Careers

Overview

Thunderbird and Thunderbird’s Career Management Center (CMC) offers career events and workshops throughout the academic year to enhance your career development. We develop Thunderbirds for life-changing global careers. We partner with students, alumni, faculty, and staff to foster a career focused community. We provide guidance and resources to Thunderbirds for strategic career planning. We connect employers to global talent.

Each Master of Global Management (MGM) student is assigned a Career Coach. Coaching appointments are designed to support you throughout the development and implementation of your internship or job search strategy. Our Career Coaches offer two self-assessment tools for current students seeking to clarify and explore their career goals: Success Insights (TTI) and CareerLeader. After taking these online assessments, you may attend a workshop to learn about the results and then meet with a coach to discuss any impact the results may have on your professional development and career choices.

Thunderbird works with local and international organizations to recruit Thunderbird students, including: ExxonMobil, Honeywell, Fiat Chrysler Automobiles, On Semiconductor, Hilti, Johnson & Johnson, U.S. Department of State and many others.

Past career events include:

Thunderbird offers career events and workshops throughout the academic year to enhance your career development.

 

  • Case Interview Boot Camp
  • On-campus recruiting
  • Industry panel discussions
  • Employer Lunch & Learn
  • Employer information sessions

 

  • Networking events
  • Alumni presentations
  • Career fairs
  • Behavioral Interviewing
  • Salary Negotiation
  • Networking Strategies for International Job Search

 

  • Using LinkedIn as a Job Search Tool
  • Basics of Case Interviewing
  • Networking Strategies for International Job Searches
  • US Federal Resume, 10 Steps to a Federal Job
  • Job Search for International Students
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Coaching appointments

Coaching appointments are designed to support you throughout the development and implementation of your internship or job search strategy. Some of the common issues covered in these sessions include:

  • Defining a professional development plan
  • Self-Assessments
  • Researching sectors, fields and employers
  • Providing linkages to alumni and professionals in all fields and sectors
  • Identifying and pursuing summer internships
  • Conducting a mock-interview (practice interview questions followed by feedback on content and presentation style)

Self-assessment reviews

Our career coaches offer two self-assessment tools for current students seeking to clarify and explore their career goals: Success Insights (TTI) and CareerLeader. After taking these online assessments, you may attend a workshop to learn about the results and then meet with a coach to discuss any impact the results may have on your professional development and career choices.

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Career tools and resources

Our Career Management Center (CMC) offers various resources to help students identify and secure internships and post-graduation jobs, including:

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Handshake

Thunderbird and ASU's core career services platform that allows students to house resumes and cover letters, and to search and apply for jobs posted across ASU. Students can maintain a profile that is searchable by employers, RSVP for career fairs or info sessions, workshops and round tables and other special events. It can also be used to make an appointment with your career coach, and as the access point to other career resources.

Vault Career Inside

This platform provides access to:

  • Industry career and employer guides
  • Company profiles
  • Industry, career message boards
  • Internship database
  • Company research
  • Occupational profiles
  • Career advice and resources
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Management Consulted

Management Consulted is a career site designed to help students break into the management consulting industry. They offer seminars, live Q&As, hands-on activities, application calendars, and practice drills.

CareerShift

CareerShift allows you to create job search campaigns by accessing millions of jobs and contacts:

  • My Jobs finds every job posted at every career site
  • My Contacts provides contact information for millions of businesses/contacts, and cross-referenced job postings
  • My Campaign distributes your resume through print or email
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Beyond B School

Your Thunderbird-sponsored resource for additional, just-in-time career management strategies.

Quinncia

Quinncia is a tool that uses AI to provide students with resume enhancements and tailored mock interviews.

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Quinncia is a tool that uses AI to provide students with resume enhancements and tailored mock interviews.

CMC Staff

Connect with the CMC

Thunderbird Senior Associate Director of Career Management Angelique Smith

Our career management team is here to assist you with reaching your career goals. Schedule a meeting with a member of our team using Handshake.