UCLA Anderson provides a dedicated career and leadership development team to Executive MBA students to help them manage their careers
Executive MBA Career Services, as detailed below, provide one-on-one career coaching, various career workshops, programs, and resources, and a career management website tailored to meet the needs of the UCLA Anderson Executive MBA. All Executive MBA students have immediate access to career services as soon as they complete the Foundations of Leadership Opening Residential.
Executive MBA Career Workshops and Activities
Career Workshops
Career management workshops for Executive MBAs are held regularly each quarter on Fridays from 2:00 pm to 4:00 pm on a variety of career topics such as preparing for the next career move, executive presence, networking, interviewing, negotiating, researching and targeting companies, strategies for career advancement and how to work with executive recruiters.
First-year Executive MBA students are offered a year-long series of career management workshops that focus on the key principles of marketing as applied to the career management and job search process. Whether students seek to move within their current organizations or do an external job search, the same strategies covered in this series apply to both!
Second-year Executive MBA students take a more in-depth look at the career and leadership management topics covered in the first year, including career-shifting, personal branding, use of social media for career management, and advancing within your organization.
Job Search Teams
The Job Search Team is a practical resource for EMBA students who are: 1) unemployed due to layoff or job loss and/or 2) who are actively searching, and it is offered every other quarter, including over the summer. Job Search Teams provide a workgroup structure that enables students to manage their job search process by identifying tasks, setting specific work objectives, and measuring weekly progress in meeting job search and career transition goals. The group format allows for positive, synergistic strategizing, networking, information-sharing, and mutual support. It is facilitated by a professional career coach (often one of our coaches) with in-depth experience running job search teams.
Student Networking Events
Regular opportunities occur doing the year for Executive MBA students to network with students from the other two MBA programs. Twice a year, an All Anderson Networking Event is held on campus during class weekends. In addition, there are opportunities each year for first and second-year Executive MBAs to meet and network with EMBA Alums and periodic events between the class years.
UCLA Anderson Student Clubs
There are close to 40 student organizations on campus, and they are very professional, extremely well organized, and all very active and connected in networking with industry professionals. The clubs, typically run by Full-Time students, sponsor various career activities, including speaker events, panels, roundtables, workshops, and career nights. Student clubs love having EMBA students as members, and this resource is helpful for any career shifter in the EMBA Program!
Web-based Career Management Resources
Career Tools Website for Executive MBAs
This site has extensive content explicitly tailored to UCLA Anderson's executive career management needs- i.e., its current Executive MBA students. Here is a wealth of information and resources to enable EMBAs to manage their careers. The site includes excellent how-to practical information, worksheets, articles, and links to the best websites for everything from self-assessment, career management, job search strategy, researching and targeting the job market, resume writing, interviewing, networking, and negotiating the job offer. The website also includes career resources for transitioning military EMBA students.