UCLA Anderson’s Career Center Ranks as Top Career Center Among MBA Programs
Career centers at business schools, or any university for that matter, hold the utmost importance for students. The first step towards landing a job or an internship at a reputed company, Career Centers play the vital role of developing relationships with prospective employers and bringing them on board to hire MBA graduates.
Over the past few weeks, we’ve focused on the career centers at a number of business schools including Harvard Business School, London Business School and the Olin Business School. Today we take a look at UCLA Anderson School of Management’s career center, the Parker Career Management Center, which is consistently ranked as the top career center in student satisfaction by The Economist, and has a 100% record when it comes to helping students secure internships.
Employment Statistics
According to the employment report released by UCLA Anderson for the class of 2018, consulting and technology are among the most popular industries, together accounting for over 40% of Anderson’s full-time MBA class. Consumer Products, Entertainment & Media, and Healthcare round off the Top 5 industries, placing 10.9%, 9.4% and 7.1% of the class respectively.
When it comes to function-wise breakdown, consulting takes the top spot with 19.9%. Production Management comes in second with 12%, followed by Finance with 8.2%, Business & Corporate Development at 7.6%, and Operations/Logistics at 6.2%.
UCLA Anderson has also had some of leading conglomerates, such as Amazon, Google, Microsoft, Amgen, BCG and McKinsey, recruiting its MBA graduates.
Taking internships into account, one-fourth of the class of 2019 chose to work in Finance and another one-fourth went into Technology, with Consulting accounting for 17% of the class.
The Parker Career Management Center
Dedicated to providing career support to current students and alumni, the Parker Career Management Center (CMC) takes pride in helping students switch careers. According to their statistics, the internships for the class of 2019 had 86.8% students switch either their industry of preference or function and 56.6% students switched both.
The team at Parker CMC is experienced in industries such as:
- Technology
- Consulting
- Finance
- Health Care
- Entertainment
- Marketing
- Social Impact
- Entrepreneurship
- Real Estate
Oumar Toure, an MBA graduate from UCLA Anderson from the class of 2018 talks about how Parker CMC helped him land a consultant’s job at BCG.
“Parker has a really well structured program for students recruiting for consulting, you just need to “trust the process.” I definitely took advantage of the 1-on-1 sessions to test my answers to behavioral interview questions and to make sure my resume and cover letters were in great shape.”
Resources at Parker CMC
The team at Parker CMC is home to the Anderson Career Team that helps students polish their networking and interviewing skills, meet with guest speakers, share contacts and motivate each other throughout the summer internship search process. The team also helps the students in a number of aspects, be it 1-on-1 career advising, series on resume writing, cover letter writing, interviewing, or decision making, providing career support to international students by giving them an overview of the U.S. job search process, work authorization, helping find companies that hire international students and much more. The career center also hosts workshops and panels regularly on topics such as Case and Technical Interviewing, Beyond Campus Recruiting, Career Conference Preparation, Career Path Options among others.
The Parker CMC team is led by Regina Regazzi, who is the Assistant Dean at Parker. Regazzi’s previous work experience includes founding and running Artume LLC, an executive recruiting and career consulting firm based in Delaware. She’s also worked in financial services recruitment at Spencer Stuart, where she began her career, and PrinceGoldsmith, a New York-based boutique firm. Regina is joined by Phil Han, who’s the Director of Recruiting Operations and Career Advisor Healthcare and High Tech, Chris Weber, the Director of Career Advising and Outreach Consulting and Social Impact, and a team of 13 other members who are dedicated towards providing UCLA Anderson students the best possible career advice and opportunities.
