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Reflections on MINT & MBA Programs

September 10, 2009 | Author: Promise Phelon | Filed under: Career Change, Job Hunting, UpMo News

I just wrapped up another meeting with members of a graduate school interested in adopting the UpMo MINT Program. Two takeaways: there are a lot of MBAs In Transition; and the tone of career-center leadership is changing—in a good way.

When I was getting my MBA, the promise was, “We’ll find you a job.” (Of course, I didn’t want to go into investment banking or Big-Six consulting—yes there were six then.) Now, the tone is different. More career center leaders are saying, “We want to provide our alumni, recent graduates and current students with the skills they need not only to be successful in their next jobs, but to land them.” Right on!

Another sign that you own your career

This is critical, because careers are too dynamic for anyone else to own them but us. With longer careers, more moves and the need to leverage a network, you need to own your own destiny. Sure, your boss, your company, your undergraduate or graduate school career center will help you sharpen your tools for the hunt, but they won’t do it for you. Job-hunting is becoming its own skill much like managing corporate politics became a skill as corporations got larger and the opportunity for upwardly mobility became an option for more people.

And in the eyes of career center leaders, that’s the key to MINT—helping more students and more alumni become upwardly mobile—helping more people own and succeed in their careers for the duration.

UpMo’s MINT program does those things, while also delivering to MBA schools higher student and alum engagement, tighter alumni communities and the ability to translate desires for program, school and university growth and improvement into action. Unlike other career partnerships available, MINT uniquely helps MBAs in transition build deep and lasting relationships with professionals beyond the walls of the university.

To offer MINT to MBAs in Transition, career centers and alumni organizations purchase bulk, discounted subscriptions to UpMo’s intelligent, personalized online career management service. Partnering universities then distribute free, three-to-six-month MINT subscriptions to MBA students, graduates and alumni, adding a new layer of differentiating program value that far exceeds the small investment in students’ success.

“What new layers of differentiating program value” you ask? MINT

  • Relieves the burden on overtaxed, resource-stretched career and alumni staff dealing with a deluge of requests from new students and job-seeking alum who demand more value
  • Tangibly and explicitly communicates your commitment to MBA students’ continued success
  • Builds stickier relationships with students and grads to encourage greater involvement
  • Differentiates your MBA program offer by adding value that lives as long as a graduate’s career
  • Encourages greater donor support and increased endowments from successful graduates
  • Provides exclusive career intelligence and empirical research for an inside look into the success habits of elite, high-earning professionals

So what are you waiting for? Send an e-mail today—right now, even, while it’s on your mind—to learn more about how your school or career center can benefit from MINT.

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