Graduate Career Development

Let’s Get Your Career Started.

At Leeds, career planning, development and advising is a personalized process. Building on your existing knowledge and professional experience, a dedicated career counselor helps create your own personal strategy for transitioning from academia to an increasingly competitive global marketplace.

Our one-on-one approach to advising begins at orientation and continues throughout the program. Career advisors take an active role in guiding the strategic choices that can advance your career.Ìý

Graduate Career Management Services

CAREER COACHING

CAREER COACHING

  • Assessments and one-on-one conversations to empower you to identify your skills, strengths, interests, and motivators, which we use to explore career paths Ìý
  • Foundation for developing your unique professional value proposition
  • Personalized support in goal setting
  • Frameworks for identifying potential employers and creating strategic networking plans
  • Behavioral and case interview preparation
  • Offer management and salary negotiation support

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MATERIALS REVIEWS

  • Resumes
  • Cover letters
  • Networking correspondence
  • LinkedIn profiles

GRADUATE CAREER MANAGEMENT LED ENGAGEMENTS

  • Employer meet and greets
  • Coffee chats
  • Resume books
  • Introductions for Interviews
  • Virtual or on-campus information sessions

SIGNATURE NETWORKING EVENTS

  • Buffs to Business
  • Professional mentoring kick-off celebration
  • Graduate networking and recruiting night
  • Disco-interno networking event for first and second year MBA students
  • Last Lecture
  • MBA Alumni Holiday Party

PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT WORKSHOPS

  • Interviewing
  • Salary negotiation
  • Networking
  • Professional presence and communications
  • Strengths assesments

Meet the Graduate Career Management Team