There are many resources available to Johnson School students to help them identify the right career path for their interests and skills, to develop a strategic career plan and to find an internship or full-time job.

Advising and Support
Seven professional staff members are available at the Career Management Center to provide personalized career assistance and advice. One member of the CMC staff is dedicated to serving international students.

Second-year students volunteer as Career Assistants, and hold office hours to critique resumes and cover letters, conduct mock interviews, and discuss job search strategies. Students also meet in small groups which seek to anticipate and respond to students' needs and partner with the CMC. These groups, such as the Career Action Group and Career Work Groups, are highlighted below.

Integrated Career Management Program
The Integrated Career Management Program is a series of programs and practice sessions designed to prepare all MBA's to select career options that are right for them, gain knowledge and skills required to successfully pursue their career goals, and land the jobs they want after earning their degrees.

Since students find their jobs both through on-campus recruiting and through off-campus networking, the Integrated Career Management Program includes:

• Overviews and highlights of specific industries
• Preparing for on-campus events
• Planning an off-campus search
• Networking
• Interviewing, including behavioral and case
• Writing resumes and cover letters
• Using CJ Online/Career Management, our online management tool

Additionally, students participate in a videotaped mock interview, receiving feedback from a small group of peers and a human resources consultant.

The CMC Core provides timely information and practice sessions for first-year students to help them prepare for internship recruiting. Beginning with several sessions during Orientation and continuing throughout the fall semester, these programs help students more clearly define a career goal, develop a targeted resume and effective cover letters, prepare a brief pitch, and ace the interview.

Career Work Groups are functionally/industry-aligned student groups of 10 coordinated by the CMC, led by second-year students and assisted by a faculty advisor to provide support, strategic coaching, and tactical advice in all aspects of the job search. Each Career Work Group is assigned a second-year peer coach to help facilitate the process.

Passport Programs, sponsored by the clubs and a faculty advisor, provide structured learning opportunities and practice sessions in several functional areas including: consulting, marketing, investment banking, investment management, sales and trading, and managerial finance. The program consists of a series of steps or milestones designed to increase the students' chances of success in their target industry.

Recruiting

On-campus recruiting
There has been a steady increase in the number of companies interested in hiring Johnson School students, both for on-campus recruiting and job postings. All information is processed online.

Our goal is to do all we can to make our recruiters feel welcome and comfortable so that they can devote their undivided attention to our students. The Career Management staff greets corporate guests as they set up for their briefings in the evening and as they arrive in the morning to interview. Staff members talk with recruiters over a catered lunch in the Sage Hall Parlor, and welcome feedback from them as they leave in the early evening.

Off-campus recruiting
Many companies that do not visit the Johnson School in person send job announcements to the Career Management Center. These announcements, known as correspondence opportunities, or resume submission opportunities, are entered into our web-based database. Over 600 job postings were processed last year.

A good percentage of CMC staff time is also devoted to creating new relationships with companies that do not currently recruit at the School. In the past few years these efforts have culminated in a spring event, Just About Jobs, that has opened up opportunities with many diverse organizations.

Other off-campus recruiting events
The Johnson School participates in various third-party sponsored recruiting events including:

• Global MBA/Masters Employment Conference
• National Black MBA Association Conference
• National Society of Hispanic MBA Conference
• Net Impact Conference

Other services for Johnson School students

CJ Online/Career Management is an integrated electronic administrative system that allows students to bid for on-campus interviews, sign up for company presentations, and research companies online.

Johnson School alumni are particularly eager to help Johnson School students plan their careers. The Johnson School Alumni Connection (JAC) is an online alumni database searchable by city, company, industry or key word. Prominent alumni make frequent visits to the school to give lectures, participate in student-organized symposiums and to meet with students one-on-one.

The Management Library has an extensive collection including books, periodicals and newspapers, as well as dozens of databases to research careers and companies.

The library features a skylit reading room, networked library carrels and state-of-the-art electronic business information services to support students' course work, research, and job searches.

Outstanding reference services and extensive hours-the library is open nearly a hundred hours a week during the academic year-demonstrate its focus on student service. Evening workshops are a regular feature in the library. They are designed to introduce and help you make effective use of electronic business information.

Students also have access to all 19 libraries and over six million volumes in the Cornell Library. Its on-line catalog includes links to over 16,000 electronic journals and makes it easy to pinpoint the location and availability of resources across campus. The Cornell Library's Web site can introduce you to the library's holdings and explain the many services it offers.

The Johnson School has purchased online access to the entire Vault Career Library for all current Johnson School students. Current Johnson School MBA students may obtain access through a link in CJ Online.

The Johnson School is also a partner school in the Global Workplace, which provides career management and networking services for the final year students and alumni of the world's leading business schools. The site includes job opportunities from a complete range of direct recruiters and search firms around the world.

All Johnson School students are encouraged to complete the CareerLeader self-assessment survey. This program is a fully-integrated approach to business career self-assessment developed by Drs. James Waldroop and Timothy Butler, of Harvard Business School. This interactive, online program is currently being used by over 100 top business and MBA programs in the USA and Europe to help guide their students, as well as by numerous corporations to help retain their employees. A professional staff member is available to help students interpret their test results.

Cornell Career Services in nearby Barnes Hall University Career Center and the placement offices in other academic units of Cornell University are open to Johnson School students. Every fall the University Career Center sponsors a Career Fair on campus that Johnson School students attend.

Student Clubs & Organizations
Many of the Johnson School Student Clubs & Organizations coordinate career-related activities. These vary from year-to-year and include activities such as:

The Career Action Group is a small group of students committed to providing career programming for students. They also select, train and schedule Career Assistants, second-year students who provide assistance with resumes, hold practice interviews and offer advice for on- and off-campus job searches.

Breakfasts with recruiters are sometimes held on days of the interviews and organized by individual clubs.

Pre-interview information meetings sponsored by various clubs. Second-year students who have interviewed or interned with a particular company meet with students on that company's upcoming interview schedule to share inside tips.

A Sampling of Additional Programs:

Week on Wall Street is sponsored by the Old Ezra Finance Club. During this January program students visit top Wall Street firms and meet alumni.

Week in Silicon Valley is sponsored by the High Tech club. During this January program students visit over a dozen firms in Silicon Valley.

The Marketing Symposium is an annual fall event featuring guest speakers from consumer products, technology, and e-commerce businesses.

Resume Books
The Johnson School provides searchable,on-line access to MBA student resumes beginning in mid-September for second-year students and in late October for first-year students. Students may also view resumes from recent Johnson School alumni in the hard-copy resume books available in the CMC office.