Comprehensive career management

The Graduate Business Career Services professionals at Ivy work closely with students, employers, and alumni to foster positive and productive recruiting relationships. Through training workshops and one-on-one counseling sessions, our experienced staff will work with you to create and execute a search strategy, craft your resume and cover letters, prepare for career fairs and job interviews, improve your networking skills, and successfully negotiate offers.

Erin Starkey

Taking advantage of the coaching sessions and resources offered by the Business Career Services team at Ivy helped me to navigate finding positions in industry.

Erin Starkey (’21 MBA, industrial engineering), product manager, Tesla

We offer two major areas of service:

  • Comprehensive career management services for graduate business students enrolled in the MBA and specialized master’s degree programs, as well as alumni.
  • Partnership with hiring managers and employment recruiters to facilitate recruitment and hiring of our outstanding graduates and internship candidates.

Meet your career professional

The experienced staff at Ivy’s Graduate Business Career Services will work with you to create and execute a successful job search strategy.

Emily Haas
Thomas-Berta

Tell us what you’re up to!

Report your employment or internship details.

Student resources

Ivy graduate career services offers several online career-management tools to prepare you to search for and land your next position. For questions or login access contact Graduate Business Career Services gradbuscs@iastate.edu.

Shele Blum

Kingland values the partnership that we have with the MBA program at Iowa State University. The students are confident, business savvy, and possess great leadership skills. Thank you, Ivy MBA program, for allowing Kingland to engage with this amazing talent.

Shele Blum, campus and employee engagement specialist, Kingland Systems

Employers

Our employers

Ivy Graduate Business Career Services provides a link between you — the prospective employer— and the Ivy College of Business MBA, master of finance (MFIN), master of information systems (MIS), master of accounting (MACC), and other business graduate students. Explore our employer services web page and learn more about the opportunities we provide to our valued employers.

Co-op Solutions
Workiva
Ruan
Deloitte
Kingland
Co-op Solutions
Workiva
Ruan
Deloitte
Kingland
Eric Hammill

Alumni

Graduate Business Career Services provides these free services to alumni of Iowa State University graduate business degree programs:

  • Access to Iowa State University CyHire career management services employer job postings.
  • Individual career strategy and advice.
  • Information related to current hiring trends.
  • Information related to MBA and business specialty master’s programs.

Through training workshops and one-on-one counseling sessions, our experienced staff will work with you to create and execute a search strategy, prepare for job interviews, improve your networking skills, and successfully negotiate offers.

Anan Al Anani

Leveraging the graduate business career services was the pillar I needed to foster and build relationships with employers. I am forever grateful for their assistance in helping me land my dream job at EY!

Anan Al Anani (’20 master of science in information systems), enterprise risk services consultant, Ernst & Young

Career events

Our career events allow students to build relationships with employers, learn about internships and full-time employment opportunities, and practice professional communication and networking skills. Our offerings include large-scale career fairs, major-specific networking events, industry speakers, practice interviews, information sessions, and more. View all Ivy events.

Connect with us

Graduate Business Career Services

1420 Gerdin Business Building
2167 Union Drive
Ames, IA 50011
gradbuscs@iastate.edu
515-294-5133