An MBA from Booth provides you with unrivaled access to global industry expertise, individualized coaching, and career support for life.
Our Executive MBA graduates report feeling more confident in their ability to navigate ambiguity, lead teams, and tackle business problems they have never encountered before.
Their skills as strategic and analytical thinkers are sharpened at Booth, enabling them to approach their work with more rigor and apply what they learn at Booth on the job.
Chicago Booth Executive MBA students have career goals as diverse as their global, multi-industry backgrounds suggest. That’s why our Career Services team is dedicated to meeting you where you are in your career journey.
Our team supports you in that journey by helping you navigate the process, coaching you through the transitions, and making the most of your Booth education. We offer tailored guidance for your individual situation and also provide programs, tools, and resources for common career goals.
Are you looking to use the tools from an MBA to advance within your company? Our team can work with you to understand what your organization needs from you, identify key influencers and learning experiences, and convey how the MBA journey fits into your development plan.
Some Executive MBA students look to an MBA as a foundational tool for building their own venture or as a means to entering the startup ecosystem more broadly. We can help you assess if entrepreneurship is right for you whether you are considering joining an existing venture or starting one of your own.
If you are contemplating changing companies, industries, or functions, we can help you assess your readiness and path forward. Our team works with career changers to develop networking strategies, new relationships, resume enhancement, and personal brand stories. In addition, the Chicago Booth Employer Relations team engages with companies around the world on your behalf. We collaborate with organizations seeking experienced talent and work to make those opportunities accessible to you.
One of the benefits of an Executive MBA from Booth is that you have access to our global Career Services team, which includes dedicated and knowledgeable industry experts and career coaches who reside on each of our campuses in Chicago, London, and Hong Kong. They will support you at every step of your career journey. What’s more, you can tap into their support for life. Our team, one of the largest of any business school, will help you refine your career goals and expand your impact through a variety of resources, including:
Career coaches at Booth begin working with you early on to clarify your goals and aspirations. They can help you strategize around career challenges such as adapting to new situations and working with employees. Current students and recent alumni also act as advisors and are available to provide you with a peer perspective.
The Career Services team delivers workshops on topics such as exploring industries and job functions, learning how to network, and positioning your experiences. Sessions include career guidance from our experienced coaches and Employer Relations team, as well as from alumni, hiring managers, executive search firms, and corporate recruiters in the field.
Career Services provides access to web-based self-assessment tools and a variety of databases to research industries, companies, contacts, and news, as well as staff who can help direct your research.
Job postings frequently result from Employer Relations global outreach. Every year, we post more than 3,000 positions, over 40 percent of which are senior manager level or above.
As a student, you can create a profile in our resume database that is searchable to corporate partners. This database is part of our job search portal that houses our recruiter contacts and relevant notes from recent company meetings, all of which you have access to.
"I was very fortunate to get this new role, and it wouldn’t have come about if not for Booth.”
As an Executive MBA student at Chicago Booth, you’ll have access to a wide range of services to help you evolve your career.
For Executive MBA alumna Mary Furto, it wasn't until she pursued a career change that she saw the full value of the Booth network.