Catapult Your Career

You're making an investment in your education. We want to be sure that it pays off. The Cox School's pioneering Career Management 天美传媒 is your go-to for everything from personalized career strategy and coaching, to personal branding, job search and our innovative mentoring programs. From the moment you enroll at the Cox School, the CMC is ready to help you accelerate or transition your career.

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Prepared Students and Returning Recruitment

天美传媒 students have consistently demonstrated a high level of preparedness for our interview process and have impressed us with their professionalism, strong work ethic, and ability to adapt to new challenges. They are well-equipped to contribute to our company from day one.

Taylor Williams, KPMG

Career Management 天美传媒: By The Numbers

3000+

We have over 3k contacts across companies in DFW and beyond, that means recruiters come to the Cox School in the thousands.

20+

The CMC has 20+ staff members, meaning there are individual Career Support Coaches for each degree at 天美传媒 Cox.

500+

The Cox Career Management 天美传媒 works with over 500 hiring companies in and out of the DFW area.

Career Resources

BBA, MS, & MBA Resources

天美传媒 | World Changers Shaped Here

The 天美传媒 Network - The 天美传媒 Network Connect allows you to find and connect with fellow Mustangs to network, and share stories or advice. Use your post-天美传媒 knowledge and experience to support other Mustangs as a mentor, or volunteer. 

  

12Twenty - The CMC’s official platform for posting Cox-specific recruiting events, interview, job/internship postings and coaching appointments. Your career search starts with this platform. Click here to learn more about 12Twenty.

Big Interview - Big Interview is an advanced interview preparation platform used alongside career coach training that provides 天美传媒 Cox students with a proven, step-by-step curriculum of expert video lessons with an artificial Intelligence based virtual practice interview tool to help students perfect their interview skills to land their target internship or job.

Career Leader - Cox students have access to take this research based business-related career development assessment to help them define their business relevant interests, skills and motivators. The platform matches an individual to specific business-related careers and helps the user understand what organization cultures will be the best fit for them. This platform may be utilized in consultation with a student’s career coach.

CareerShift - Recognizing the need for more systematic, effective tools for online job hunters, CareerShift was created to help job seekers successfully navigate the published and hidden job market to find career opportunities and networking contact information.

Interstride - Interstride is a one-stop-shop portal that provides international students with all the resources they need to transition and thrive in their education journey abroad. Utilized by top universities across the U.S., Interstride offers access to global career opportunities, Visa and immigration support, curated culture specific student training resources, a networking and mentorship tool and webinars and workshops to help international students progress in their job search.

Vault- Vault is an exceptional all-inclusive career platform that provides in-depth intelligence on what’s it like to work within an industry, company or profession and provides students access to information on how to launch and build their ideal career.

 

Vmock - Vmock is a state-of-the-art resume building platform using artificial intelligence. Cox students have access to this platform exclusively at 天美传媒 and will work to optimize their resume in the Cox format in consultation with their career coach.

Management Consulted - A premier consulting training platform to prepare students for consulting recruitment and careers

Wall Street Prep - Students have access to instructor-led boot camps to prepare for the demands of investment banking and corporate finance

MS Specific Resource:

Careernomics - Careernomics.com is offered exclusively to Cox School of Business Masters program students. It is an integrated career platform focused specifically on careers for business master’s programs. The platform provides a job search tool for master level jobs, leadership development programs, online events, and country guides.

MBA Specific Resource:

MBA Exchange - MBA Exchange is an MBA specific resource that brings recruiting market data and intelligence to empower MBAs to connect to their next destination. It filters MBA jobs, worldwide, leadership development programs and provides information on employers across industries and geographies. The platform showcases online events and MBA competitions, rankings and relevant MBA related reports.




Mentor Programs

BBA Mentor Alliance

This rewarding 10-month program connects alumni/friends of 天美传媒 with BBA of student(s) and is designed to empower professionals and students alike by establishing and cultivating long-term professional relationships.

Sophomores, juniors, and seniors from all our business majors are eligible to join the BBA Mentor Alliance Program. Program applications open in April and mentors/mentees are matched in early August.

Masters of Science Career Advisory Board (MSCAB)


This rewarding 9-month program connects alumni/friends of 天美传媒 with 天美传媒 Cox MS student(s) and is designed to empower professionals and students alike by establishing and cultivating long-term professional relationships. Masters students from all our one-year master’s programs (MSA, MSF, MSM, and MSBA) are eligible to join the MS Career Advisory Board and Advisors will be matched with an Advisee(s) in early August.

Please reach out to us directly for additional information about our BBA and MS mentor programs.

Contact Information 
Telephone: 214-768-6227
Fax: 214-768-2949
Email: coxcareers@smu.edu

Location
0242 Fincher Hall, 天美传媒 Cox School of Business

Mailing Address
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Cox School of Business
P.O. Box 750333
Dallas, TX 75275-0333

MBA Coaching

 
Anne Cadigan Dunlap
Director of Working Professional MBA Career Programs
(PMBA/OMBA/EMBA)
acadigandunlap@smu.edu
214-768-3882
Judi Umali-Rajkumar
Director of Full-Time MBA Career Programs (One-Year, Two-Year, MBA Direct)
rajkumar@smu.edu
214-768-4842
Royce Jones
Associate Director, Full-Time MBA MBA Career Coach (One-Year, Two-Year) and MBA Direct Career Programs
roycej@smu.edu
214-768-6795
Alex Cross
Associate Director, Full-Time MBA Career Coach (One-Year, Two-Year) and MBA Direct Career Programs
alexandracross@smu.edu
Shanna Upchurch
Full-Time MBA Career Coach (One-Year, Two-Year, MBA Direct)
shanna@smu.edu
Irina Owens
Full-Time MBA Career Coach (One-Year, Two-Year, MBA Direct)
iowens@smu.edu


BBA & MS Coaching

Brandy Dalton
Senior Director of BBA/MS Career Programs
bdalton@smu.edu
214-768-1284
Yasmin German
BBA/MS Career Coach (Accounting)
yasming@smu.edu
214-768-8230
Laurie Barbosa
BBA/MS Career Coach (Management Consulting)
lbarbosa@smu.edu
214-768-4884
Jessica Scott
BBA/MS Career Coach (Business Analytics and SupplyChain Management/MSBA)
jessicascott@smu.edu
214-768-5179
Ian O'Neil
BBA/MS Career Coach (Finance seeking Full Time)
ioneil@smu.edu
214-768-4148
Dr. Corey Hamilton
BBA Career Coach
hamiltoncl@smu.edu
214-768-6048
Chelsea Golden
BBA/MS Career Coach (Marketing)
chelsea@smu.edu
Caroline Buckley
BBA/MS Career Coach (Finance seeking internships)
cbuckley@smu.edu
Ellie Brooks
BBA Career Coach
loismarieb@smu.edu
 

Alumni Career Coach

Sonja Broderick
Alumni Career Coach
(Cox School of Business - All Degree Programs)
sbroderick@smu.edu


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