Career Development Office - MIT Sloan School of Management

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.

Originally published July 29, 2019

We sat down with Pinar Topal, MFin Class of February 2020, who conducted an Investment Banking (M&A) internship with Morgan Stanley in London. We asked her to reflect upon her internship recruiting experience and offer …

Learn more about Investment Banking from Sloan MBA alumnus and former Core Fellow Steve Tuekam.

Intro (:40)
Market Overview (2:53)
Overview of Firms (4:09)
Key Words and Vernacular (5:20)
What I Wish I Knew (1:52)

Brint Markle, MBA 2014, discusses how his entrepreneurial career path led him to take on a traditional job search. Brint also offers recommendations on embarking on a targeted job search, networking, and how the CDO helped him navigate a career …

Alumni Sam Épée-Bounya (MBA ’03) shares how values, authenticity and resilience were keys to a successful career and a life with impact.

Sam Épée-Bounya, MBA ‘03
Managing Director, Wellington Management
Emerging Markets Debt Team (Focus:  Latin America and Africa).

What’s …

Kristin Riley, EMBA 2020 was our featured speaker for the EMBAs Helping EMBAs: Career Conversations virtual career networking event on May 6. She discussed the importance of curiosity, values alignment, and the power of connection for her career transition.

By Asha Aravindakshan, SFMBA ‘17

At this point in the series, you have your personal brand ready: you’ve established your brand (covered in Part 1 of the series), you strengthened your LinkedIn Profile, and you created your elevator pitch (see …

By Cassie Zhang, MBA ’21, Spring Core Fellow

Congratulations on securing your internship! As you look towards the summer, here are a couple of tips to help you maximize your experience, especially in a virtual environment.

DO YOUR HOMEWORK

Brush …

By Marissa Konstadt, MBA ’21, Spring Core Fellow

Congratulations! You nailed the dream summer internship. Now it’s time to make sure you can actually do what you said you could during the interview…luckily, we’ve got some time to prepare. Consider …

By Kristy Willard, MBA ’21, Core Fellow

Last summer I had the opportunity to intern at Facebook as a Product Marketing Manager (PMM) on the WhatsApp team. I absolutely loved my time with the team and will be returning full-time …