The Career Management Center

Students enter business school with diverse career interests and various levels of job search and career planning skills. As such, the services provided by the Fuqua Career Management Center (CMC) are designed to meet a wide range of interests and needs.

The CMC helps students identify their career goals and teaches them how to market themselves effectively to target employers. “We don’t just provide services and resources to help students find jobs now,” explains Associate Dean Sheryle Dirks. “We want them to graduate with career-building strategies and skills they can use throughout their careers.”

The Career Management Center Mission Statement

As a leading global business school career center, Fuqua’s Career Management Center advances quality relationships and fosters learning across multiple stakeholder groups including students, alumni, employers, and the Fuqua and Duke communities.

We enhance student and alumni success through proactive career and job search preparation to manage their goals as leaders of consequence in a rapidly changing, diverse employment marketplace.

Collaborating with employers, we facilitate meaningful partnerships that meet mutual objectives, foster information exchange, and enable talent acquisition and development.

We serve as an integral part of the Fuqua and Duke communities, generating thought leadership, sharing best practices, developing resources, and building networks through the development of educational, professional, and cross-cultural experiences.

The CMC functions to

  • Educate students about hiring trends in job functions, industries, and companies of interest

  • Prepare students for the job search

  • Support students throughout their career advancement and/or job search process

  • Market Fuqua students and alumni to a range of employers

  • Connect students to the global job market through appropriate channels in the Fuqua and Duke networks, which may include recruiting events on and off campus.

We offer group and individual services to help you to answer the big picture questions:

  • What do you want to do?

  • What is your overall job search strategy?

  • What is your branding statement or value proposition?

  • What is your personal marketing plan?

  • What barriers will you face?

We help you refine your career advancement and job search tools:

  • Target list

  • Communication and social networking strategy

  • Library and industry resources

  • Networking correspondence

  • Résumé reviews

  • Cover letter reviews

  • Mock interviews

We help you maximize your success:

  • Offer evaluation

  • Offer negotiation

  • On-the-job objectives and questions 

Strong Recruiting Partnerships

The CMC also partners with employers to help them achieve their recruiting and talent acquisition goals. This support includes hosting recruiting events and interviews on campus and virtually, creating convenient recruiting channels for employers who choose not to visit the campus, helping companies make strategic recruiting decisions, and marketing Fuqua students and alumni to new companies. As a result, the number, diversity, and quality of these organizations make for an impressive portfolio of recruiting partners.