Ask mbaMission

Hi there,

Certainly it can be even EASIER to make connections right there locally during b-school, but that said it is super common to move around to various regions after graduating for specific jobs! The best thing to do is really do your research by school-- look at where grads do go and what companies etc; ask q's of the career services offices along these lines; even consider speaking with recruiters at companies you'd be interested in for their take on it. And/or-- look at NYC schools, or schools in the South, or elsewhere if you feel those connections would be valuable! Lots to consider. Good luck!

Hi there,

Happy to help as best as I can! Though... you are specifically asking about your chances of specific jobs at specific companies in specific regions.... that's not really something I can definitively assess! I can't claim personal expertise in the RE industry; my primary expertise is in MBA admissions in this message board facilitator role, (and also in marketing, brand management, general management/operations, for-profit education, & international work experience over my career), and while I can provide some advice on schools known for RE, in terms of hiring possibilities at specific companies, the two main ways to assess/estimate possibilities are

1) info from the school (UCLA in this instance)-- review specific companies and roles that recent grads have gone into-- much of this is readily available by searching 'employment statistics' or 'hiring profiles' for that school, and/or anything you'd like to know that you can't find, I encourage you to contact the admissions and/or career services office at UCLA and ask them directly. If you'd like to be put in touch with a recent alum in a role like that you're interested in, at a company you are interested in, maybe in a REGION you are interested in... ask!

2)info from those companies-- you can contact HR/recruiters at these companies and ask for more info; potentially set up informational interviews to do more research into your questions-- and I often encourage this for MBA applicants anyway-- the more research you can do NOW about your post-MBA career steps, the better... both for your own benefit career-wise, and also for when you inevitably get pressed on this in say, an interview situation.

My general overall gut would be to still pursue the UCLA app... IF you could see yourself there. But I encourage you to research via the above mentioned channels and see how YOU feel about the school as well, and what info you find out.

Hope that helps in some way!

Sounds good.