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MIT Sloan Career Stories

Career Successes: Santiago Guerrero Valderrama, MBA ’24 – Four Tips for Navigating the Highway Recruiting Process

By Santiago Guerrero Valderrama, MBA ’24

Santiago Guerrero Valderrama, MBA ’24, recently completed an internship at Goldman Sachs. Before coming to MIT Sloan, he worked for nearly five years in the International Investments Division of the Colombian Central Bank overseeing …

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Career Successes: Toru Hirata, MBA ’24 – Three Tips for Your Summer Internship Journey

By Toru Hirata, MBA 2024

In true MBA fashion, I would like to share three key tips that I believe will be valuable for future Sloanies as you embark on your summer internship journey. Just to give you a little …

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Career Stories: Nick Graham, MBA ’15 – Executive Recruiting Lessons Learned

By Nick Graham, MBA ’15

Nick Graham, MBA ’15, recently joined Formlabs as their new CRO. Nick shares some of the lessons he learned during his recruiting process. 

Process Overview

There are a few key stages of any recruiting process:

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Career Successes: Trevor Barcelo, EMBA ’21

Trevor Barcelo, MIT Sloan EMBA ’21, recently landed a new role as Senior Director of Marketing and Applications for Richtek. After spending several years exploring multidiscipline engineering leadership, business development management, and technology commercialization, Trevor is excited to return to …

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AI Career Tools: ChatGPT, VMock, and more

Blog Contributors: Heather Holland, Gayle Grader 
ChatGPT and other AI tools are making headlines with their potential to speed up and improve job search communication – including resumes, cover letters, career summaries and profiles, identifying skills, anticipating interview questions and …

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Career Successes: Lucas Ramirez, SFMBA 2019 – Four Secrets to Success in a Job Search

Lucas Ramirez, SFMBA 2019, recently landed a new role as Chief Financial Officer at Grameen America Inc., the largest and fastest growing microfinance organization in the United States.

Lucas shares his four secrets to success in a job search:

Preparation, …

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Founder and Builder DNA: featuring Adeel Mallick, MBA ’19, Co-Founder and CEO of Humming Homes

Are you considering founding your own company, or working at an early-stage venture? Adeel Mallick shares what you need to know to embark on this path.

  About Adeel: Adeel Mallick (MBA ’19) always knew he had builder DNA. He chose …

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Career Stories: Clayton Jones, SFMBA 2022

Clayton Jones, SFMBA 2022, speaks about his career journey leading up to MIT Sloan, and what led him to partner with fellow classmates to create Dome VC. Clayton also describes how the SFMBA program helped him along the path to …

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Career Stories: Belen Vicente Blazquez, MBA 2021

Belen Vicente Blazquez, MBA 2021, speaks about her career transition from large consulting firms to biotech startups. She discusses how she leaned on networking, MIT Sloan events and clubs, and the CDO to determine her career path. Watch our interview …

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Career Stories: “Finding Your Differentiating Factor” with Ellen Rice Chever MBA’16

Ellen Rice Chever, MBA 16, discusses how to navigate your career while at MIT Sloan, including leveraging the CDO. She shares how to discover your differentiating factor and unlock opportunity in three simple steps. Watch Ellen’s video below.

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