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These top rankings all start with motivated students ready to delve into designing a career path. Students set the stage for a productive two years working with Foster’s MBA Career Management team, who provide expert career coaching; insightful, relevant thought leadership on professional development, and interactive activities like Radical Collaboration and the award-winning Brand Essence workshop

Deep connections to the business community in Seattle and beyond take you further

These relationships facilitate excellent career opportunities and pay dividends in your education. From guest teaching and mentoring to competition judging and career coaching, your access to business leaders will enrich your time at Foster.

Whether you wish to land in Seattle or around the world, Foster can help you reach your career goals. Foster students find roles at tech companies, consulting firms, consumer packaged goods companies, financial services firms, startups, and many more. Visit our Full-time MBA Career Management page to see more employment statistics.

MBA Career Management Services

You are assigned a career coach for your first and second year in addition to other coaches who are available to you throughout your Foster experience. Your coaches will work with you so you can strengthen your skill sets, clarify your career goals, and understand how to effectively reach out to employers. From resume and cover letter advice to multiple mock interviews, your career coaches will help you evaluate your interests and experience and develop a personalized strategy for success.
Company Information Sessions are held several times a week during the lunch hour, afternoons, and sometimes in the evenings. Whether in-person or virtual, national or exclusively for Foster students, these sessions are an opportunity to connect with representatives from a variety of organizations large and small. Students learn about internships and employment opportunities, and often can network with alumni who have developed successful careers in those companies.
The MBA Career Management staff lead treks to visit companies and trips to attend national career fairs, enabling students to find opportunities beyond the many employers who recruit on campus. Students can network with Foster alumni at receptions sponsored by MBA Career Services throughout the country.
First-year students benefit from MBA Career Management’s professional development learning curriculum. Every two weeks during Fall Quarter, students participate in active learning labs designed to help students determine their career strategy, build business case and behavioral interviewing skills, create effective resumes, a LinkedIn profile and communications pieces, and build a robust network.

Conversations on Careers and Professional Life is a podcast hosted and produced by Gregory Heller, Senior Associate Director of MBA Career Management at the Foster School of Business. In each episode, Gregory speaks with guests about topics related to job searches, professional development, public speaking, resilience, and mindfulness. Guests include current MBA candidates and past students, faculty and staff, and outside experts.

Mentoring is a large part of leadership and also a big part of the Foster culture. There are plenty of avenues for students to become mentors and mentees. From formal mentoring programs, such as Fritzky Leadership Fellows and the executive mentor program, to informal mentoring from second years, and the alumni-led Mentoring Circles of Color. The executive Mentor Program, led by the Career Management team, connects MBA students with senior executives in the business community. MBA students bid for their choice of mentor and groups of 5-6 students are assigned to each mentor. Most groups meet with their mentors several times during the calendar year. Students draw on their mentor’s depth of experience to explore a variety of business issues.

Once you have accepted your offer of admission, you are encouraged to jump-start your career preparation right away. Look for announcements about how you can engage with a career coach to plan your summer. Additionally, in May, the MBA Career Management team will launch a Summer Online Professional Development Course to help you prepare for the fall.

Summer Experiences

Foster Full-time MBA students describe what they learned from first-hand experiences at leading tech companiesRead More

Foster MBAs Share Their Technology Internship Experiences

Foster Full-time MBA students Gabriel Golez, Sravani Shivakumar, Charles Sisemseghan, Grace Weinstein, and Dakshinaa Vinod share their summer internship experiences in strategy roles across the industryRead More

Crafting Competitive Advantage: Foster MBAs in Summer Strategy Internships

Foster Full-time MBA students Austin Katigan, Gabriel Yeung, Kanika Prakash, and Daniel Yang share their summer internship experiences in the finance industryRead More

Crunching Numbers, Crushing Goals: Foster MBAs Reveal the Secrets of Summer Internships in Finance