Graduate Career Services

Advance Your Career

Graduate Career Services (GCS) assists in launching or advancing your career.  We help you achieve your aspirations by providing a range of professional development and career coaching services and connecting you with leading employers in your field of choice.

The Graduate Career Services team facilitates our Advanced Professional Development courses and summer internships—both of which are part of the Full-Time MBA core curriculum. Students of all MBA, executive, and specialty master’s programs have access to GCS career and professional development services. You'll be prepared for everything, from understanding your personal and career goals to offering negotiation and acceptance.

Our three-pronged approach includes:

Career Coaching

  • One-on-one meetings
  • 1 credit hour course

Professional Development

  • Workshops
  • Seminars

Employer Relations

  • Site visits
  • On-campus visits

Our services 

Career Development

  • Résumé Building
  • Building an Online Presence
  • Mock Interviews
  • One-on-one career coaching

Professional Development

  • Networking
  • Personality type and team dynamics
  • Salary research and negotiation
  • Personal financial planning
  • Professional communication
  • Presentation skills

 

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Graduate Career Services

Our goal is to help you become market-ready. See how we do it.

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Connecting employers with skilled business professionals

 

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Find available positions and career development services

With a completed profile, students can search and apply for thousands of jobs and internships, research companies, register to attend events, schedule career coaching appointments, and gain access to other job search and career development tools.

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Work with outstanding corporate partners

Graduate Career Services works with outstanding corporate clients—like Maersk—to identify top talent and prepare them to immediately make an impact when starting their professional careers.

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Preseason Career Kickoff

We connect Auburn Graduate Business Students with employer partners, some of whom are previous graduates looking to give back to the very Auburn MBA program that set them up for success.

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Our highly-desirable graduates are...

Employed in numerous industries

GCS employment statistics graphic. Stats are as follows: Government 3%, Real Estate 3%, Transportation 4%, Financial Services 17%, Healthcare 5%, Energy 4%, Technology 8%, Manufacturing 7%, Other 19%, and Consulting 30%

Hired by top companies

  • Accenture
  • BBVA
  • Chick-fil-a
  • Coca-Cola
  • Deloitte
  • Delta
  • ExxonMobil
  • EY
  • Intel
  • KPMG
  • Lockheed Martin
  • Regions



86%
Accepted offers within 3 months of graduating in 2023
100%
obtain a summer internship

Meet the Team

Siobhan Patterson

Siobhan Patterson

Graduate Career Services Specialist
(334) 844-2972
skg0006@auburn.edu
4067 Horton-Hardgrave Hall

Kathryn Burroughs

Kathryn Burroughs

Assistant Director of Career Services
(334) 844-2940
krb0116@auburn.edu
4065 Horton-Hardgrave Hall

Alex Ritenbaugh

Alex Ritenbaugh

Director of Graduate Career Services
(334) 844‐2426
alex.ritenbaugh@auburn.edu
4031 Horton-Hardgrave Hall