Each year, we survey our candidate user base to learn more about their recruiting experiences and share some of the insights we’ve learned with our audience here. The 2019-2020 recruiting season was one of the most unusual in our survey’s history, with the COVID-19 pandemic causing massive disruption of normal recruiting processes and creating an...Continue reading
How to Prepare for a Virtual Recruiting Event
Last month, we published an article on Virtual Recruiting: Candidate Best Practices and COVID-19: Virtual Recruiting. In light of recent rises of work-from-home policies and transitions to online education for those pursing degrees, we’ve received interest in an overview on – what constitutes a virtual recruiting event and how to prepare for them. This article...Continue reading
Maximize Your Chances for a Management Consulting Career
By Stephanie Horn (Managing Consultant) and Matt Strickler (Senior Advisor), Consulting Career Academy at The MBA Exchange This fall, thousands of new MBA students will arrive on campus, excited to begin the next phase of their lives. Many individuals attend business school primarily to switch to a new career path. Furthermore, over 30% of incoming...Continue reading
Video Series Episode 1: Choosing the Right Industries to Recruit for
Sarah answers questions from an incoming student at Wharton with 5 years of experience in strategy consulting. She majored in economics in college and is interested in investment banking, private equity & tech.
Common Intern Mistakes To Avoid
MBA News & Around the Web Blog – #64 Each week we rifle through the world wide web to bring you news, blog posts and any other information we find relevant. Below you will find a few useful, interesting, or otherwise relevant links from around the world of career exploration, talent acquisition, and more. Got...
The First Semester MBA Internship Hunt
By Nick Banister, Georgia MBA Candidate Class of 2019 After months of preparation beginning well before classes even started, I was determined and ready to land a brand management internship at the upcoming National Black MBA Association (NBMBAA) Conference in Philadelphia. I wasn’t 100% sold on marketing or brand management, but I knew that this...Continue reading
Building a Target List
<<Previous: Getting Started What Matters to You? Too many times we’ve seen students get caught up in recruiting for companies or roles they’re not a good fit for, leading to their not receiving any offers and having to start over from square or starting a job they’re miserable in. Obviously you’re a smart cookie and...Continue reading
First Year MBAs Share Their First Semester Recruiting Experiences
For those newly admitted MBAs just starting to plan through their first semester of graduate business school, it can be hard to know what to expect. The transition back to academia after several years in the professional working world guarantees a certain amount of culture shock, and the typical MBA experience bears little resemblance to...Continue reading
First Year MBAs Share Their First Semester Recruiting Experiences
For those newly admitted MBAs just starting to plan through their first semester of graduate business school, it can be hard to know what to expect. The transition back to academia after several years in the professional working world guarantees a certain amount of culture shock, and the typical MBA experience bears little resemblance to...Continue reading
The MBA Internship Search: A Timeline
The specific chronology of your job search will depend on your school, your target industry, and the firms you pursue within that industry. But as a general rule, the more MBA interns a company hires, the earlier its recruiting timeline. Students interested in consulting and financial services roles should be ready to start recruiting within...Continue reading