Resources

Cawley Career Center

Appointments for industry guidance, career exploration, and practice interviews are available through Handshake.

Networking

Reach out to alumni through Hoya Gateway, Georgetown’s alumni page on LinkedIn, and Georgetown University’s Alumni Career Network.

Student Organizations

Georgetown offers a number of opportunities for Undergrad Hoyas to prepare for a career in manufacturing and transportation consulting. Check out HoyAlytics and the Georgetown Marketing Association.

McDonough Career Center 

Refer to McDonough Career Center Career Coach and Peer Advisor biographies in the MCV Resource Library to familiarize yourself with the advisors and their areas of expertise.

McDonough CareerView

Appointments for industry guidance, career exploration, and practice interviews are available through MCV.

Networking

Reach out to alumni through Georgetown’s alumni page on LinkedIn and Georgetown University’s Alumni Career Network.

GradGov

Georgetown University Graduate Student Government (GradGov) is the official voice of main-campus graduate students to the University administration & faculty. GradGov promotes graduate student interests by offering year-long opportunities for professional, social, and academic development across all graduate school programs.

Student Organizations

Join career-focused clubs that cover the functional areas that you are most interested in such as the Graduate Marketing Association, the Finance Club, and Georgetown Operations and Management Association. 

McDonough Career Center 

Refer to McDonough Career Center Career Coach and Peer Advisor biographies in the MCV Resource Library to familiarize yourself with the advisors and their areas of expertise.

McDonough CareerView

Appointments for industry guidance, career exploration, and practice interviews are available through MCV.

Networking

When beginning to conduct informational interviews, start with second-year, full-time MBA students who interned with the firm or students who have work experience at the firm, then first/second-year associates, then managers/senior managers and finally partners and managing directors.  You will gradually build firm and industry knowledge and will be positioned to make the strongest impression on senior decision makers at the firm.  

Firms commonly track you from your first interactions.  Firm representatives and alumni visit campus and meet with students to identify top talent long before the formal resume submission.  Every informational counts!    

Maintain industry awareness: Marketplaces are constantly changing and so are the customers. The more attuned you are to the shifts, the more successful your career will be. Stay abreast of market research and industry developments.

Student Organizations

The Georgetown Operations and Management Association (GOMA),is the student-led club that has organized Career Days related to operations, which is a common core function of the transportation and manufacturing industry.    

Career Days

Career Days are informational, “day-in-the-life” events with a specific industry or functional focus, including Marketing, Healthcare, Finance, Consulting, Entrepreneurship, Operations, and Energy. Students who participate in Career Days have the chance to discover new career paths and opportunities in their area of interest. Organized by the Student Organizations with oversight from the MBA Career Center’s Career Advisors, Career Days are normally scheduled on Fridays during the fall semester. Alumni and recruiters participate through panels, keynotes, roundtable discussions, and networking receptions.

Operations Day is typically held in October. Contact GOMA for details.  

Career Fairs

 National MBA Career Fairs offer an excellent opportunity to interact and interview with firms and practice areas that do not formally recruit at Georgetown.  The MBA Career Center provides detailed information each year on the National MBA Career Fairs and also hosts a Career Fair Bootcamp each Fall.   

 To be successful, upfront preparation is required to include:

• Registering up to 6 weeks in advance

• Applying for positions on the conference websites at least 4 weeks before the conference.  (Firms post positions in the registered attendee section and often make interview selections before the conference).

• Preparing updated resumes and targeted cover letter for application submissions

• Practicing both behavioral interviews and case interviews (as applicable) 

• Researching companies, competitors, industry trends, company products and services, etc. 

Key Fall Conferences

National Black MBA Association Conference and Exposition

Prospanica Career Conference and Expo

Veterans MBA Conference

Reaching Out MBA Conference (ROMBA)

You can review generally publicized industry information online.  Note that Vault resources require an @georgetown.edu login.

• Firsthand.com: Transportation Jobs

• Firsthand.com: Aerospace 

• Firsthand.com: Airline Jobs

• Firsthand.com:  Manufacturing Jobs

• Firsthand.com: Automotive Manufacturing 

• Firsthand.com: Chemicals 

• Firsthand.com: Electronics Manufacturing 

• Firsthand.com: Metals 

• Firsthand.com: Plastics 

These are just a few of the professional association you may wish to explore or join.  Note that many have student memberships as well as publicly available resources about the profession.

• APICS The Association for Operations Management 

• The Association for Manufacturing Excellence 

• Manufacturers Alliance/MAPI 

• National Association of Manufacturers 

• Women in Manufacturing 

• American Transportation Research Institute 

• International Air Transport Association 

• Transportation Marketing & Sales Association (TMSA)