Career Corner – The Armstrong Center for Alumni Career Services

General, Industry Explanation, Job Search

Market Pulse: Insights From Recruiter and Alumna Crosby Baker (MBA ’10)

At the Darden School’s Armstrong Center for Alumni Career Services (ACS), we are often asked questions about executive recruiters. Job seekers want to understand recruiters’ perspective: What are they seeing? How do they operate? What do they look for?What better way to get answers to these questions than…

By Jennifer Coleman- January 18, 2019

Career Transition, Job Search

Hire a Hoo: The Darden Hiring Network

About a year ago, a member of Darden’s Alumni Association Board of Directors shared with me an email called “Friends of BDO.” On a regular basis, BDO — the global accounting firm — delivers an email that highlights bios of executives in transition. This email is designed to help its network…

By Jennifer Coleman- December 18, 2018

Career Transition, Job Search

The Sport of Interviewing: Warm-Up, Game Time and Post-Game

“But, Missy, I thought the whole point of going to Darden was to transition into the sports industry?”My classmates, friends and family have all asked this question in the months since I accepted a job at a top-tier consulting firm. “Didn’t you want to be the commissioner…

By Missy Jenkins- November 26, 2018

Advisory Services, Career Management

Alumni Career Services Announces Executive Coaching

By Gwen Mellor (EMBA ’13) and Jen Coleman (Executive Director, Alumni Career Services) With the goal of being a resource to all of its graduates, at all stages of their careers, Alumni Career Services (ACS) is introducing a new coaching offering for degreed Darden alumni: Executive Coaching. ACS continues…

By Jennifer Coleman- October 26, 2018

Advisory Services, General

Getting to Know Darden Alumni Career Services Coach Sameer Sankaran

How did you become a career coach?My path really began while I was working for Microsoft (the first time around). I found myself gravitating towards helping MBAs who were seeking jobs there, and always getting feedback that whatever I provided was especially helpful in their job search. From there…

By Jennifer Coleman- September 27, 2018

Career Transition, Industry Explanation

Understanding an Equity Offer

The prospect of joining a high-potential startup can be very exciting. Startups and private companies sometimes entice recruits with an offer of equity compensation to offset lower cash compensation (base and bonus). The equity represents ownership — having a stake in the company you’re helping to grow and succeed…

By Marty Speight- August 27, 2018

Career Transition

My Inner FAQs (On the Dos, Don’ts and Doubts of Pursuing a Passion)

Our guest blogger this month is Darden alumnus, Adam Green (MBA ’93).When I told my son, it seemed like a good plan. We were eating nachos in Culpeper, Virginia, en route to his UVA visit. “I’m going to leave finance and take up writing,” I said.“That’s…

By Adam Green- July 26, 2018