Jennifer Coleman – Career Corner

Career Transition, General, Job Search, Resumes

How to Design a LinkedIn Profile When You’re Pursuing Different Career Paths

Question: How do I design my LinkedIn profile if I’m pursuing two different career paths?Answer: It depends.**Just kidding.Kind of.So, say for example, you are an equity research professional and you want to pursue equity research roles, but you want to cast a larger net and…

By Jennifer Coleman- June 26, 2019

General

Remembering Herb Crowder: Founder of the Armstrong Center for Alumni Career Services

On 24 April 2019, the Darden family suffered a great loss. Herb Crowder, Darden alumnus from the Class of 1966 and founder of The Armstrong Center for Alumni Career Services, passed away last week after a prolonged battle with brain cancer.When I joined Darden in November 2015, I was…

By Jennifer Coleman- May 8, 2019

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

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 Management

Job Fit: The Employee Perspective

At a career services conference of my peers last month, I had the pleasure of listening to Dr. Brooks Holtom, a senior associate dean at Georgetown University’s McDonough School of Business, present some of his research around human capital retention. Dr. Holtom’s presentation, entitled Job Fit: The Employer…

By Jennifer Coleman- June 27, 2018