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Our Vision: Empowering MBA and Specialty Master’s students with career management skills, inspiring them to actively explore and navigate their professional journey towards lifelong satisfaction and fulfillment.
Your Career Management team is here to help you by providing a roadmap you can follow throughout your career. Using a four-step process approach to managing our career process we walk you through self-discovery with Strategic Career Planning, Building Personal Brand, Expanding Network, and Navigating Job Change and providing you with the tools, resources, and coaching you need to be successful. No matter what program you are pursuing or where you are in your journey, the Wisconsin School of Business has resources and staff as dedicated to your career as you are.
Handshake Links to an external site. - Schedule time with your career coach and view opportunities from corporate partners from career fairs, panels, to internship and job openings.
Big Interview - Web-based interview practice tool for current students (login with wisc.edu credentials). You can video record yourself answering different interview questions and playback to view and/or share with a coach (for those in residential/hybrid programs).
CaseCoach Links to an external site. - CaseCoach is the world's #1 case interview prep platform. Every year, more than sixty thousand candidates use CaseCoach to double their chance of receiving an offer. Over a hundred leading universities and two of the top-3 global management consulting firms have chosen CaseCoach as their interview preparation partner.
12Twenty Links to an external site. - Used to record your employment information for aggregate ranking reports and to register for events.
MBA-Exchange Links to an external site.- A job search tool that includes detailed filters for MBA-level job and employer searches (including H1B sponsorship status), a global directory of all leadership development programs, in-depth country guides, and real-time online events and direct connections with employers.
GoinGlobal Links to an external site. - A comprehensive database to help you find job and internship opportunities both in the US and abroad. Contains an H1B Visa database, which is particularly useful for international students. Also contains country career guides, an employer directory, and CultureWizard, which helps you identify your personal culture profile and where you may need to adapt to work in a particular country. Access via this link Links to an external site. or through Handshake (Career center > Resources).
Vault/Firsthand Links to an external site. - Get help from mentors with insights on jobs/industries/companies through conversations and career guides.
Career Coaches and the populations they serve:
Brian Whitmore - FTMBA/SpM: MLI, TSPM, SCM & PMBA
Caitlin Hunter - SpM: ACE, MSBA (primary coach) and MSFE
Deb Jahnke - FTMBA: SHR, PMBA (primary coach), EMBA
Jean Sink - EMBA & PMBA
Laura Berkan - FTMBA/SpM: ASAP, CFIB, RE, RMI & PMBA
Mara Yorizzo - SpM: SCM, MSFE (primary coach) and MSBA
To schedule an appointment with your Career Coach, use the Handshake link above!
Employer Relations
Contents
- Follow the ER Team on LinkedIn!
- Summer/Fall Recruiting Announcements (across different sectors)
- MBA-Exchange.com (24/7 MBA-level job aggregator and industry research platform)
- Consulting Recruiting Guide (consulting specific)
- Leadership Development Program Guide and Rankings
- Filterable List of Recent Employers of WSB MBA and Master’s Students
- National and UW-Madison Career Fair Guide
- Industry Research Resources
- Assistant Directors and the Populations They Serve
Follow the ER Team on LinkedIn!
We encourage you to use Linkedin frequently and in many different ways. There are Linkedin groups associated with the WSB Knowledge Centers, Wisconsin School of Business, Career Management, Employer Relations, and of course company pages that you can follow for job postings, networking, and organizational announcements. Join the Graduate Employer Relations at the WSBLinks to an external site. LinkedIn page to stay abreast of employer updates, job leads, and market intelligence.
Summer/Fall Recruiting Announcements (across different sectors)
Explore top career opportunities kicking off this summer in the 2025 Summer Recruiting Announcements Download 2025 Summer Recruiting Announcements page! Some of the announcements are for Pre-MBA events, but others are for full-time hiring. Many of these programs offer early applications, networking, and access to recruiters. Check back periodically for updates!
MBA-Exchange/Careernomics
Full-time MBA students have access to MBA-Exchange Links to an external site., an excellent resource for a plethora of job search tools including detailed filters for MBA-level job and employer searches (including H1B sponsorship status!), a global directory of all leadership development programs, in-depth country guides, and real-time online events and direct connections with employers. Specialty Master's students have access to an almost-identical resource, Careernomics Links to an external site.!
Consulting Recruiting Handout (consulting specific)
The 2025-26 Consulting Recruiting Guide Download 2025-26 Consulting Recruiting Guide contains a brief portfolio of information about consulting recruiting opportunities at prominent firms, some of which have early or rolling applications.
Leadership Development Resources
Leadership development and rotational programs provide you with in-depth experiences, ongoing mentorship, and targeted training across a range of business areas within a company. Interns or post-graduates are hired and trained through rotations or specific, structured training programs, with the goal of developing future leaders for the organization. Many of these programs have special recruitment timelines but primarily interview during the fall semester. Each program may have unique components, length of time, pre-selected rotating work assignments, optional rotating work assignments or specific, in-depth experience in one area. Most of these programs offer both internship or full-time opportunities.
Note: While the ranking document is titled MBA LDPs, many of these companies have rotational programs that open to Masters students as well.
Recent Employers of WSB MBA and Specialty Master's Students
This updated filterable spreadsheet Download This updated filterable spreadsheet will provide you insight on recent employers of MBA and Specialty Master's students to aid you in your job search. A few clarifications about these lists:
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- These lists are for the personal use of WSB students only and should not be shared with outside parties.
- The lists are filterable by "international student" which will help students zero in on those employers that have hired international students in the past.
- Years of data available varies by program, but as a general rule, these tabs have about 7 years of MBA data and 4 years of Specialty Master's data.
- Company hiring policies are always changing, so check current hiring practices for any employer on these lists before applying.
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National Career Fair Information
National Career Fair Handout Download National Career Fair Handout: This document contains details and registration links for four career fairs in Fall 2025: National Black MBA (September 24-26), ROMBA (September 25-27), MBA Vets (October 9-10), and Prospanica (October 19-22). Attendance at national career fairs can provide an invaluable early boost to your career research and networking.
Campus Career Fair Handout Download Campus Career Fair Handout: This file lists many past examples of on-campus autumn fairs we expect to be repeated in Fall 2025. These events are free and local, so we highly encourage you to check them out. Dates, times, and registration links have not been established for these events yet, but be sure to check back in later this summer!
Industry Research Resources
All faculty, staff, and students at the University of Wisconsin are granted access to exclusive, high-quality news publications. You can register using your wisc.edu email addresses at any of these resources:
For instructions and additional information on accessing these resources, please refer to the UW-Madison Libraries help page here.
Fall 2024 Recruiting Report
Details recruiting activity from September-December 2024 including companies who engaged in recruiting engagements, types of engagements, and an "employer scorecard" of top engaged companies.
Fall Recruiting Report01_23_25.pdf Download Fall Recruiting Report01_23_25.pdf
WSB's "Core School" Companies
These companies consider WSB a "core school" Download These companies consider WSB a "core school" in one or more functional areas.
Assistant Directors and the Populations They Serve
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- Karl Galko: Financial Economics, Business Analytics, Supply Chain Management, and Arts & Creative Enterprise Leadership tracks
- Amanda Kost: Strategic HR, Corporate Finance, Risk Management and Insurance, Applied Security Analysis, and Real Estate tracks
- Leslie Taylor: Marketing and Technology Strategy & Product Management