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

Join career-focused clubs that cover the functional areas that you are most interested in such as the Georgetown McDonough Net Impact Club, the Social Impact Internship Fund (SIIF), and MBA Volunteers. 

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.

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.

Networking

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

Student Organizations

Join career-focused clubs that cover the functional areas that you are most interested in such as the Georgetown McDonough Net Impact Club, the Social Impact Internship Fund (SIIF), and MBA Volunteers. 

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 Consulting Club (GCC) has an annual Case Interview Bootcamp which kicks off the club’s case interview training program which lasts the entire fall semester and culminates with the top 40 students having an opportunity to interview on-campus with Marc Cosentino for “Case Interview Certification.” The Case Interview Certification interviews are usually scheduled from Thursday – Sunday the week after Thanksgiving.

The GCC maintains a case book and has subscriptions to commercial websites as one of the club’s membership benefits.

Workshops

Attend David Ohrvall’s Crack the Case workshop and Marc Cosentino’s case interview workshop during the fall semester.  Register for these workshops is through MCV with David Ohrvall usually coming to campus in early October, and Marc Cosentino coming for his workshop in late October.

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 Treks

Student site visits to employer workplaces offer a unique supplement to the traditional on-campus information session, allowing the student to directly experience an employer’s workplace culture and interface with key executives. Treks have brought groups of 10 to 100 students to employer destinations including New York, London, San Francisco, Tokyo, Boston, Hong Kong, Washington, D.C., and more. Advantages of participating in a trek include:

• Students observe the organization and culture first-hand.

• Treks allow students to position themselves as a select group of focused MBAs who have a demonstrated interested in the employer’s organization. 

• Treks are offered in a variety of locations throughout the year, allowing you to take advantage of multiple opportunities and experience a variety of business locales.   

Based on student interest, the Net Impact Club, may organize one day treks during Fall Break and mini-treks on Fridays in the Washington, D.C. metro area throughout the school year.   These are often in partnership with the Emerging Markets Network (EMN), Energy and Cleantech Club and the Business and Government Alliance.  Previous employers have included Share Our Strength, Arabella Advisors, Calvert Foundation, and Ashoka. 

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

Net Impact Conference

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

• B Corp Jobs Board 

• Beeck Center for Social Impact & Innovation

• Case Foundation: A Short Guide to Impact Investing  

• Chronicle of Philanthropy

• Firsthand.com Guide to Nonprofit Jobs: Overview of skills needed, industry trends, the hiring process, and life on the job.  

• Firsthand.com: Overview of Politics, Policy, and Activism: Including background, industry structure, outlook, and resources. 

• Foundation Center: A leading source of information about philanthropy worldwide 

• Georgetown Business for Impact

• Global Impact Investing Network

• Idealist.com: job and volunteer opportunities  

• Impact Job Search Canvas Site (email kk1290@georgetown.edu for access)

• National Center for Charitable Statistics  

• Social Enterprise Alliance  

• Social Venture Network

• The World Bank Group

  • How to Apply to the World Bank Group Young Professionals Program (YPP)

  • The Unofficial Career Management Guide to the World Bank

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.

• Alliance for Non-profit Management 

• American Evaluation Association

• American Society of Association Executives

• Center for Non-Profit Advancement

• National Academy of Public Administration

• National Council of Nonprofit Associations

• Young Nonprofit Professionals Network