aaudetat wrote:
In the interest of consolidating threads, I wanted to ask another recruiting question.
Many of us are interested in working for large companies - finance, consulting, product management, etc. And many of these companies recruit at all the top schools. But do these companies recruit for all functions at all schools? Or might a company recruit for only one function at a particular school?
For example, I am interested in working for Citigroup in their community reinvestment division. Citi recruits at every school I looked at, but would they necessarily be recruiting for the positions I am interested in? Or will it only be the more traditional finance jobs? What if you want to do finance at a consumer products company? Will that company only be recruiting for the marketing positions, or would they also look at finance applicants?
Citi is a huge group, so I'm pretty confident they would not be focusing each search on a particular job. I assume they would try to recruit a pool of MBAs from all over the place and then work on who gets to go where, etc. (based on candidates interests and their assessments of candidates fit to each position).
When "corporate" (I mean not consulting, not Finance) companies recruit MBAs, they are usually thinking on recruiting future managers, and not so much people to fill in a particular position right away. Most companies will place MBAs in some sort of development program, probably with some pre-scheduled rotations, etc. I'm not sure whether it's this way with Citi, though, or if you'd just head to a division and work your way up from there.
Hope it helps. L.