When she started looking for an internship to launch her post-MBA career, University of Georgia Full-Time MBA student Annie Stewart wanted a position where she could contribute to the mission, find mentorship, and be encouraged to grow.
With help from career advisors at the Terry College of Business Full-Time MBA program, she found an internship with global logistics giant UPS that delivered her values and career goals.
“With this internship, I know they have high expectations, which is great because I feel like I will leave better than when I started,” said Stewart about her first month at Atlanta-based UPS. “I feel like the project I’m doing has a lot of meaning, and it will be used. It won’t be something that gets put on a shelf; it will impact the company and customers.”
Each Terry Full-Time MBA student takes a different path during their career. With thousands of industry connections and a 75,000-person alumni network, Terry’s MBA career advisors can help MBA candidates find the right fit for internships and jobs. Terry Full-Time MBA students routinely achieve 100% internship placement, landing internships at nearby Atlanta companies such as UPS, Delta Air Lines and The Home Depot, as well as national firms such as AT&T, EY, Henkel, JPMorganChase, and Microsoft, said Patti Zettek, director of career management for the Full-Time MBA program.
“We start very early with our incoming students,” Zettek said. “We have the manpower to address their career development needs. We have a career coach get in touch with them, talk with them about their interests, conduct assessments and talk about their career goals. It helps them see all the possibilities ahead and learn what roles might be a good fit for them.”
The office maintains a database of industry contacts and is ready to introduce students to company representatives to help them meet their career goals.
Stewart graduated from UGA in 2018 with a degree in psychology. She worked in clinical research before pivoting to consulting work with Blue Hope Performance Lab and eventually pursuing her MBA.
She met with representatives from UPS early in her first semester at career development sessions held by the MBA program. Her advising team prepared her with mock interviews, case studies and personal development exercises.
“With my internship with UPS, I was able to build on a connection that UGA already had,” she said. “It would have been much more difficult to get my foot in the door with a company like UPS without that initial connection.”