After spending six years in the non-profit sector, Joey Parker (Haas, ’21) enrolled at UC-Berkeley (Haas) to pursue an MBA and to transition to a new career. During this episode, Joey talks about his experience with MBA internship recruiting for both management consulting and technology roles, the highs and hows of navigating internship recruiting, and his overall reflections and learnings from his first year MBA internship search. Listen on Spotify or Apple Podcasts
- 3:05 – Joey shares what he did before business school, an why he chose to get an MBA
- 6:00 – Joey shares his career aspirations for his MBA
- 10:07 – Joey talks about the rigors of the management consulting recruiting process
- 15:00 – Joey speaks to the networking aspect of recruiting, and what he learned from that
- 21:28 – Joey talks about his recruiting process for consulting, and some of his learnings
- 25:18 – Joey talks about some of the difficult but important learnings from applying and interviewing for MBA Internships
- 30:30 – Joey talks about the nitty gritty aspects of the consulting interviewing process
- 34:02 – Joey talks about how he moved forward after the consulting internship interview process, and how he moved forward
- 37:07 – Joey talks about how he pivoted to recruiting for tech intern opportunities
- 41:00 – Joey talks about how he re-evaluated his approach to his summer internship, and his longer-term career goals
- 42:26 – Joey shares his interview process for how he landed his summer internship
- 50:24 – Joey shares his advice for MBA students who are career switchers