULT.
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Having
identified potential companies and contacts, write cover letters to
arrange semester break informational interviews. Take your cover
letters to a counselor for feedback.
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Follow up your
cover letters with phone calls to arrange informational interviews.
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Do a mock
interview with a FCC counselor.
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Winter Break
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Go on as many
informational interviews as your can set up!
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Perfect your
“grid” stories and practice them with family and/or friends.
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January – March
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Majority of
intern interviews occur during this time. Use eRecruiting
extensively during this time. Attend as many receptions as possible.
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Make sure your
practice interviewing by doing mock interviews with the FCC and/or
with the Marketing Network.
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April – May
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Submit resume
to the FCC to be included in the 2nd Year MBA/MPA resume
book.
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If you have
not been offered a summer internship position, explore other options
that will give you similar experience, e.g. a project through a
professor. A FCC counselor can help you with this.
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If you have a
summer internship, fill out the summer internship survey and turn
into the FCC.
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Update your
information in eRecruiting.
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Summer Between First &
Second Years
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Use the summer
to conduct in-depth research of major functions, industries and
companies open to MBAs.
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Develop a
tow-tiered job search strategy (on-campus recruiting and independent
job search) to implement during the second year.
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Reevaluate and
update self-assessment of interests, values, personality and skills.
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Evaluate your
internship or independent project as the summer ends. Consider the
contribution you made to the company, and your continuing interest
in the industry and in marketing.
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First Semester, Second Year
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Update your
resume in eRecruiting to include summer experience.
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Keep track of
which companies are coming, when and at what time.
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Continue your
independent job search.
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Second Semester, Second Year
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Don’t panic if
you don’t have a job yet. Contrary to popular belief, many jobs are
secured in the last semester. Talk with faculty again. Continue to
contact alumni and friends, network, network, network. Work closely
with FCC counselors.
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Complete a
Confidential Exit Survey before you graduate. This will help both
the FCC statistics and the ones who are still looking. |