It all started when Regina Regazzi, the new assistant dean of Career Management at the UCLA business school, was looking at the list of fresh 2011 graduates and wondering where they would get a job after the ceremony.
She started asking around if there was some information on students from previous years. What she learned surprised her: her colleagues didn’t even know where their graduates worked. And then she decided to solve this problem.
Top Student Satisfaction
In accordance with the Poets&Quants article, in five years, the career center at Anderson School of Management (UCLA) became the top one for student satisfaction. The factors this ranking was based on included the ability of a student to land a job and the career center’s living up to the students’ expectations. That’s how the university got the best scores among former and current students. It wasn’t the only one, though: Indiana University’s business school joined in with its mentoring program, as well as Chicago Booth, Kellogg and Darden.
But no university has been so well-regarded up till now as Anderson. Chicago Booth, by the way, was acknowledged as one of the top business schools with the best MBA teaching faculty. Northwestern (Kellogg) business school was ranked fourth in the Poets&Quants “TOP Best Of The Rest Schools”.
UCLA Takes Care of Everyone
Regina Regazzi owes her tremendous success purely to that day in 2011, when she first had the idea of a career center for students. As she states, the school really cares about its alumni.
The Anderson career team starts working with students even before their orientation, learning their interests, desires and aspirations, profession-wise. They get this information initially from the students’ resumes and application papers. Then, they have a talk with each new arrival and try to find out where their interests lie. After orientation, the center staff continues to monitor current students to learn how they develop and how their hopes change as a result of studying.
This meticulous work brought great results: now, the career management team knows where 99% of the university’s students are going to work after they leave school.
A similar strategy has been implemented at Darden School of Business (Virginia). The university keeps close ties with employers in the state to help students find jobs at local businesses. In exchange, the school team lets employers know where to find best candidates for any upcoming vacancy.
As the assistant dean of Darden says, it’s all to help the right candidates find the right businesses. The school takes students to special trips where they can meet prospective employers from Wall Street banks.
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