Career Resources

Today’s fast-paced business environment presents Texas McCombs graduates with personal and professional challenges. This is especially true for our alumni facing the competitive world of senior-level job searching, recruitment, and placement. We invite you to explore the following alumni career resources to take advantage of the many tools available.

Job Board

The McCombs School’s Job Board is for employers, students, and alumni. Employers are encouraged to post jobs and students and alumni may search for postings. Alumni: If you need your UT EID to access the Alumni Job Board, contact the Alumni Relations Office. If you know your UT EID but need your password, visit UT EID Self-Service Tools. Recruiters: Contact Recruitment Services for help with the job board.

Career Coaching

Services from BBA Alumni

Darrell W. Gurney, BBA ’84 (summa cum laude), supports forward-thinking leaders to know themselves in new ways and to transform that knowledge into personal branding that opens doors. He promotes a proven system of relationship management which has people create backdoor connections offering a world of new possibilities—for industry growth, entrepreneurial venturing, or complete career change. Recognized as an Outstanding Business School Student at McCombs, he brings that same outstanding commitment to every individual he supports. He offers McCombs BBA alumni the first 30 minutes free and additional services at a 10 percent discount. Contact him via email at darrell@careerguy.com.

Amber Travis-Ballinas, MBA ’91, is a managing director/consultant with Career Creators Consulting. Career Creators specializes in career consulting, providing career-related services, and one-on-one career and business coaching. Their consulting services are tailored to their client’s individual strengths and challenges. Their consultants are subject matter experts with real world experience who provide clients with practical and relevant information, tools, strategies, and tactics to successfully navigate each step in the selection process, regardless of where they are in their career life cycle. McCombs alumni receive a 20 percent discount off of the listed prices. For further details, visit Career Creators or email Careers@CareerCreators.Consulting.

Services from MBA Alumni

Michael A. Froehls, MBA ’90 (Dean’s List), Ph.D. (University of Trier), is an independent management consultant, book author (www.thegiftofjobloss.com), university guest lecturer, and former global executive who has worked, lived, and traveled to over 50 countries. He is not your traditional career coach. Michael offers personalized one-on-one strategic consultation sessions to those who are facing important decisions affecting both their professional and personal life. His specialty is brainstorming, analyzing, and structuring available strategic options based on expected benefits and risks, holistically taking all relevant factors into account (e.g., your personal goals, financial situation, health, family, age, state of the economy). Sample topics are: leveraging upcoming or recent job loss; using sabbaticals to rejuvenate and recreate your life; exploring relocation, further education or alternative careers; optimizing the trade-off between work and relationships/family. UT alumni receive a 20 percent discount. Contact him via email at michael@thefroehlsgroup.com.

Neena Newberry, MBA ’92, works with motivated senior leaders and managers to improve their effectiveness. As an executive coach, she serves as a “thought partner” with her clients to clarify their priorities or goals, better leverage their strengths, keep their developmental areas from becoming barriers to their success, work through specific business challenges and take action. Neena also specializes in working with women in dual career families. She offers McCombs MBA alumni the first 30 minutes free and additional services at a 10 percent discount. Visit her at Newberry Executive Solutions or contact her via email at neena@newberrysolutions.com.

Solu Nwanze, MBA 2012, is an executive coach and a business operations leader in tech. She has vast experience in building products, designing processes and transforming people. As a trained coach, Solu works with emerging and established leaders to clarify their inner wisdom, vision and goals while driving clients to action through accountability, support and challenging. If you want to create something new or you feel stuck and need a way out, or you are down a path and want to make a detour, Solu can help. McCombs alumni receive a free informational chat plus 20% discount off subsequent coaching sessions. Contact her at solu@signpostcoach.com or visit www.signpostcoach.com to book an informational chat.

David Radzinsky, MBA ’05, is a small business owner, entrepreneur, certified life coach and yoga teacher. His coaching practice is focused on life transitions, work/life balance, and wellness. David uses a humanistic approach to help clients integrate their physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual capabilities to achieve their goals. David is bilingual (English and Spanish); he offers face-to-face sessions in New York City and Skype sessions to clients outside the NYC area. David also offers corporate wellness programs including Yoga and Meditation. McCombs Alumni receive a free 45 minute consultation and 20% off all subsequent consultations. You can contact him via email at david.radzinsky@gmail.com or at http://www.davidradzinsky.com/.

Services for UT Alumni

Wolfgang Career Coaching is a full-service career transition and career development firm that works with clients across the country to find fulfillment in their careers. Their services include career exploration, branding, resumes, interview preparation, job search strategy and career development. Contact Wolfgang Career Coaching with your UT EID.

Additional Resources

Internal Resources

Texas Exes Career Resources
The Texas Exes offers career resources to students, alumni, and Texas Exes members. There are options for job seekers, employers, those considering a career transition, or those seeking ways to positively develop their careers.

HireUTexas
HireUTexas is an online job posting system. Postings are accessible to the entire alumni and student community of The University of Texas at Austin. Search by location, job type, and experience level.

Campus Resources
Alumni are welcome to use the Perry-Castañeda Library for research or the physical resources in the career services office.

TRIS
Texas Recruitment + Interview Services (TRIS) is a campus-wide resource supporting companies and organizations recruiting at UT by providing interview space, career center connections and one-stop recruiting access. Our employer connections benefit UT Austin students and alumni with the increased number and diversity of opportunities we facilitate and make accessible via our career center partners.

Sanger Learning and Career Center
The Sanger Learning and Career Center offers library access and counseling services to alumni who graduated within the last 12 months. They offer assistance for recent graduates who are unsure about what career direction to pursue.

External Resources

Blue Steps
Blue Steps is a leading executive career management service operated by The Association of Executive Search Consultants (AESC) and provides executive talent a wealth of career management resources, including absolute confidentiality and ethical connections with AESC members. Memberships may be purchased by McCombs alumni at a 30 percent discount.

Business Development Academy
The Business Development Academy runs many seminars on disciplines of interest to the business development community. These disciplines include leadership lessons, financial projections, behavioral economics, intellectual property, competitive intelligence, mergers and acquisitions, business valuation, game theory, strategic planning, and much more. McCombs School Alumni receive a $75 discount.

Forté Foundation
Forté Foundation is a consortium of 27 leading multinational corporations, 37 top business schools in the U.S. and abroad, and the Graduate Management Admissions Council (GMAC). Forté has become a powerful change agent directing women toward leadership roles in business and enabling corporations to more effectively reach and retain top female talent. It is the only organization that provides a national infrastructure for women at all stages of the career continuum to access the information, scholarship support, and networking connections they need to succeed in business careers.

Gerson Lehrman Group
The Gerson Lehrman Group unites industry experts from accounting and financial analysis, consumer goods and services, and financial and business services for paid consulting interactions and speaking engagements. If you are a current or retired executive who is interested in consulting with the world’s top investment firms, consultancies, and corporations, please visit the Gerson Lehrman Group to learn more or contact Stephanie McNeill.

MBA-Exchange
MBA-Exchange connects MBAs to employers worldwide. It includes filtered MBA jobs, corporate profiles, and peer-to-peer knowledge sharing.

RiseSmart
RiseSmart makes online $100k+ job search more efficient by delivering prescreened job opportunities through technology that acts as a human account manager—the RiseSmart Concierge. RiseSmart offers special pricing for McCombs students and alumni. Learn more.