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.

86%

MGMs secured summer internships

89%

MGM employment 6 months post-graduation

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

Two Thunderbird students having a conversation over coffee

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.

A Thunderbird students participates in an online learning course on her taptop

Career tools and resources

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

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

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