MBA students and alumni often experience career transition as a complex, frustrating and even lonely process. Competition for great jobs is intense, regardless of one's background and skills. Finding a good fit takes hard work. For their part, professionals at MBA Career Centers frequently have limited resources to deal with the multiple challenges presented by their constituencies. This is where we come in. Next Step Partners is a recognized resource in helping MBA Career Centers serve their populations more effectively.

Students and alumni are struggling with:

• Limited experience with the job-search process and limited job-search skills
• Difficulty in articulated who they are, what they want and what they bring to the table
• Confusion about future vision and the specific next stages of their careers
• Pressure from external sources—family, friends and colleagues—about what is the "right" job for them
• A sense of being stuck combined with uncertainty about how to take action and achieve momentum in job searches
• Feelings of isolation

• Managing the high expectations and seemingly endless needs of diverse groups of students
• Providing relevant, engaging programming that builds required skills
• Limited one-on-one time with students resulting from staffing constraints
• Achieving ambitious placement goals
• Requests for career help from alumni
• Isolation from ideas, approaches and resources outside of their own institutions because of the need to focus on their own programs

Next Step Partners teams with MBA Career Centers to deliver high-quality, interactive programs filled with relevant career development content to MBA students and alumni. We provide a valuable, outside perspective on the challenges and skills required for success in the job-search process. Our reality-based approaches to complex career issues are based on our work with leading business schools across the country, with numerous executives from a variety of industries, and the expertise of our own Partners and Consultants.

Our services include a wide variety of interactive workshops, one-on-one coaching, and a comprehensive career handbook created expressly for MBA students. As MBA alumni and business professionals, we understand both the business school experience and the expectations of the professional world. This understanding enables us to design programs and materials that build critical career management and job-search skills that MBA students and alumni will use throughout their professional lives. We are proud to have made a difference in the careers of thousands of MBA's across the country.

Learn more about Next Step Partners' Workshops and MBA Career Handbook.