Career Management Center
The Career Management Center (CMC) and its team of professionals serve as a key consultant to students in the career management process, whether they are looking to accelerate within their current organizations or wish to change careers. The CMC accomplishes this goal by offering students access to career resources and networking opportunities. Ultimately, the CMC is designed to teach students lifelong career management skills that will assist them throughout their professional lives. The CMC does not “get jobs” for students but rather advises EMBAs on developing the most effective career management strategy possible based on their individual goals.
All currently enrolled EMBA students may access the CMC’s wide array of resources, which include:
- Virtual and in-person one-on-one career advising/coaching sessions
- Webinars
- Extensive web-based multi-media resources for career mobility (including self-assessment, conducting industry & company research, marketing yourself, networking, interviewing, and managing offers) and professional development topics such as Managing Conflict at Work, Building Impactful Presentations and Executive Presence
- Student and alumni networking database
- Job posting database for potential employers
- Online resume database
- Campus recruiting (for students who qualify) focused on entry-level (associate) MBA jobs
Update Resume and Take Career Leader Assessment (Optional)
Welcome to the EMBA program! The EMBA Career Management team looks forward to meeting you in person at our Career Management Orientation presentation on August 15th, 2025.
If you would like to take a few career management-related steps prior to the start of the program, we recommend the following:
Update your resume using the CBS Branded Resume Format:
Students who wish to revise their resumes to include the CBS Executive MBA program may refer to the attached CBS Resume Guidelines. Access to our more extensive resume resources will be available after the start of the program.
Take CareerLeader, the web-based self-assessment tool:
A key step in your career management process is self-assessment. CareerLeader, a web-based self-assessment tool, is available to you.
CareerLeader takes about 60 minutes to complete and asks questions about your interests, skills, and values. The detailed report generated:
- Offers an expert assessment of your unique pattern of business-relevant interests, motivators, and skills.
- Matches your profile to specific business-related careers when compared to a database of hundreds of thousands of business professionals.
- Helps you understand what organizational cultures will be the best fit for you.
Please see the login details noted below to learn more about Career Leader and take the assessment.
- Visit: https://www.careerleader.com/sign-in.html and follow the onscreen prompts to the NEW USER section of the page
- Enter your Columbia Business School Lifetime email address (example: [email protected])
- Enter your registration key: columbiagsb-heavy (the hyphen is required)
- Once you have successfully logged in and registered your account, you will be brought to your user dashboard. There, you will be able to click on TAKE THE TEST for each of our three inventories (INTERESTS, MOTIVATORS, SKILLS).
- After completing all three inventories, you will be able to view your personalized results in each of the six sections on the dashboard (for which there are buttons to click). Your printable personalized CareerLeader Report is available within the Toolbox section of the user dashboard.
Necessary Forms and Downloads
Attachments: CBS Experienced Resume Format Checklist & Samples August 2024 PDF
Questions? Need more information?
Contact:
Kathia Regalado
[email protected]