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College of Management Undergraduate Career Program The mission of the College of Management Undergraduate Career Program is to offer exemplary career resources for our students, enabling them to develop individual plans that will lead to challenging and rewarding opportunities while in college, upon graduation, and throughout their careers. Our goal is for all students to have a great job by graduation, based on the portfolio of excellent experiences they developed during college. - During the freshmen year, students develop a resume and cover letter, learn about numerous business career paths, buildprofessional communication skills, and are introduced to the Georgia Tech career development resources and many useful internship and job search strategies.
- During the program, students meet with the College of Management Career Counselor to discuss how their interests match up with a rewarding career.
- During one-on-one meetings, academic advisors inform students about the Career Services atGeorgia Tech, including the Career Buzz job and internship database, the Department of Professional Practice,and the Career Development staff at the College of Management.
- Our Career Development Staff is an experienced team that provides a link between recruiters and management students through job postings, career and internship fairs, company information sessions and in-depth career development seminars.
- A Career Development Class is offered to students during their Junior or Senior Year at the College of Management. The class focuses on the advanced job search strategies, interviewing skills, business etiquette, salary negotiation, and communication skills that recruiters expect.
| Spring ’09 Graduation Stats | Median Salary: | $50,000 | | Highest Salary: | $80,000 |
Some companies that recruit our students
for internships, co-ops and full-time positions |
| AT&T | Bank of America | | Capital One | Equifax | | Deloitte Consulting | Ernst & Young | | Georgia-Pacific Corporation | KPMG | | Lockheed Martin | Target | | PricewaterhouseCoopers | Siemens | | Southern Company | SunTrust |
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Georgia Tech Management students perform extremely well in internshipsbefore graduation and full-time positions after graduation, based ontheir strong problem-solving abilities and excellent communicationskills. Recruiters also seek the solid leadership skills that GeorgiaTech develops in students. A Georgia Tech Management degree can open doors in countless career fields. In addition to corporate opportunities, Management majors also perform well in the government and non-profit sectors. Also, you do not have to practice your concentration in an organizationthat focuses on that field. For example, you could be an IT manager atan accounting firm, or you could work in operations at a financialservices organization.
You can also choose concentrations outside of those covered below,such as Strategic Management or Organizational Behavior. Thesespecializations are used in most management positions, includingconsulting and human resources. For more information on these fields,contact one of the many College of Management faculty members in theseareas. If you are considering studying Management at Georgia Tech, please read the brief summaries of our main concentration areas below to determine which areas interest you most. | Accounting | Overview: | Accounting is the study of how organizations track their income and assets over time. Accountants engage in a wide variety of activities, including preparing financial statements, recording business transactions, computing costs and efficiency gains from new technologies, participating in strategies for mergers and acquisitions, quality management, developing and using information systems to track financial performance, tax strategy, and health care benefits management. | Skills Often Required: | Analytical skills, Ability to synthesize, Computer skills, Initiative, Logic | Career Options: | Audit, Budget Analysis, Financial Management, Management Accounting, Tax | Average starting salary: | $46,718
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| | Finance | Overview: | Finance is the study of how an organization finds money to operate, grows the organization, makes acquisitions, plans for the financial future and manages any cash on hand. Opportunities are available in large multinational companies or smaller organizations with high growth prospects. | Skills Often Required: | Analytical skills, Ability to synthesize, Initiative, Creativity, Communication skills | Career Options: | Commercial Banking, Corporate Finance, Financial Planning, Insurance, Investment Banking,
Money Management, Real Estate | Average starting salary: | $47,239 |
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| Information Technology Management | Overview: | IT Management focuses on the role of information systems in organizations and the design and development of such systems. It includes topics such as electronic commerce, database systems, systems analysis and design, business data communications, technology enabled process improvement, and other concepts related to the application of information technology to solve business problems | Skills Often Required: | Technical, Perceptual, Problem-solving | Career Options: | Information Systems Management, Data Center Operations, Information Technology Consulting, Business Analyst, Process Improvement Consulting | Average starting salary: | $47,648
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| | Marketing | Overview: | Marketing is the communication about a product or service, with the purpose of encouraging recipients of the communication to purchase or use the product or service. Marketing is also the process of planning and executing the conception, pricing, promotion and distribution of ideas, goods and services to satisfy customers.
It involves discovering what customers want, then setting out to meet their needs. | Skills Often Required: | Communication, Persuasion, Creativity, Problem-solving, Decision-making | Career Options: | Market Research, Advertising,
Brand and Product Management,
Public Relations,
Sales | Average starting salary: | $40,161 |
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| International Business | Overview: | International business is the study of current international business patterns and their history, the evolving social, political, legal and economic environments in home and host countries as they impact on international business operations and strategy, the major economic constructs relating to international flows, the financial/monetary forms and institutions that measure and facilitate international transactions, and the selection of optimal strategies for firms facing international opportunities and constraints.
| Skills Often Required: | Language abilities, Interpersonal skills, Evaluation/Assessment skills, Open-mindedness, Flexibility
| Career Options: | Global Operations for a US company, Business development for an international company | Average starting salary: | |
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| | Operations | Overview: | Operations Management is the functional area of business primarily devoted to the planning, creation, and management of an organization's resources and processes that create products or services. The set of resources includes an organization's work force, equipment, information, distribution system and materials, all of which typically represent a significant portion of an organization's total costs and controllable assets. In both manufacturing and service organizations, the Operations Management function has the responsibility for the evolution of the environment from which the organization's product or service is created. | Skills Often Required: | Trouble-shooting, Process improvement, Resource Planning, Problem-solving, Logic and Analysis | Career Options: | Service Operations, Supply Chain Management, Logistics | Average starting salary: | $47,120 |
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