The Definitive Guide to the MBA Internship Interview
For MBAs, an internship is everything.
It’s a real, relevant working experience where you get to put all that knowledge you’ve gained to the test. If you perform well at your internship and impress management, there’s a great chance you’ll be able to land an inside track at your first post-MBA job.
According to the National Association of Colleges and Employers Experiential Education Survey, employers extended job offers to nearly 70 percent of their interns. Continue reading…
Stuart School of Business and Chicago Innovation Awards Create New Accelerated MBA
Illinois Institute of Technology’s Stuart School of Business and the Chicago Innovation Awards recently announced the creation of an all-new accelerated MBA program that focuses on the Chicago Metro’s growing tech and startup scene and gives students hands-on projects in the city’s innovation community. The program also gives MBA students who “demonstrates a continuing commitment to innovation in the Chicago region” a chance to earn a $10,000 scholarship from the Chicago Innovation Awards. Continue reading…
Smith School’s Dingman Center for Entrepreneurship Launches Bootstrapped Podcast
New media is everywhere, and comes in some many new forms — Twitter, Snapchat, Instagram, Apple News. Nowadays media, news and information is now delivered in every imaginable way across a plethora of internet platforms. Another example of new media on the rise is the podcast — essentially the internet age’s take on terrestrial radio.
Podcast rose to prominence and gained popularity thanks to groundbreaking journalism from “Serial”, storytelling like “This American Life”, and comedy like “The Joe Rogan Experience”. Continue reading…
How an MBA Can Help You Switch Your Career
Here’s a scenario for you to consider: You’re fresh out of undergrad school with the degree you’ve coveted since high school and land a dream job working for an awesome company that pitched you on “upward mobility.” You start your new job and work hard at it, only to realize that you’re not really going in the direction you like with your current career. Continue reading…
DePaul Welcomes Coleman Entrepreneurship Center To Its New Home
In April, the Coleman Entrepreneurship Center (CEC) — which serves as an entrepreneurial hub for DePaul Business students, faculty, alumni, and the surrounding business community — unveiled a new center, a new director and a new strategic plan to the Chicago Metro and beyond.
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Top MBA Recruiters: General Electric
In an age of start-up culture and hip, millennial driven neo-corporate American companies like Google and Facebook, General Electric (GE) has become a bit of an afterthought in the minds of some younger business students and MBA candidates. Continue reading…
