Job Search Resources
The Carlson Business Career Center is dedicated to connecting our students and alumni with employment opportunities, career events, and professional contacts. Utilize the resources below to design a customized job search strategy that supports your individual career goals.
Job Search and Research Resources
Handshake is the U of M's online portal to jobs, internships, and career events for students and alumni
LinkedIn will provide suggested positions based on your profile, you may also search LinkedIn for positions posted by employers
Access by registering with your UMN email address. View company profiles, browse graduate leadership development programs, and start identifying companies that sponsor H-1B visas. *This platform is geared towards Specialty Masters and early career professionals with less than 3 years of experience.
Access by registering with your UMN email address. View 1000+ company profiles, browse 500+ graduate leadership development programs, and identify companies that sponsor H-1B visas.
Indeed provides millions of jobs from thousands of company websites, job boards, and newspapers.
Companies that are doing the best when it comes to creating and retaining a diverse workforce and enacting fair and equitable measures for their employees.
Relish Careers connects seekers with companies looking for top talent!
Workmaze Guides - Top 100 MBA-hiring companies worldwide. Guide is updated monthly and can be used check open jobs and see the companies that are open to sponsorship.
Comprehensive job search tool for 16k+ climate tech jobs from 500 companies, updated daily. Also has blog posts that explain the climate landscape and feature in-depth profiles for 50 companies.
City Data gives you information about average cost of living, weather trends, crime reports, etc. Great resource for out-of-town searches.
AngelList allows you to search startups that are currently hiring
International Students and Global Searches
Database of H1B employees for international students - The database contains state, metro and US-wide H1B records of all companies who have submitted H1B visa applications for the most recent 12-month period available.
H1B Visa Salary is a database containing salary information of H1B Visa.
HIB Grader is a website with additional information about H1B roles
Careernomics- can be accessed by registering with your UMN email address. View company profiles, browse graduate leadership development programs, and start identifying companies that sponsor H-1B visas. *This platform is geared towards Specialty Masters and early career professionals with less than 3 years of experience.
Career search resources outside of the US - The GoinGlobal database contains resources for finding employment opportunities in more than 40 countries. Resources include: online job sites, employment trends, salaries, legal considerations etc.
Workmaze Guides - Top 100 MBA jobs worldwide. This guide is updated monthly and can be used in two ways. One is that it should be checked regularly at it will provide open jobs to apply to. Second, it will list the companies that are open to OCR and help you craft a running list of companies to target even if they currently don't have a posting you are interested in.
MBA-Exchange - can be accessed by registering with your UMN email address. View 1000+ company profiles, browse 500+ graduate leadership development programs, and identify companies that sponsor H-1B visas.
Highered is a new resource for global internship and full-time opportunities. Register using your UMN email address and start searching.
H1B Sponsors is another database available for International Students to search for H1B sponsors by cities, states, employers and job title including information of sponsorship and salary level.
Where Our Grads Go List, by graduate program, of where our grads have gone over the last 3 years and which roles were sponsored.
General and Unexpected Job Search
Job search strategies outside of on-campus recruiting - Presentation that outlines some key considerations for those who are changing functions during their career search (e.g., moving from marketing to finance)
Unexpected Job Search - Presentation that highlights some basic strategies and tips for those who have recently been laid off/terminated.
Career Changers and Functional Searches
Preparing for the consulting job search - A comprehensive checklist that includes specific resources and steps to follow to prepare for the consulting recruiting process.
Career Roadmaps
Use these roadmaps to start designing your customized career search strategy. These guides highlight many common career activities that you will likely encounter, and place them along a specific timeline for Carlson's different student populations. Although there will be some unique challenges and specific questions for you to consider along the way, these roadmaps are a great place to start.
Building Credentials/Pitching a Stretch Project
Pitching Your own Project - A presentation that outlines a process for creating your own internship, volunteer, or full-time experience. Also provides some verbiage to use with employers about the value in hiring a business graduate student.
Creating Your Own Internship at a Non-profit - A guide on where to start, who to contact and what to say.
Activities for Gaining Experience - A listing of Carlson and external opportunities to gain experience.