Career Services Overview
At NYU Stern, you get top quality career services and resources, gain a powerful network of alumni and fellow students, and benefit from our collaborative and supportive community.
Run by NYU Stern's Office of Career Development, IGNITE is a program that offers personalized support, tools, training and development that will provide you with lifelong job search skills to help you achieve your short- and long-term career goals. The program consists of required and elective sessions including workshops, Q&A sessions, mock interviews, résumé critiques and industry- and function-specific strategy groups. IGNITE program sessions cover the following key areas:
- Setting/assessing skills and values
- Defining career goals
- Creating a targeted résumé
- Networking effectively
- Preparing for informational interviews and corporate presentations
- Strengthening interviewing skills
- Developing job search strategies and techniques
Summer internships between the first and second year of the MBA program are instrumental experiences in helping students assess fit within an industry and function and building resumes to allow for career changes.
Summer internship recruitment takes place throughout the entire academic year with timelines varying based on individual company hiring needs. While hiring timelines are company specific, we do see trends across industries. Industries that have cyclical/predictable hiring timelines, such as investment banking, consulting, and consumer products, begin their engagement with Stern students very early in the school year through a process called On-Campus Recruiting. On-Campus Recruiting includes corporate presentations, coffee chats, and on-campus interviews. Corporate presentations begin at the end of September and on-campus interviews occur in January between the first and second semesters of the first year. If you will be pursuing a summer internship through On-Campus Recruiting, your availability during this time will be critical. For the Class of 2019, on-campus interviews will begin in early January 2018 (date TBD).
Most other industries follow a more “real world”, just-in-time approach to hiring, which takes place throughout the spring semester. For students recruiting in these industries, which includes but are not limited to media and entertainment, luxury retail, and real estate, the fall semester is more focused on building a strategy and networking in preparation for a spring job search. There are some industries, such as technology, healthcare, and investment management, that recruit both on-campus and in the spring. It varies by the company’s hiring strategy.
Most summer internships begin in early June.
Summer internship recruitment takes place throughout the entire academic year with timelines varying based on individual company hiring needs. While hiring timelines are company specific, we do see trends across industries. Industries that have cyclical/predictable hiring timelines, such as investment banking, consulting, and consumer products, begin their engagement with Stern students very early in the school year through a process called On-Campus Recruiting. On-Campus Recruiting includes corporate presentations, coffee chats, and on-campus interviews. Corporate presentations begin at the end of September and on-campus interviews occur in January between the first and second semesters of the first year. If you will be pursuing a summer internship through On-Campus Recruiting, your availability during this time will be critical. For the Class of 2019, on-campus interviews will begin in early January 2018 (date TBD).
Most other industries follow a more “real world”, just-in-time approach to hiring, which takes place throughout the spring semester. For students recruiting in these industries, which includes but are not limited to media and entertainment, luxury retail, and real estate, the fall semester is more focused on building a strategy and networking in preparation for a spring job search. There are some industries, such as technology, healthcare, and investment management, that recruit both on-campus and in the spring. It varies by the company’s hiring strategy.
Most summer internships begin in early June.
- One-on-one career coaching sessions
- Daily Open Hour for quick career-related questions
- Résumé and cover letter review
- Personalized online career portal, with access to on-campus recruiting, job postings, workshops and presentations
- Self-assessment tools
- Access to industry, career and company guides, such as Vault
- Research and networking tools such as MBA Exchange, CareerBeam and Going Global
Career Mentors are select second-year students who partner with OCD, implementing career-related activities for first-year students throughout the first semester. They provide the following services:
- Targeted résumé review by industry and function
- Small group strategy sessions on job search topics, such as navigating corporate presentations and tough interview questions
- Mock interviews
NYU Stern provides a dynamic alumni network of over 100,000 business leaders in more than 125 countries throughout the world. Networking with alumni may occur through a variety of Stern activities such as corporate presentations, informational interviews, conferences, panels, receptions, case competitions and other events.