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Graduate Job Search Resources & Steps
The Office of Career Management offers many resources to assist students with managing their career search and meeting their career goals. Please review our Career Search Guide and follow the steps below to manage your career search.
In addition, our on-line job management system, FisherConnect, enables you to connect with employers and opportunities. Use FisherConnect to post your resume, find jobs, internships, on-campus interview schedules, employer contacts and career fairs all in one system. | Career Resources | Career Search Steps |
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MBAFocus
The Office of Career Management partners with MBAFocus, the leading distributor of graduate student resumes to Fortune 500 companies. By registering and uploading your resume, MBAFocus member companies will have access to your resume. In addition, MBA Focus offers a job board that you may access on a regular basis as a complement to your other job search activities. As a Fisher graduate student, you may register with MBAFocus using the links below.
CareerBeam
CareerBeam is a comprehensive, 24/7, user-friendly program that helps you determine what you want in your career and offers the steps to achieve it. It is a self-paced process to help you clarify your career goals, develop a professional resume and cover letter, prepare for interviews, develop a network, and implement a strategic career search.
CareerBeam Login
CareerBeam helps you tap into the hidden market of jobs and internships by providing access to investigations of over 60 million companies and 70 million industry contacts. It also allows you to identify over 2 million international companies in more than 180 countries. CareerBeam is constantly updating companies’ information so you can have the most current knowledge available.
- CareerBeam gives you up to ten assessments that are combined to produce a personalized career profile.
- CareerBeam provides you access to research 60 million organizations, 70 million industry contacts, in-depth industry profiles, detailed occupational intelligence, and companies in over 180 different countries.
CareerLeader
Many MBA students (typically 70%-80%) do not know what their career goal is when they enroll-they enter a graduate program to discover options! You should not be afraid to admit that you don't know, and you should be prepared to spend focused time on the assessment process. CareerLeader , a web-based career assessment for graduate business students, is one of the best places to begin.
CareerLeader, designed to help you discover your career direction, is a web program consisting of three on-line modules including the:
- Business Career Interests Inventory
- Management and Professional Reward Profile
- Management and Professional Abilities Profile
These modules measure your interests, work values, and abilities and how you view yourself in comparison to other business professionals and peers.
Below you will find the information you'll need to access Career Leader:
If you would like to discuss your results with a job search consultant in the Office of Career Management, please contact us at 292-6024, 150 Gerlach Hall to make an appointment.
Good luck and enjoy learning more about yourself and your career interests!
Resume Preparation
The Fisher College of Business Office of Career Management has developed a required resume format for graduate student resumes based on a review of resume best practices among leading business schools. According to leading recruiters and career search experts, the use of a consistent format allows both students and potential employers to focus on the content rather than the form of the resume. Sample resumes in the required format are provided for various academic disciplines and degree programs.
Please see our resume guide, Resume Development Strategies, for more information on developing your resumes.
Required Resume Format Guidelines
- Select a resume sample: Highlight the sample text and type over it or copy and paste the text from your existing resume into the sample resume.
- Font and font size: Use Times New Roman, Arial or other easy-to-read font. Use 10-12 point font size. Do not use shading or graphics as this will detract from the content.
- Length: Do not exceed one page unless you have significant, relevant experience (i.e., 10 years of professional experience).
- Table: Education institutions, degrees, titles and dates are in a table format for consistent formatting and to enable dates and locations to be right-justified. Note: To hide gridlines prior to saving your resume, go to the Table on the menu bar in Word, and the select "hide gridlines".
Sample Resumes
Refer to the below Microsoft Word documents as example resumes for the career paths listed.
Consulting:
Finance, Investment Management and Accounting:
Marketing:
Master of Business Logisitics Engineering:
Master of Human Resource Management:
Master of Accounting:
Operations and Logisitics Management:
Training Videos
Use these videos to become the best-prepared job seeker at career events and conferences:
| The following career search steps provide a rough outline of the process students should follow, including specific Career Management resources that should be utilized at each stage.
 Create Your Action Plan
- Conduct a Self-Assessment
- CareerLeader
A web-based career assessment tool for MBA students.
- Identify Target Career
The following resources provide industry, company and career information as well as career search advice:
- WetFeet
To view or download Insider Guides, click on “Guides” from the top menu bar, select a guide, click “download,” then enter your Fisher or OSU email address.
- Vault Career Insider
Enter your OSU e-mail address, then select "Create an Account" and complete the registration process.
- Hoover's Online
This database supplies comprehensive company, industry, and market information. It provides information on 12 million companies, with in-depth coverage of 40,000 of the world's top business enterprises.
- Private Equity HUB (peHUB)
An interactive forum for the private equity community, which includes venture capitalists, buyout professionals, attorneys, bankers, entrepreneurs and MBA candidates studying private equity.
- Create a Career Marketing Plan
- Career Marketing Plan (PDF)
A framework to guide and execute your search, based on your self-assessment and career and industry research.
 Prepare Resume and Job Search Correspondence
 Build Networks and Relationships
- Networking to Guide Your Search (PDF)
Explains the importance of networking and provides guidance on how to effectively build relationships to assist you in your search.
- Informational Interview Questions (PDF)
Tailor these sample questions to gather career information from networking contacts.
- LinkedIn
Use LinkedIn to search for contacts. Join relevant groups, such as the Fisher College of Business group, to expand your network.
- Book of Lists
Create a focused target company list using the digital Book of Lists resource available through OSU’s Main Library. Click on the link to the business journal for the major cities listed, then select the Book of Lists to access a rank-ordered listing of companies.
- Target List Worksheet (XLS)
 Prepare for Interviews
 Accept Position
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