Category: Picture This
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Leading Groups, Honing Skills
The Snapple team shows off its display for Vanderbilt Marketing Association’s Marketing Madness, where student teams compete to create the most successful marketing campaign. The Owen Tech Club was launched this year and set up Tech Trek, a spring break trip to the West Coast. The Vanderbilt Marketing Association team won first place in the Rice Marketing Case Competition. Vanderbilt fielded this team for the second SEC MBA Case Competition. Students involved with 100% Owen spent a day of service helping Nashville’s Thistle Farms, a nonprofit benefiting women residential program for women who have survived prostitution, addiction and life on the streets. MBA Games Club members participate in the annual MBA Games, a national event that raises funds for the Special Olympics. Since 1989, the event has raised over $1.8 million for the charity. More than 350 people attended the student-organized 2013 Vanderbilt Health Care Conference. One of the keynote speakers at the 2013 Vanderbilt Health Care Conference was Guest speaker Rushika Fernandopulle, who talked about radical primary health care. -
On the Job
Read McNamara, MA’76, Executive Director of the Career Management Center at Owen, describes the CMC’s mission as something akin to moving mountains. The days when companies recruited exclusively on college campuses—“when the man went to the mountain,” as he puts it—are long over. Today’s marketplace demands that the CMC “get the mountain to the man,” he says, by figuring out more focused and creative ways of putting Owen students in front of prospective employers. Ultimately it’s about going the extra mile for every customer, including not only students and recruiters but also Owen alumni, who play a key role in the job placement process. What follows is an assortment of facts, figures and other details that highlight the CMC’s efforts.
A personal touch
Fassinger In 2011 Tami Fassinger, BA’85, was named Owen’s Chief Recruiting Officer, a role that closely aligns the Admissions office with the CMC. The appointment reflects the school’s initiative to take a more personalized, career-centric approach to finding the right B-school candidates and then giving them the resources to land their dream jobs. “Rather than just blindly pursue candidates with the highest GMAT scores and slot them into one of our programs,” Fassinger says, “our team strives to understand the career goals of each person who comes through our doors, and then do what we can to support each one through the enrollment decision, graduation and far beyond.”
By the numbers
No. 19
Vanderbilt’s placement on Bloomberg Businessweek’s rankings of MBA pay by career totals (2012)
$96,500
The median base salary for the MBA Class of 2012 at graduation
2.5
The average number of job offers received by each student in the Class
of 2012 with a Human and Organizational Performance concentration25
The number of companies extending multiple full-time job offers to the Class of 2012, including Amazon, Credit Suisse, Goldman Sachs, Hanesbrands, McKesson, Johnson & Johnson and Nissan
40
The number of companies extending multiple internship offers to the Class of 2013, including Deloitte and Goldman Sachs
Anderson 
Gore 
Kinnett 
Fend Coaches’ Corner
The CMC has four coaches on staff, each with their own expertise. All first-year Vanderbilt MBA students select a coach to assist them with their job search strategies and have access to Read McNamara and Tami Fassinger—both with deep industry experience and connections. The four student coaches are:
- Emily Anderson, Senior Associate Director, Director of Internal Operations
Expertise: consulting, finance and health care - Blake Gore, Senior Associate Director
Expertise: finance and international - Sandy Kinnett, Associate Director, Employer Relations and Events
Expertise: HOP, real estate and operations - Amanda Fend, Associate Director
Expertise: marketing
On the road
Cities where the CMC has arranged interview events in recent years - Emily Anderson, Senior Associate Director, Director of Internal Operations