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C a r e e r L a u n c h
Supporting You from Plan ning to Pursuit
Noël Bejarano
MBA 06
Associate
Hearthstone, Inc.
San Rafael, California
Summer internship:
Summer Associate
Cherokee Investment Partners
Previous degree:
BA, Social Anthropology
Harvard University
Job prior to Haas:
Captain, U.S. Army & Financial Analyst
Goldman, Sachs & Co.
Miami, FL
“At Haas, my military background was just
another element of diversity. I decided
to pursue an MBA because I wanted
to build on the management skills I’d
learned in the Army and couple them with
strong business skills as I transitioned
into a career in real estate finance and
development.”
“I obtained both my summer internship
and full-time positions through oncampus
recruiting at Haas. Fellow
students concentrating in real estate
helped me hone my interviewing skills,
and a career services interview coach put
me through my paces in a taped mock
interview. Both activities helped me to
get a great summer internship. During
my second year, I utilized on-campus
recruiting to secure my current full-time
job with an industry-leading real estate
private equity firm.”
While you are in the Berkeley MBA program, you will learn
how to manage a successful career and prepare yourself
to secure the job you want after graduation.
You may have well-defined career goals when you arrive at Haas, or you may
want to test the waters using elective courses, club activities, and summer
internships. One of the many roles of the Chetkovich Career Center is to
assist you in thinking strategically about your career objectives, to offer you a
structured approach to tackling today’s job market.
As a first-year Berkeley MBA student, you will accelerate your preparations
for the job search process during an intensive, two-day Career Management
Conference in the fall. The purpose of the conference is to educate you on how
to pursue a job successfully and how to set and manage career objectives now
and in the future. “The conference is proof of how seriously we take the subject
of careers for our students,” says Abby Scott, Career Center executive director.
“The regular first year MBA curriculum stops completely for two full days so
that students can focus on mastering the career search process.”
The Career Services Office also sponsors a variety of other programs, such as
the Practitioner Training series, where professionals from firms such as JP
Morgan, Goldman Sachs & Co., Bain, and McKinsey & Co. are invited into the
classroom to train Berkeley MBA students how to apply their classroom skills
to the real world. Haas’ Expert Practical Training Premium programs bring
outside groups such as Training the Street and Corporate Scenes to Haas for
1-2 day seminars and workshops. Students interested in real estate careers
have the opportunity to be partnered with a practicing professional through
the school’s Analyzing Careers in Real Estate program.
The Career Center also offers counseling services at all stages of the
career planning process. The career advising staff consists of professional
counselors and second-year career coaches who together offer a broad range
of training and business management experience.
Four senior-level account managers, each with different areas of industry
expertise, manage thousands of on-campus interviews, hundreds of
relationships with companies, and numerous career fairs and networking
receptions. They also monitor a web-based job posting service that provides
you with hundreds of targeted job postings each year. The Center also
has an account manager based in New York City, focused on maximizing
opportunities for Berkeley MBA students with financial services and other
firms on the East Coast.
The Center organizes special visits by Berkeley MBA students to finance and
high technology firms. You can visit Wall Street finance firms in New York, or
travel on a “Tech Trek” to nearby Silicon Valley to learn about employment
opportunities at firms such as Google, Yahoo!, BEA, and Electronic Arts.
The school’s new, state-of-the-art student careers website, CareerNet,
enables you to stay on top of the job market by providing instant access
to career tools, as well as employer and event information. By continually
improving and expanding career services such as CareerNet, The Haas
School of Business continues to be committed to preparing Berkeley MBAs
for success in today’s competitive job market.
Recent Recruiters of Berkeley MBAs
Selected companies that participated in on-campus recruiting
and/or hired a Berkeley MBA during the 2006-2007 school year
24 Hour Fitness
A.T. Kearney, Inc.
Abbott Laboratories
Accenture
Adobe Systems
Agilent Technologies, Inc.
AIG
Alexander Group Inc., The
Amazon.com
American Express
Amgen
Analysis Group
Apax Partners
Apple
Applied Biosystems
Applied Materials
Archstone Consulting
Archstone-Smith Trust
AT&T
Atom Entertainment
Augmentum Corporation
Autodesk, Inc.
Aveda
Avera Global Partners
Babcock & Brown LP
Bain & Company
Bank of America
Barclays Capital
Barclays Global Investors
BEA Systems, Inc.
Beacon Capital Partners, LLC
BearingPoint, Inc.
Belo Corporation
Benetech
Bertelsmann, Inc.
Bertram Capital
Black Rock Realty
Blackstone Medical
Blu Skye Sustainability
Blue Shield of California
BNP Paribas
Booz Allen Hamilton
Boston Consulting Group
Boston Properties
Boston Scientific Corporation
Brandes Investment Partners
Bridge Partners, Inc.
Bridgespan Group
Brown-Forman
BTS USA, Inc.
Burrill & Company
California Environmental Associates
California Pacific Medical Center
California Public Employees
Retirement System (CalPERS)
Cambridge Associates, LLC
Campbell Alliance
Canaccord Adams
Cannell Capital
Capgemini
Capital Group Companies
Capital Group Companies, The
Capital One
CashView
Center for Community Self-Help
Charles Schwab
Cherokee Investment Partners
Chevron Corporation
CIM Group
Cisco Systems
Citi
Clorox Company, The
Comcast Corporation
Corinthian Colleges Inc.
Countrywide Financial
Cowen & Company
Credit Suisse
Crosslink Captial
Daewoo Securities Co., Ltd.
Danger Inc.
David and Lucile Packard Foundation,
The
De Novo Ventures
Del Monte Foods
Deloitte Consulting LLP
Deutsche Bank
Developing World Markets
Doppelganger Inc.
Dow Chemical Company, The
Dreyer’s Grand Ice Cream
E.&J. Gallo Winery
eBay Inc.
EDS
Education Pioneers, Inc.
Education.com
Endeavor Global, Inc.
Ernst & Young LLP
Farallon Capital Management
Farmers Insurance Group
Fast Search & Transfer
Federal Home Loan Bank of
San Francisco
Fenwick & West
Fidelity Investments
Focus Features
Ford Motor Company
Fortress Investment Group
Foundation Strategy Group (FSG)
Franklin Templeton Investments
Frito Lay
Gap, Inc.
GE
Genencor International, Inc.
Genentech, Inc.
Georgetown University
Gilead Sciences
GMO
Goldman Sachs & Co.
Good Capital, LLC
Goodby Silverstein & Partners
Google
Government Accountability Office
Granite Ventures
GreatSchools Inc.
GRID Alternatives
Grosvenor
Harris Williams & Co.
Headwaters MB
Hearthstone
Helium Report
Hewlett Packard
Hix Rubenstein Companies, Inc.
(HRC)
Houlihan Lokey Howard and Zukin
(HLHZ)
HSBC
Hyperion Therapeutics
IB Partners Ltda.
IBM
Incode Wireless
Income Research & Management
Industry Ventures
Infosys
Intel
International Finance Corporation
(IFC)
Intuit
Jefferies & Company
JibJab Media Inc.
JNR
Johnson & Johnson
Joint Juice Inc
JP Morgan
Kaiser Permanente
Katzenbach Partners LLC
KPMG LLP
Lazard
LECG
Lehman Brothers
LEK Consulting
Lenders for Community Development
Leucadia Capital Partners
Levi Strauss & Co.
LG Telecom
Liberty Mutual Group
Ludic Labs
LVMH - Domaine Chandon
M/C Venture Partners
Macy’s West
Manex Consulting
Marcus & Millichap Real Estate
Investment Brokerage Co.
MassMutual Financial Group
Mattel, Inc.
McCann Worldgroup
McKesson
McKinsey & Company
Medtronic
Mercer Management Consulting
Merrill Lynch
Merriman Curhan Ford & Co.
Method
Microsoft Corporation
Monitor
Morgan Stanley
MySQL Inc.
National Park Service
Nature’s Cure
Navigant Consulting, Inc.
Nestle USA, Inc.
NetService Ventures Group
New City Capital
NewStar Financial
Nomura Research Institute
Northwest Airlines
Nth Power
OC&C Strategy Consultants
Opus Capital
Orchard Supply Hardware
Pace Harmon
Pacific Community Ventures
Pacific Crest Securities
Panda Restaurants Group
Papyrus
Parnassus Investments
Partnership Capital Growth Advisors
(PCGA)
Passport Capital, LLC
Patagonia
PayPal
PBS
PDL BioPharma
Penumbra, Inc
PG&E Corporation
PIMCO
Pinnacle Rock Associates
Piper Jaffray
PlayFirst
Point B Solutions Group
PowerLight Corporation
PricewaterhouseCoopers
Primafuel
Prophet
PRTM (Pittiglio Rabin Todd &
McGrath)
Prudential Capital Group
Rambus
RBC Capital Markets
RealNetworks
Recurrent Energy
Red Bricks Media
Revolution Partners
Reynolds & Brown
Robson Homes
Rohm and Haas
RPO Management Consultants
RREEF
Safeway
Salesforce.com
Samsung
SAP
Sares-Regis
Savvian
Scale Venture Partners
Schnitzer Northwest
SG Cowen
Shea Homes
Sierra Ventures
Silver Spring Networks
SKS Investments
Solaria Corporation
Sony
Spring Ventures
Standard & Poor’s Credit Market
Services
Stanford Hospital & Clinics
Starbucks Coffee Company
State Planning Organization of Turkey
Sun Microsystems
SunPower
Sutter Health
Swiss Reinsurance Company
Symantec
Taco Bell Corp
Target Corporation
TechnoServe
TerraPass Inc.
ThinkEquity Partners
Thomas Weisel Partners LLC
Thornburg Investment Management
Time Warner Cable
Tishman Speyer
T-Mobile USA
Trumark Companies
Tuscan Group, The
UBS
Unilever
United States Coast Guard
URS Corporation
US Cellular
US Renewables Group (USRG)
Management Company
VeriSign, Inc.
Visa International
Visa USA
VMware
Wachovia
Walden Asset Management
Wal-Mart
Wells Fargo & Company
Wente Vineyards
Williams-Sonoma, Inc.
WOW
Xilinx, Inc.
Yahoo!
ZS Associates
The Berkeley MBA Program
is one of Google’s targeted
programs, and events such as
the Google Tech Trek help the
company recruit top talent.
Berkeley MBA students who
have recently worked at Google
after graduation and in summer
internships include (from left
to right) Diana Adair, MBA 06,
Marc Lefkowitz, MBA 07,
Kihyun Jung, MBA 06, and
Dai Pham, MBA 07.
Italics Hired Haas
Bold On-campus
Recruiting
Participant
& Hired Haas
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