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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

Career Transition, Job Search

Point of View: The Washington DC Area Job Market

Having been a career coach to MBAs for the last seven years, I am often asked for my opinion on the Washington, D.C., job market. Not surprisingly, given its proximity to Charlottesville, D.C. has the greatest number of Darden alumni of any major metropolitan area. (Approximately 2,000…

By Lindsay Guthrie- May 23, 2019

Career Management, Career Transition, Job Search

Interviewing While Pregnant: Answering the Most Common Questions

One of the most common coaching conversations we have in Darden’s Armstrong Center for Alumni Career Services centers on how to plan and raise a family while also trying to balance career trajectory and working. We can all rattle off the many books written on this topic, and we…

By Lindsay Guthrie- April 1, 2019

Career Transition, Job Search, Networking

Take These 2 Key Steps to Make an Extreme Career Transition Possible

In 2014, after over a decade in uniform, I left the Marine Corps and began my Darden journey with the Global Executive MBA Class of 2016 cohort, along with my first civilian jobs. I was a health care services operations manager, a federal audit readiness accountant, a marketing director, a…

By Jeremiah McCloud- February 27, 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

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