由 Kelly » 2005-03-24 22:22
I agree with Aller's opinion!
I wrote a mail to know more about the GU international students’ internship opportunities and job opportunities. This is a mail from the first year student in Georgetown! Hope it would be helpful for you!
This email might be long, but hopefully it responds to all of your questions. Historically, I do think that GU has been hampered by the Career Management team.
Candidly, the team is exceptional, but has not had strong leadership
And vision. I am from the US and have not felt like my opportunities were limited, but I know it has been challenging for some of my classmates.
I happen to be part of the selection committee tasked with selecting the new Director of Career Management. We expect to have the new director selected before the end of this academic year. We have identified more than one candidate who I think has the skills to directly impact these issues in career management. Personally, I am thrilled at the prospect of working with them next year. The student team that is part of selection has identified opportunities for international students to be one of the most important areas to address. I have been impressed with the conversation and creative ideas that our top candidates have suggested. They see that there are short term solutions that need to be put in place to immediately impact incoming students and long term solutions that not only overcome the past issues, but put Georgetown on the forefront MBA programs for international students. I may sound overly enthusiastic, but having met the top candidates, I am thrilled.
In response to some of your specific questions, I sent an email to our Career Management team. As I mentioned, they are great people to work with and set tons of information back to me. Here are some of the details...
"It depends if (NAME) wants to work in the USA or if she is willing to work in Hong Kong or Singapore post-graduation. If she wants to stay in the United States, it is going to be a lot of hard work for her to get employed. Most of the consulting firms that interview on campus at Georgetown are looking to hire US Citizens for their government practices only. However, many of the large consulting firms do look for Georgetown international students who are willing to return to their home countries in Asia and work there. With all of the recent economic development in Asia, all firms are looking for US educated foreign nationals to return to those countries. Here is some data from the Class of 2004:
196 students were seeking employment. 45 of those were foreign nationals. Within 3 months of graduation, 34 of those 45 had accepted a job - 76%. (The overall number was 88%.) Of those 34 foreign nationals who had accepted positions, 50% found jobs in the US and 50% went to work abroad. That means that only 17 of the 45 foreign nationals found full-time employment in the US within 3 months of graduation. Only 1 student went to work in Hong Kong. It was Wei Li at Phillip Morris Asia- World Wide Duty Free.
In general, getting a job in the US is difficult for international
MBAs. This is not specific to Georgetown, but true of MBA programs in general. If students are interested in going home post-graduation, then it is much easier to find a transition from the US to that"
International Full Time Placements (including in Europe, Asia, Central
America and South America).
Employment for M04's:
14% of seeking students
Mean Salary = $66,434
Internships for M05's:
14.9% of seeking students
Mean Monthly Salary = $4,923