Welcome to the School of Business! In addition to starting your academic journey, your first-year courses through the Advanced Mentoring Program (AMP) are where you meet your peers, get to know faculty, and learn about all the opportunities at the School of Business and Beloit College.
Career Works offers AMP Connect Sessions and Career Accelerators on topics ranging from building your strengths, creating your first resume, picking a major, and more. These sessions offer you the opportunity to plan out your first few semesters and in doing so, gain some professional skills right from the start.
Year 2: Focus your interest and start your professional network
Business Networking Summit Feb 2024
Declare your major with the Business School. Choose from Business Management, Economics, and Quantitative Economics. Select your academic advisor and develop an academic plan that serves both your passion and your career interests.
Complement your major with minors, such as Finance, Marketing, Entrepreneurship, or Sport Management. Try some Coursera mini-certifications in Marketing & Ecommerce, Social Media Marketing, Marketing Analytics, Project Management, Sales, Logistics, and more.
Develop an individualized career plan with a career advisor and be assigned a career coach who’s an industry professional. Receive personalized feedback on your resume and LinkedIn profile. Start building your professional network. As part of your coursework, you’ll learn how to do an informational interview and be matched with an alumni in a field of your choice.
Year 3: Gain experiences and expand your professional network
Attend the Business School’s annual Business Networking Summit in February in Chicago, at the University of Chicago’s Booth School of Business. Connect with alumni industry professionals, expand your network, and in the process, learn about internship opportunities.
Spring semester junior year is the most popular and recommended time to study off campus or abroad. Popular off-campus domestic programs for Business School’s students include a semester in Washington, DC at the American University and “Intern Philly” (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania). For overseas study, consider programs at universities in the UK, Belgium, and Australia.
Year 4: Leverage your network + tell your story → launch
Leverage the professional network that you worked so hard to build in the previous three years. Connect with people in your network to get job referrals and help with resumes and cover letters, or do mock interviews in preparation for job applications.
Graduates of the Business School secure employment in a variety of fields. Most popular are finance, consulting, marketing, entrepreneurship, and data/business analytics. The median early-career annual salary for graduates is $85,000 (based on 2023 career outcomes survey) with recent placements at JP Morgan Chase, Ziegler Capital, Group One Trading, Deloitte Consulting, NERA Consulting, and others.
Through the Upton Forum, learn to think big to become a visionary business leader. As part of the senior capstone, engage with and get feedback on your senior projects from the Upton Scholar - a leading thinker in the field of economics and business (see the list of scholars, including three Nobel Memorial Prize Winners).
President Eric Boynton talking with alumni and student at Business Networking Summit 2024
Example academic plans
When
Academic Planning
Career Planning
Year 1
Principles of Econ
Intro to Financial Accounting
Intro to Visual Studies
Attend career workshops organized by Career Works and AMP
Draft your first resume
Create your linkedin profile
Join a student club/organization.
Apply for an entry-level position on campus, such as front desk assistant at the PowerHouse.
Summer
Find a summer job, while continuing to research and explore career options.
Year 2
Intermediate Microeconomics
Intermediate Macroeconomics
Corporate finance
Consumer Behavior
Human-centered Design Thinking
1 business elective (Business Ethics for example)
Meet with career advisor to make an individualized career plan for a marketing career; get connected to alumni in marketing
Apply for an on-campus job related to marketing (for example, econ department assistant helps update econ website and write alum stories; or a position with the Office of Communication and Marketing)
Summer
Get an internship or summer job (ideally it should be marketing-related)
Year 3
Quant Methods for Business & Econ
Digital Marketing and E-commerce
Marketing Principles and Strategy
Business Management Economics
1 business elective (The Art of Leading for example)
Apply for a marketing internship through Impact Beloit’s internship program
Apply for a position with the student-run market research firm Belmark Associates
Attend the Business Networking Summit in Feb to get help with internship search
Summer
Do an internship on marketing. Apply for internship award.
Year 4
Senior Seminar for Business and Econ
1 business elective (Marketing Research Workshop for example)
Reduce regular course load to do internship (for credit) during the school year
Apply for and get an internship or part-time job on marketing in or near the city of Beloit; check Impact Beloit’s Concierge Internship Program
Attend Business Networking Summit in February to get help with job search.
Results
You’ve acquired your knowledge and skills in business and marketing.
You’ve built your professional network.
You’ve accumulated marketing-related experiences on your resume.
You are ready to launch, so go out there, compete, and get your first job in marketing.
When
Academic Planning
Career Planning
Year 1
Principles of Econ
Intro to Financial Accounting
Calculus I
Calculus II
Attend career workshops organized by Career Works and AMP
Draft your first resume
Create your linkedin profile
Join the Investment Club.
Apply for an entry-level position on campus, such as front desk assistant at the Powerhouse.
Summer
Find a summer job, while continuing to research and explore career options.
Year 2
Intermediate Microeconomics
Intermediate Macroeconomics
Corporate Finance
1 econ elective (Sports Economics, for example)
Linear Algebra
Meet with career advisor to make an individualized career plan for a finance career; get connected to alumni in finance
Apply for an on-campus job related to finance (for example, a position in the Office of Accounting and Finance, or become a teaching assistant for the accounting/finance courses)
Summer
Get an internship or summer job (it’s probably not finance-related yet)
Year 3
Quant Methods for Business & Econ
Money and Banking
Investment and Portfolio Management
1 econ elective (for example, Machine Learning for Business and Economics course)
Apply for a finance internship through Impact Beloit’s internship program
Attend the Business Networking Summit in Feb to get help with internship search.
Summer
Do an internship on finance. Apply for internship award.
Year 4
Senior Seminar for Business and Econ
1 elective (International Trade and Finance for example)
Reduce regular course load to do internship (for credit) during the school year
Apply for and get an internship or part-time job on finance in or near the city of Beloit; check Impact Beloit’s Concierge Internship Program
Attend Business Networking Summit in February to get help with job search.
Results
You’ve acquired your knowledge and skills in economics, business and finance.
You’ve built your professional network.
You’ve accumulated finance experiences on your resume.
You are ready to launch, so go out there, compete, and get your first job in finance.
