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Business Leader Offers Career Development Advice for Mays Students
Philip Choyce, a business leader with more than 25 years in the energy industry, recently sat down to discuss career development advice with a group of students at Texas A&M University – Mays Business School.
Ivey Receives Globally Recognized Award for Innovative Career Management
Career management programming at Western University’s Ivey Business School was recently recognized on the global stage. Long considered one of the best programs in Canada, Ivey’s Career Management group received the bronze medal in Nurturing Employability at the Wharton-QS Stars ReImagine Education Awards. The award recognized Ivey’s innovation, forward thinking and progressive career management programming. Continue reading…
Library Collection to Recognize Gupta Professor’s Extensive Career in Risk Management and Reinsurance
A professor at the University of Dallas’ Satish and Yasmin Gupta College of Business library has recently been honored for his contribution to the field of risk management and reinsurance.
Ivey Partners with Olympic Athletes for Career Management
When it comes to career management, Western University’s Ivey Business School is an expert. That’s why they’ve partnered with the Canadian Olympic Committee (COC) to help address Olympic athletes’ concerns about their life after athletics. Many Olympians have questions about what they’re going to do for their career and how they’re going to support themselves financially. That’s why the Game Plan initiative for Canadian Olympians was started. Continue reading…
New Online Program for Career Development Increases Employment Opportunities at Hankamer School of Business
In addition to construction of the new Paul L. Foster Campus for Business and Innovation, students at Baylor University’s Hankamer School of Business are receiving a new program created by the Office of Career Management. The new program, called “Handshake”, will be a modern career services management platform offered only to students at the business school.
Suffolk Holds Women’s Career Lab Conference
The Center for Innovation and Change Leadership at Suffolk University and the CIO Executive Council will co-host a Women’s Career Lab Conference this October. The event will also be sponsored by the Sawyer Business School. The conference, titled “Refine Your Power: Live, Work, Play on Your Terms” will bring together female business leaders for an all day conference highlighting strategies for reaching work-life-family balance. More than 100 women, from a variety of leadership levels and organizations are expected to attend the conference
Suffolk Professor of Management and Center for Innovation and Change Leadership Associate Director, Jodi Detjen will facilitate the conference with her co-author Kelly Watson. The two published the book The Orange Line: A Woman’s Guide to Integrating Career, Family and Life. The event will be held on October 15, from 7:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. at the Suffolk campus in Boston. Conference discussions will examine the ways in which women have moved past career limiting assumptions in relation to family and career integration.
SFSU College of Business Professor Co-Authors Article on Career Disasters
San Francisco State University College of Business Professor of Management Mitchell Marks co-authored an article about how people respond to career disasters, according to a press release from the school. The article appeared on June 18 in the Harvard Business Review. The article was also co-authored by Phillip Mirvis, organizational leader and senior fellow at Boston College’s Center for Corporate Citizenship and Ron Ashkenas, managing partner of Schaffer Consulting.
The authors worked with Tim Hall, a leading expert in careers at Boston University’s Questrom School of Business, to analyze data about how managers said they recovered from career disasters. They identified three distinct patterns that emerged when people responded to career disasters. Some stewed over their loss and got lost in an endless cycle of self-justification. Others attempted to work through their setbacks but struggled to adapt to the new realities they faced. Almost half of respondents focused on learning from their loss through “identity work,” where one thinks about the role they play, sought advice and opinions from others, and took steps to care for themselves. The last group was most successful in moving past their career disaster.
While the other groups suffered from their inability to accept responsibility or dwelling on past failures, those who learned from their loss benefited from a new outlook on their life and career. Adaptability was one facet of a manager’s recovery. Seeking out peers’ opinions and reflecting upon their own actions led these managers see how they could have done better and improve upon it in the future. Another important part of recovery was evaluating your “self-system,” or your self-image in relation to their environment. Careful thought and reflection in both these categories led managers to success moving on with their careers and ultimately viewing their career disaster as a positive step forward.
Kellstadt Graduate School of Business Releases Career Outlook Survey
According to results of DePaul University’s Class of 2014 career outlook survey and recruiting activity on campus, 86 percent of graduates who received their master’s degree from the Kellstadt Graduate School of Business are either employed or enrolled in continuing education. Employment or enrollment in continuing education are considered successful career outcomes, according to National Association of Colleges and Employers, which charts college graduate employment statistics nationwide. Continue reading…
Carey Assistant Professor Receives Early-Career Award
Mario Macis, an assistant professor at Johns Hopkins University’s Carey Business School, was recently named a recipient of the Catalyst Award at Johns Hopkins. The award provides up to $75,000 to JHU early-career faculty so they can pursue research or independent works. The Catalyst Awards program was established early this year of part of Johns Hopkins’ three-year, $15 million commitment to faculty-led research. Continue reading…
Simmons Professor Holds Webinar on How MBA Helped Her Career
Simmons School of Management professor Mary Finlay, will be hosting a webinar on June 10 to share how she used her Simmons MBA to further her career in the healthcare industry. Professor Finlay has served as the Deputy Chief Information Officer of Partners HealthCare System, Inc. and the Chief Information Officer of Brigham and Women’s Hospital. Those interested in participating in the webinar can complete a registration form online. The webinar will begin at noon and last for one hour.
Professor Finlay teaches classes in Healthcare IT Management, Project Management and Strategic Thinking and Analytical Decision Making. She also teaches at the Harvard School of Public Health’s certificate programs for project management and Leadership Strategies for Information Technology. She also currently serves on the IT Subcommittee of the Board for UMASS Memorial Medical Center and the board of YearUp, an organization that helps to provide young adults with support to help them reach their potential.
Argyros Career Services Moves to New Building
Argyros Career Services at the Argyros School of Business has moved into a new, state-of-the-art career center building. The new building opened on the first day of the spring semester. With the new space, career services will be able to offer Argyros students more services as well as expand services to the entire Chapman University population.
The new career center building features new dedicated interview rooms, each equipped with a computer, telephone, flat screen TV and a high quality video camera. The career services staff is still working to use the interview space to expand on-campus interviewing to help Argyros students with interview preparation for internships and full-time employment.
Booth Internships Help Shape Careers
Internships are important in trying to get ahead with an MBA degree. With an internship through the Booth School of Business, Full-Time MBAs get a chance to apply their classroom knowledge to real business challenges, while companies benefit from new, analytical, creative thinkers who bring new, scholarly approaches to an industry. Oftentimes, MBA interns are also candidates for full-time positions after graduation. Continue reading…
McDonough Global Career Conference and Expo Allows to Students to Connect With International Executives
The fourth annual Global Career Conference and Expo (GCCE) at Georgetown’s McDonough School of Business did its part to help top MBA employers from around the world connect with graduating students eager to work abroad and across cultures. Hosted by the McDonough School of Business and Barcelona’s ESADE Business School, this year’s expo attracted students from 27 top business schools from around the country as well as representatives from 20 multi-national corporations.
SJU Holds Second Annual Career Expo
Over 2,100 St. John’s students and young alumni met with representatives from nearly 150 prospective employers at the second annual St. John’s University Career Expo and Academic Internship Fair. The fair was held on October 2 at the Taffner Field House on the Queens, NY, campus.
University Career Services organized the event with the support of the College of Professional Studies, The Peter J. Tobin College of Business, St. John’s College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, The School of Education, and the College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences.
REGISTER: Kogod’s Career-Con 2014
MBA students should always be looking to either explore new career options or secure a position in the field of their dreams. At the Kogod School of Business’ Career-Con, students will be able to find all the necessary resources to create a personal career arsenal in one day.
Taking place on Saturday, September 6 from 10:00 a.m. – 3:00 p.m., attendees get to select which of the convention’s five sessions best suits them and join prominent employers and successful alums who will share their expertise and advice. Continue reading…
NYU Stern grad’s story highlights changing nature of MBA careers
NYU Stern ’14 MBA Kelly Goldston shares with Crain’s New York Business her experience moving into the NYC tech start-up space, as opposed to taking the traditional post-MBA banking or consulting route. Instead of finding a job in the traditional Wall Street sector, even though the industry continues to recover, she was recruited by a tech company before she graduated and took a position with the e-commerce site Quidsi, an Amazon company. Her story is indicative of a trend happening across the city, where newly graduated MBAs are finding a welcome in the startup scene. Recruits, in turn, are drawn to the innovations and possibilities of the field. According to Columbia Business School ’14 MBA Gwyn Welles, who found a position with Google working at the YouTube Next Lab, “I knew I wanted to work at the intersection of media and technology”. Continue reading…
SFSU Receives $60,000 to Fund Career Services Assessment
San Francisco State University College of Business recently announced that the Eustace-Kwan Foundation made a donation to the school to support Career Planning and Development services. The Eustace-Kwan Foundation supports educational initiatives in the Bay Area. The College of Business will use the donation to hire a consultant with industry experience to create a business plan for the college’s career development programs.
The consultant will begin with a market assessment to determine what skills companies need in new recruits, and then create programs that will ensure that SFSU graduates can meet the needs of the companies. The new programs may include professional presence and awareness training, job search servces, consulting projects, job readiness and retention programming, or other activities. The consultant will perform research, develop related recommendations, and set up a test group to evaluate the benefits of changes to the program.
Linda Oubre, the Dean of the College of Business, said in a statement: “As part of our year-long curriculum renewal study of our graduate programs, we have determined that there is a great need to develop programs that connect the educational experience in the classroom with the career development needs of our students, as well as the hiring needs of our corporate partners. The Eustace-Kwan gift gives us the means to strategically develop programs and initiatives that build upon classroom experience by making our business graduates career-ready.”
Stanford Names New Career Director
Maeve Richard has been named assistant dean and director of the Stanford Graduate School of Business’ Career Management Center. She has served as a career adviser since July 2013.
Before working in career services, Richard had a career in finance at for profit and nonprofit companies in several different industries, including apparel, banking, education, investment management, and technology. She has served as the chief financial and operating officer of The Stupski Foundation, chief financial officer for Arteris Inc., vice president and treasurer for McAfee Inc., and vice president at J.P. Morgan. She has also held management positions at Levi Strauss & Co. and Sun Microsystems.
Garth Saloner, the Phillip H. Knight Professor and Dean of Stanford Graduate School of Business, believes that Richard’s extensive industry experience is an asset for Stanford’s Career Management Center. He said “we are delighted to have someone with Maeve’s depth of industry experience at the helm of our Career Management Center. As someone who made successful pivots in her own career, she is uniquely equipped to guide students to find their professional path in new and fulfilling ways.”
In her new post, Richard plans to determine ways to improve the breath and quality of information about the implications of career choices, career paths, and lifetime earnings so that Stanford students will be able to make informed choices about their futures. She also plans to expand the center’s support for alumni who are interested in changing careers. She says: “the goal is to enable our students–as well as alumni–to make the highest-quality career decisions and to equip them wisely at pivotal points in their professional lives.”
