The "Managing Your Career" Course

Over the course of our first semester, everyone in the program was enrolled in a course called "Managing Your Career". In this course, we got to hear great career and job search advice from both Hettie Tabor, our program director and Scott Hensley, who is in charge of the Cox career center. They gave great interview tips and let us ask tons of questions about everything job-related. In addition, we also had presentations from 2 different companies every week. A lot of these companies had either hired students from the program the year before or expressed an interest in the students in the current program. This was a great chance to network, and it also let us see some of the options for careers after graduation.

Some of the companies that came were:

• State Farm
• Accenture
• Texas Health Resources
• Google
• PwC
• Hitachi
• American Airlines

SMU has a really great alumni network, which can really be helpful in the job search.