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 build skills that are highly applicable in entertainment, media, and sports careers. Check out the Georgetown Marketing Association and the OPIM Majors Group.

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. You can filter and search employers by McDonough core employers, number of recent international hires, and many other factors to find your perfect fit.

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 Georgetown Operations and Management Association, the Graduate Marketing Association, and Georgetown Entertainment and Media Alliance (GEMA) 

McDonough Career Center 

Refer to McDonough Career Center Career Coach and Peer Advisor biographies in the 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. You can filter and search employers by McDonough core employers, number of recent international hires, and many other factors to find your perfect fit.

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.

Student Organizations

The Georgetown Entertainment and Media Alliance (GEMA) provides the McDonough School of Business community with educational, networking and career opportunities in the media, entertainment, film and music industries. 

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. 

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. 

You can review generally publicized, MBA-specific consulting industry information online.  Note that Firsthand resources require an @georgetown.edu login to access free versions of all publications.

• Firsthand.com: Firsthand Career Guide to Media, Journalism and Entertainment Careers – A must-read overview that discusses skills needed, types of jobs in media, journalism, and entertainment, the hiring process, and life on the job.

• Firsthand.com: Firsthand Guide to Top Media and Entertainment Jobs 

• Firsthand.com: Entertainment Media overview – provides a history of the industry along with description of the industry structure and outlook.   

• Firsthand.com: A Day in the Life of a Strategic Planning Entertainment Executive 

• Trade publication websites:  The Hollywood Reporter; Variety; Billboard 

• Sports Business Daily

• The Athletic

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.

• Sports Marketing Association

• North American Society for Sport Management

• Public Relations Society of America (PRSA) 

• Independent Film and Television Alliance

• Association of American Publishers