Deloitte Consulting is one of the top recruiters of Haas graduates. This year’s recruits include (from left to right): Adit Mane, Kurt Kolinski, Virali Gokaldas, Sree Chalasani, Shalini Bhatia, and Rajiv Vaidyanathan, all MBA 07.
Full-time MBA Program
From Planning to Pursuit
While you are in the Berkeley MBA program, you will learn how to manage a successful career and prepare yourself to secure the job you want after graduation.
You may have well-defined career goals when you arrive at Haas, or you may want to test the waters using elective courses, club activities, and summer internships. One of the many roles of the Chetkovich Career Center is to assist you in thinking strategically about your career objectives, to offer you a structured approach to tackling today’s job market.
Mastery of strategic career planning
As a first-year Berkeley MBA student, you will accelerate your preparations for the job search process during an intensive,
two-day Career Management Conference in the fall. The purpose of the conference is to educate you on how to pursue a job
successfully and how to set and manage career objectives now and in the future. “The conference is proof of how seriously
we take the subject of careers for our students,” says Abby Scott, Career Center executive director. “The regular first
year MBA curriculum stops completely for two full days so that students can focus on mastering the career search process.”
The Career Services Office also sponsors a variety of other programs, such as:
- The Practitioner Training series, where professionals from firms such as JP Morgan, Goldman Sachs & Co., Bain, and McKinsey & Co. are invited into the classroom to train Berkeley MBA students how to apply their classroom skills to the real world.
- Haas’ Expert Practical Training Premium programs bring outside groups such as Training the Street and Corporate Scenes to Haas for 1-2 day seminars and workshops.
- Students interested in real estate careers have the opportunity to be partnered with a practicing professional through the school’s Analyzing Careers in Real Estate program.
Counseling and career coaching
The Career Center also offers counseling services at all stages of the career planning process. The career advising staff
consists of professional counselors and second-year career coaches who together offer a broad range of training and
business management experience.
On-campus interviews in varied industries
Four senior-level account managers, each with different areas of industry expertise, manage thousands of on-campus interviews,
hundreds of relationships with companies, and numerous career fairs and networking receptions. They also monitor a web-based
job posting service that provides you with hundreds of targeted job postings each year. The Center also has an account manager
based in New York City, focused on maximizing opportunities for Berkeley MBA students with financial services and other firms
on the East Coast.
Site visits to finance and high technology firms
The Center organizes special visits by Berkeley MBA students to finance and high technology firms. You can visit Wall Street
finance firms in New York, or travel on a Tech Trek to nearby Silicon Valley to learn about employment opportunities at firms
such as Google, Yahoo!, BEA, and Electronic Arts.
Online career tools
The school’s new, state-of-the-art student careers web site, CareerNet, enables you to stay on top of the job market by providing
instant access to career tools, as well as employer and event information. By continually improving and expanding career services
such as CareerNet, The Haas School of Business continues to be committed to preparing Berkeley MBAs for success in
today’s competitive job market.
