MBAs Report That an Internship is Essential for Career Success

The highly qualified MBA with an internship will receive a job offer, according to a recent poll by MBACareers.com. 88 percent of interns were offered a position following their internship and reported that the internship led to finding mentors and critical networking contacts that helped them in their career path.

“Increasingly, an MBA internship has become the ticket to a job making an internship at the best firms and top corporations extremely competitive,” said JillXan Donnelly, president of MBACareers.com. “The survey is clear – get the internship, apply yourself and nine out of ten interns will get a job offer for a permanent position.”

The poll equally attracted women and men MBAs who offered different perspectives about the networking and mentoring relationships developed during their internship experience. Of the 89 percent that stated they created networking contacts that helped them in their career path, over two-thirds were male.

More than 75 percent of the women MBAs responded that they created a formal mentor relationship from their internship, whereas only 24 percent of males secured mentors.

Source: PRWEB