Graduate Business Career Services (GBCS)

To ensure that graduate business students obtain positions that match their skills and goals, GBCS offers a full range of career planning and job search support services.

Whether it’s helping individuals develop a strategy to advance their career within their current organization or providing connections for candidates to seek new opportunities commensurate with their graduate business degree and rich experiences, GBCS staff provide a wealth of expertise. GBCS maintains valuable employer relationships to enhance employment prospects.

Career management activities:
Florida graduate business students enjoy the following benefits of GBCS:

• Individual career advisement
• Staff/student appointments
• Career assessment
• Résumé and job-search correspondence review
• Videotaped mock interviews

Career related workshops on topics including Résumé and Cover Letter Writing, Effective Interviewing, Maximizing Career Fairs, Careers with the Federal Government, Interviewing Effectively, and others upon request.

Employment outreach:

• Lists of current graduate business employment openings
• Résumé CDs
• Registration with the University’s on-line résumé referral and on-campus recruiting systems

Recruiting:

• On-campus recruiting program
• Corporate site visits
• Bi-weekly e-mails containing a list of positions for graduate business students
• Gator Graduate Career Day (Job Fair) / Gator Career Hiring Forum
• University of Florida Career Showcase (Job Fair)
• Black Graduate Business Career Fair (Job Fair)
• Hispanic Graduate Business Career Fair (Job Fair)
• Global MBA/Masters Career Conference (Job Fair)
• National Association of Women MBA Conference & Career Fair (Job Fair)

Career library:

• Alumni database
• Reference books and directories
• Industry/function/location materials