Career Connections
“Career Connections works with each MBA student on his or her career aspirations to make the career experience an individual process whose impetus comes from the student's perspective."
-Mary Banks, Director Career Connections
Career Connections partners with you into your future. Even before classes begin, the Career Connections team is involved with students' professional prospects, providing advice, support, and resources to help focus their career strategies. Offering intensive resume work, career assessment, networking, and interviewing preparation, Career Connections takes an active role in preparing MBA students to strategize short and longer term career goals.
Looking to move your career into a new functional area or industry? A summer internship is a key ingredient for increasing your skill set and focus. Leeds’ location in one of the most entrepreneurial regions of the country affords students hands-on experience in start-up ventures and companies in innovative industries such as natural and organic foods and renewable energy. Crocs, Webroot, and Wild Oats all started here in our dynamic entrepreneurial community. Other internship possibilities range from high tech leaders in storage, software, and systems such as Sun Microsystems and IBM to the aerospace industry with Ball Aerospace and Lockheed Martin; or healthcare giants such as Amgen and Tyco Healthcare Group/Valley Lab to investment firms such as St. Charles Capital.
Employers describe Leeds MBA graduates as real-world, take-charge innovators willing to roll-up their sleeves and add value quickly. Their strong communication skills and entrepreneurial abilities frequently place them at the head of the pack. Our innovative curriculum, world-class faculty, and high standards support a hands-on educational experience that creates the kind of MBAs that employers come back for again and again.