 Hi everyone, it's great to see you all. My name is Marin Axe. I am the academic administrator for the program. I oversee curriculum as well as admissions. My goal is to help you find meaningful employment to connect you to our alumni and to our employers. Hi everybody, my name is Justin Snow. I work alongside Len in the career space, also point of contact for all of our SCM alumni and I've been with the staff for about six years. And Kate is also with us. Hi, I'm the program assistant so I just provide support for the admissions process and the students while they're here on campus. Yeah and then we will have later some other speakers today. So also we have another team member, Lisa and Ma, they are running their marketing and communication and also we have a team of postdocs who are working here at SCM doing different kind of research-oriented and educational-oriented activities. And on top of this we have also then other instructors that we will see later. So could we go to the next slide? Perfect. This is the plan, the agenda for today. Then we're going to start, I mean, visualizing where you will end up if you follow our journey. So then Len will share the career outcomes. Then what will be your path to become a top supply chain management professional? This is what we intend to do and then what are the next steps? So how you should apply to our program. So then where they will end up? Sure. So I know it's hard to imagine you know where you'll end up but our focus is clearly oriented towards helping you find meaningful employment, challenging employment where you'll learn where you'll grow. And you know I have to say I've been doing career support, career advising for graduate students, MBA students for over 20 years. This is the best program, the greatest program I've ever been associated with largely because of the strength of the alumni. It's enormous the power of the MIT alums in helping students find their next role. You all know that it's a great time to be at MIT, especially in supply chain. You know companies, I think every company realizes that supply chain is now a strategic advantage, a competitive advantage and they're looking for talent. And the first place they look for talent is at MIT and you know I can't speak you know more about that. Just this past week we had four companies reaching out to us to recruit Apple, Tesla, Walmart, J&J and Caterpillar just in the last seven days. Like these are the companies that want to hire graduates from our program. You know there's always going to be employment cycles, there's always going to be ups and downs, whether it's tech is up, tech is strong, consulting is up, consulting is down. But the one constant is when you're a graduate of the MIT program in supply chain, your resume is going to be at the top of the pile. And I think that's just enormously such a competitive advantage. Our focus is really who will you become? You know I want you to take the long view. You know that we have the resources, we have the connections, we have the toolkit that every other program has. But what's unique about us is two things. One, we're going to work with you in a very high touch kind of an environment. You know Justin and I meet daily with every student in the program practically. I mean certainly you're going to be meeting with us so many times during the course of your experience here. We're going to get to know you, your aspirations, your goals, and we're going to begin with an understanding of talents because you know honestly I want you to take employment off the table. Employability is really not a concern. The focus for us is a higher level concern. That is identifying what your strengths are, what your talents, your interests, your values are, and finding opportunities that are a great match for that. But the easy part is finding the job and you know this is our promise to you. Like I said very high touch and and we're very connected to our alums. Here's a sense of our outcomes. This is from the class of 2023 that just graduated. So you know typically you know by graduation or shortly thereafter we have extremely high placement rates and you know this is regardless of the economic cycle that we're in. So we're just enormously confident of what we can promise, what you can expect from us when you come into the program. And frankly as soon as you accept our offer of admission we're going to be meeting with you. Literally the week after you receive that we're going to be in touch with you because we know we're an accelerated program or a 10 month program. We want to get to know you early to get you prepared so that by the time you graduate you are in a great position. So we're going to begin making connections and and making you know supporting you in your in your progress. So like I said every school has a toolkit but you know year after year the companies are coming back to us because they know what we can offer. So with that I'll certainly have time for questions. Feel free to put them in the chat and we can answer them throughout the webinar. Thank you. Next what is your path to be copying a top professional in in the field? So then this is our value proposition. Then just to develop world class global leaders in supply chain management with an innovative MIT educational model. Every single word here has an important meaning for us. World class we are changing our curriculum based on what is expected from the real professionals of the real field. As you will see then we have a close connection with the top companies all over the world and top departments in supply chain and top executives in the field. So we hear for them in a regular manner what they expect to what we should form which would shape supply chain management professionals. Global leaders is so important. This is why intentionally we have students in the program from all over the world sharing their culture, setting their perspectives as a global supply chain should be. Of course supply chain management is our topic and innovative MIT educational model. So we hear at MIT we have the vision that our mind should work together with our hands. This is one of our most important principles. So then we love to propose experiential learning in every single I mean educational component that we are putting here bringing the best of the companies the best of the applied innovation from all our instructors but also the best from you guys. So then you are bringing your supply chain experience could be a short experience in the field could be two years of experience but you are bringing your best and then you will share and the collective in I mean learning will happen the magic will happen. I mean gathering all these stakeholders with our educational model right. And then yeah so then we're pretty proud of these figures and they is really proud and then we have been recognized number one all over the world by different rankings. So then ranking is applied to a management master in supply chain management by the their ranking the QS ranking global ranking. Then number one ranking also in by EDU universe all together with our scale centers. Also number one in by US news that is one of the most recognized rankings for the school of engineering we belong to the school of engineering but we work closely with the MIT Sloan School of Business. So then we have the two sites of them of the key components in supply chain that is engineering but also business. So then we have and you can follow two different paths. I am sure that you have already viewed our website. Then we have you have two different paths to follow. The two of them are intensive if we compare with other paths that maybe you are thinking about compare with MBA for example MBA typically is two years. So then in our program we want to be intensive and purposely on supply chain. So then you have two options you can go to the residential program is intensive program full-time program 10 months on campus. You will obtain the master degree. So then typically is designed for early career supply chain professionals. So we have professionals with four or five years of experience could be supply chain experience. But if you don't have direct supply chain experience please apply because I'm sure that you have a lot of strengths than then we would like to have your strength in our experiential learning class. Then again a customer career development as Len and Justin explained and also then with the residential path you will be eligible for OPT STEM work authorization in the U.S. if you are not a U.S. citizen or U.S. permanent resident. You have other options instead of being 10 months outside of the workforce maybe you can follow the blended program. The degrees are exactly the same coming from residential path or coming from the blended plus path exactly the same for for the blended is is an alternative pathway. So then first you take the MITx micro master certificate is an online program. You can take your own pattern and your own cadence for taking the courses in the micro master. Once you have the CFX the exam then you are eligible to apply to our program. So somehow we take the full term from the residential we waive from the with the micro master certificate this means that we join us in person in January and then you are five months with us in a very intensive path here in campus. So then you will graduate with the residential at the same time in May right. So again the difference big difference is 10 months residential from let's say August till May or five months in campus with the blended plus previous micro master right and then you will graduate exactly the same in May the same degree an MIT master degree we will display in in a minute. So then yeah as we mentioned then we are very applied research oriented. So then we have several labs that are part of our center for transportation logistics all our instructors then they lead a laboratory where we are doing applied research mainly with companies will love to do applied research this is why we are here. So then I am putting here my lab digital supply chain transformation because we are providing in in alphabetical order but then we have also food retail trade lab led by Dr. Chris Capples humanitarian supply chain lab mega city logistics lab we are working with the best companies all over the world right including I mean FMCG retail companies logistics service providers who are leaders in technology and innovation in the field of logistics we are working with Amazon from many different angles so again then we are bringing this applied research into the classes from from our labs a lot of publications you can take a look at the website if you want so then our timeline then especially talking about the residential program so then you will start with the onboarding so once you apply once you get accepted then then you start once you are accepted because we start the onboarding right we are I mean shaping your path and let this customize according to you so then we have the orientation in August so then we start working on some recruiting preparation with Len and Justin the capstone introductions so you will be able to select out of this year for example out of 45 capstones working with the big company the big players that are impacting the real operations in supply chain I mean we are talking about PNG we are talking about Mondays we are talking about the Starbucks masks so different companies that are are impacting their field then in fall we September to December we start the proper courses in supply chain management in January we welcome all our scale centers coming from all over the world here MIT three very intensive weeks very global I mean with supply chain leaders from all over the world and then from February to May in the spring then your electives you have more than 300 electives then you can select from and then you finish your research project and then we have the final graduation a beautiful moment with this picture so picture yourself within this picture right I mean graduating from MIT in front of the dome that is the concentration of knowledge as we see here at MIT what is the timeline for the blended so here then you will see a different path as we mentioned so then first you need to take micro master go there review the what are the courses and the timeline so once you have finished the micro master you are eligible to apply to our blended path you are also eligible to apply to the residential if you want to PT huh so then you can definitely go with the residential path if you have a micro master holder but the typical I mean in the blended are again profiles of five to seven years of experience so then in the fall in the you will be online you will do pre work you were preparing yourself we are equipping yourself to follow the pattern here at MIT and your education so then in again in the fall then you will take some online courses with us and you will be doing your capstone project with one of these companies let's say Starbucks so then you start I mean providing a solution for a real problem in supply chain for the Starbucks and then in January you join us in campus this is when we start counting the five months on campus experience so typically in the blended cohort you don't leave your jobs right then you I mean request a leave of absence and in your work you come here you equip your network you enjoy the MIT ecosystems and then you come back to your work but also if you decide to change gears and come and leave your job this is another option we will provide also a lot of recruiting opportunities if you decide this path so again January scale you join the residential program you join the scale program and also in spring all these electives and you continue with your capstone project and at the end you will receive the I mean the same exactly the same degree the same master degree than the residential program here the post program is that then you will continue working with us we will continue providing recruiting services here with Len and Justin so then then until you you will get your your job you decide to change the the job yeah so then next slide is the curriculum I want to go quickly because we want to make sure that they will have time for you to ask your questions and also then then we will be um we are recording again this this webinar so then you can visualize again and then stop where you want to stop so this is our curriculum in a nutshell so then we are having the full term that it is a little bit changing if we compare residential and and blended so but then I will go more with again in the full term it's mainly residential so then again logistic systems we are working about data data analytics is important but we are not a master in analytics but we work with the most advanced techniques for analytics in supply chain domain yeah um we are you are gonna have also supply chain design core course and you start your capstone project maybe you will have some elective here or in a loan starting IEP in January IEP is a very coin term here is independent activities program something like this so then yeah and it's January it's mainly January we are gonna welcome all these students from scale from Europe Saragosa Luxembourg China Latin America we welcome here 200 students coming from all over the world with a very exciting program of activities leadership speakers very top speakers their entrepreneurs some competitions will love competitions supply chain challenges with data and real challenges from real companies and then you wouldn't I mean put another dimension of your network with the global scale network and then spring as I mentioned so then typically we pay a lot of attention to writing and presentation communication skills in the supply chain domain data science and mature learning we pay a lot of attention to mature learning artificial intelligence in supply chain again this is what we are hearing from our partner companies and the executives we are working with so then every year we are reshaping according to the latest trends the latest methodologies in artificial intelligence and all of us all the instructors we are working with artificial intelligence from many different angles uh and this is a beauty of MIT we are totally working with the real world in order to bring it into our class then in spring we are also having electives finance elective supply chain elective and also management elective so again a beautiful I mean portfolio of choices you can take here 90 units in total but typically the students are taking more than 90 units so this is that you can customize your path I mentioned then you can take more than 300 classes all over MIT on top of our core curriculum so these are some of the courses that we offer that are a lexical supply chain but again on top of that I mean the College of Computing AI or maybe the Sloan School of Management yeah different kind of electives so here you have some of them so then going to the path you can follow I mentioned that then you can follow residential path 10 months mainly blended plus blended path together with micro master then a five month in campus very intensive the same degree but you can select two kind of degrees then you can from both residential from blended then you can go with the master of appliance sciences then this is our preferred path but also if you want to do more kind of research then you can go to the master of engineering and supply chain management so then we know what is the itinerary you will follow again we recommend uh we equip you more to go to work in a company this is why we the master of appliance sciences in supply chain is is the preferred path but then you can make the selection to go to the master of engineering if you are you are especially motivated by research so then so then Martin would you like to share the MIT experience also from your experience at MIT yeah thank you so much Maria all right everyone so Maria and Len talked about you know how you're going to look at the end of this program where you're going where your career is going to take and then how you're going to get there academically but you know that's only one aspect of our program we also have a vast MIT experience that you get to partake in whether you're here as a blended student for five months or as a residential student for 10 months so this is our beautiful campus and as we talked about the mission of MIT you know we live by this mission it is a part of everything that we do here um you know we want to advance knowledge and educate students in science technology and other areas of scholarship to best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century so this is the community that you will be joining um you will have the opportunity to engage across campus especially as as you're here physically on campus um you will be able to engage with students across all different schools all different walks of life within your cohort but also within the school of engineering within the larger MIT community as well we also as part of our community building process we take you on a trek we have in the past years gone to Panama and to San Francisco just to you know give you some industry knowledge and connections it's also a really wonderful bonding experience this is my first year on the team and I'm really looking forward to going on the trek this year so this is a really great time for our students to kind of build those relationships within within the cohort and also within the industry while you're on campus you know there are plenty of student clubs and activities to take advantage of in our building we actually have the Martin Trust Center for Entrepreneurship that many students like to engage with and one of our electives or sorry one of our core courses is also taught by Paul Cheek who is the executive director down there um there are many of our students take advantage of the Sloan clubs and activities um as our program does cross over with many of the Sloan course offerings um and there are some areas of interest that overlap so why should you consider the MIT SEM program well you can take only 10 months or five months away from work it's an accelerated program you only need to stop working for a short period of time and then you can come back with more value to add to your industry um we have comparable salary outcomes to every top MBA program uh you know it's just a little bit more specific and a little bit more accelerated to get you where you're going a little bit quicker the SCMR are the residential program does offer OPT and that's up to three years of US work authorization if you're an international student looking for that kind of opportunity this is a cohort experience I talked a little bit about it but really you are going to be a part of a very clear and well bonded cohort when you come to campus um you will have 40 about 40 students in the residential cohort and then in the spring you'll you'll double your size and the blended students will join you so that's a really wonderful network that you get to build and experience and then as I mentioned we have study tracks available that you know allows you to build your global network so we've now talked about the whole program the whole experience at MIT how do you get there how are you going to get into this program well you're going to apply we're really looking forward to seeing all of your applications so here are the brief rundown of our application requirements you know for the residential only we are looking for you to either have taken the micro masters program or the GMAT and GRE as well as a written statement of objectives for the blended program you know we are looking at your performance in the micro masters program as well as on the exam for that program and then your project proposal so you will need to submit a two page description for your capstone project for both of these programs we do require the IELTS or the TOEFL if you're from a non-english speaking nation a video statement is required resume letters of recommendation and your undergraduate transcript we do look holistically at all of these things so here are some tips your video statement first of all should be two minutes long please do not make it longer than two minutes this serves as a personal introduction to the admissions committee and it's really an opportunity for you to demonstrate who you are and tell us about yourself talk about your personal experiences but also your professional accomplishments really try to be yourself don't read a script if you can avoid it we want you to talk to us we want you to be yourself and be authentic and try and have a good time with it I know it's kind of nerve wracking but we suggest practicing just a little bit before you do it just use your webcam to record your video you could use zoom you could use anything really just to make sure that you can record it and then just make sure you know you're well lit we want to be able to see you and we want to be able to hear you clearly we also get a lot of questions about work experience and so Maria talked a little bit about this our typical student has between four and seven years of work experience but it's a two-year minimum requirement if we see a student that is an applicant that has two years of work experience but is stellar and wonderful we're you know we're absolutely looking forward to considering your application and then your resume where you will clearly lay out your experience and your professional journey so far we do have select fellowships and funding available we consider all applicants for fellowships and funding so you can apply in the early rounds in order to kind of be considered a little bit earlier so these are kind of some of our fellowships the scm departmental fellowships that those are within our department here scale scholars which are scholarships towards our scale centers which are located all over the world the awesome fellowship is specifically for women applicants and then the ups fellowship is specifically for ups the ups assigns those fellowships themselves deadlines so we are looking forward like I said we're really looking forward to reviewing your applications and here are all of our deadlines so you can see that our first deadline is coming up on november 1st we're hoping to see many of you submit your applications before then and you'll have decisions by november 28th and then our first blended deadline is december 19th and you'll have decisions by january 2024 the rest of our deadlines are outlined there and we are looking forward to reviewing and now i'm very excited to hand over our current student perspectives drake and mayank who are two of our student current scm residential students class of 2024 and they will share a little bit about their current perspective as they're they've now been on campus what three months so drake and mayank please join us turn your video on and take us away hey everyone um mike i will kick it off i'll give you guys a quick background and then maybe some of the questions that that kind of i'll consolidate and talk about those a little bit um so i studied supply chain in my undergrad i'm originally from south carolina but i've been in chicago since undergrad before moving to boston um studied supply chain from a business perspective and then spent the past four years working in supply chain consulting around um logistic systems kind of in logistic space and technology space anything that overlapped with between those two could be in my realm um so i built a pretty good business background but coming to mit two of my goals were kind of get a broad end end supply chain experience so if you've had a lot of kind of domain experience in one area of supply chain it's great to broaden out and then two on the kind of data and analytics side right maria talked about it everybody's using it now and so to sharpen those skills that was a big focus for myself um i'll say one thing a lot of the questions in the chat were kind of hey if i have this background in this number of years of experience you know what would i fit in i'll say the one thing there's no mold of what the program's looking for there's no specific experience that is being looked at the point of coming to grad school is to have diverse experiences right so some of us worked in supply chain some of us some of my peers were in venture capital they were data scientists they were in manufacturing and it really adds to the program because if we were all the same we wouldn't learn from each other right and so regardless of what your background is if you have an interest and passion in supply chain like definitely apply that's what makes the program beautiful because we have so many different experiences that contributes to all of our classes um and makes it just a lot more learning even outside the classroom um so my i'll let you introduce yourself give a quick background and then happy to answer specific questions about our experience yeah hello everyone and good evening to people who are joining late my name is mayank i'm from india before coming to MIT i worked as a manager position in automobile industry way back in india in marty suzuki where i grew from an engineer to a managerial position learning from my cross functional experiences there and at some point i realized that i needed in-depth knowledge in one field so i pinned down to supply chain other option i had was an MBA but i feel that to get the role to get the outcome that i need a specialized master's program in supply chain is better suited towards me and then i applied for MIT it is the best program that supply chain offer on this planet and coming towards the questions that i seen the q and a many of you have like um queries about like am i eligible to this program or is my experience suitable for it so the only way to get to know us talk to us like reach out to us will help you and there is no correct answer like this program is really looking to having a diverse cohort so the better the sooner you apply the better the chance to get in because there won't be like many people that have similar backgrounds so it is like that for this program and i'm also looking for some questions that i'll be i love to answer thank you so much both of you um um maybe um each of you can talk a little bit about what drew you to a graduate degree in the first place um what are you hoping to do after you you leave the SCM program so my goal is to continue working in the industry with this specialized supply chain knowledge i'll be able to understand the business perspective of supply chain in a better way i want to improve as a person i was before the supply chain and with the challenging courses and the transformational learning that i'm having here i'm sure that i'm in the right direction and i'll definitely reach my goal here yeah so i mentioned it a little bit maybe i'll talk um right because i looked at MBA programs right so maybe about our program versus MBA programs i think it all depends on what you want to get out of the program i'm biased the cost benefit is is uh much stronger with our program right and the the beauty of it was i knew i didn't want to i wanted to get technical and analytical experience but i also still wanted some of the quote MBA s classes if you want to call them right and we talked about kind of the the relationship with Sloan you still have that opportunity and so it's kind of the best of both worlds with our class in only one year so career opportunities are comparable you're still in classes with MBA students they're in your group projects but you also get kind of the focus supply chain experience as well so i think it's the best of both worlds um i wanted to broaden out and so that that gives me the opportunity coming here to broaden out and kind of looking forward um get a little bit more into and on the supply chain side it's great to talk to Len you know i have an idea of what i wanted to do and Len and Justin have been very very helpful and and you know thinking through what's next um so if you don't know exactly what you want to do after that's okay i know directionally what i'm interested in but fleshing that out on specific companies you know sometimes it's tough the the great thing is with the alumni even this summer right i talked to Len over the summer he connected me with alumni that i was talking to in july before i even got on campus and so the alumni all those conversations that you have allow you to figure out what you want to do next so if you don't know directly what it looks like coming out the program that's okay um it might change what i came in and what i do after may not be the same thing but that's okay with that said i do think as you guys apply you know put some thought into types of work you want to do after um it's important that from the program perspective yes we're looking for you to have good experience but also you know we want you to be successful after this and the program stays number one because the alumni are very strong so put some thought into how um you're going to help out the program while you're here as well as as after because that's important in your applications i would like also to emphasize i mean what would rake mention about the alumni then is a very strong alumni network so we have the senior bp of supply channel tesla we have ceo's in our network and they are super committed with the with the community the mit community because they have been using the alumni when they were here so then is a very powerful alumni network that we cultivate and then once you graduate you will be in that site so you will come back here at mit campus and then you will love to come back here to mit campus to reconnect to remember your good times when you were here and also to hire and this is a very i mean a very fruitful engagement um that we are having with the alumni as rake mentioned great thank you both kate do we have a question for our panelists yeah yeah we have a few that came through um so someone's wondering what your favorite thing about your experience so far has been as the semester started related to the environment or classmates or classes like maybe what's your favorite class great question rake do you want to start us off yeah i'll list a couple of things um so one i love that our class is so international so we're 60 or 70 international and so it feels like there's a holiday in some part of the world you know once a month or once every three weeks and so i've just learned culturally so much more um so there is a social side to it right we work hard but there's also a lot of social aspects to it um we have you know social event leads stuff like that so the international aspect is a lot of fun um going on clubs so i'm learning to row right now and so wednesdays and fridays i'm up at 5 30 in the morning on the charles river and so there's a lot of opportunities like that a lot of my peers have learned to sail um so that's a ton of fun and the clubs are kind of open to all of us right um my favorite class people love or hate this class it's called system dynamics it's a lot of work i spent a lot of time on it but it's really interesting kind of moving from especially in supply chain context you know if we make this decision what are the four unintended consequences that that are going to affect us so kind of circular thinking versus um kind of linear thinking it's just a completely new way to think about things um so we're really enjoying that class yeah for me i'm really enjoying uh logistical systems it is a core course of supply chain management very important chris kaplis is taking it i really love the way he teaches and as far as boston is concerned yes i'm also exploring boston very much the walk and the run besides the charles river it's amazing like everybody's exploring it and yeah the main thing which i enjoy is the diversity of the program like you know you are getting to know about the diversity how supply chain functions and the way people like end of the day supply chain is people's job so you need to understand every aspect of like whatever chance you get to understand people that that it is and this program offers you that the diversity it is the most favorite thing that i really enjoy another question is how busy is your class schedule so how many classes do you take a day what is your week kind of look like in general yeah so it depends on how much credits are you taking like if you are taking a moderate credits like you can be having one or two classes from monday to thursday and recitations on friday and if you are like choosy and if you're taking less credits like moderately then you can have maybe a day off like i have my tuesdays off so i use that day to cover my homework and assignments and rest of the day i have classes yeah just real quick so i we also have these half terms and so it gets a little bit more nuanced but i have three classes on monday wednesday and then one on tuesday thursday the rest of the time is pretty much spent in group projects it's a lot more group projects and so you're still working it's not like you're going to class there's a lot of preparations for the classes so yeah you're spending time even if you're not in class still doing work but there is time for social stuff you're not working you know 90 hour weeks um just on classwork i mean this is mit this is a rigorous program we would expect that you all be working hard uh but also playing of course because this is your one year to make the most of it i just to emphasize here that then the the minimum for for graduation is 90 credits yeah but we allow up to 120 credits so it means that then you can customize the effort you want to put without any extra money yeah because it's a typical question oh i am going i'm going to pay more no then you have the freedom to decide which kind of law would you want to do because maybe some of you you want to take leadership in the clubs or maybe to do more networking or more recruiting than others so then you can customize your pure academic effort with other activities you can run here that's a really great point maria and also uh a thing that i heard from both mayank and drake is that you know your team classes um in specifically in supply chain like supply chain logistics which mayank mentioned and then also system dynamics which is actually a slown course um that drake is taking right now um so that just kind of emphasizes that you can be taking classes across mit it does not have to be only within our specific school you are as an mit student you are open to take classes wherever you want right any other questions kate um someone's wondering about your experience so far with career consulting and job fairs maybe you can talk about some of the companies that have come in and talk to your class yeah i can start on this one um so i've entered the process of interviewing right now so have some interviews next week so it does start fast i will say one thing that was mentioned is you know if you're going to get a job employability it's not um something that you should stress about i think one of the things that has surprised me a little bit is how holistic the program is of don't worry about getting the job like think about what you want to actually do and so during orientation we have kind of strengths assessments and then a coach come in and talk us through it's much more about your skill development and how you want to think about things and how you present yourself what you want to do and then how to how do you articulate your strengths of um why you would be able to do that and so i think that's maybe one thing right there's all these companies coming here we have career fairs through mit i think i've just been pleasantly surprised on the overall development not just hey get a job and then kind of move on check them off the list and they have a job and they're fine um even with alumni right they still have access to learn and just then to reach out um which which is really nice it doesn't intense when you've made your caps into classes and uh recruiting but i'll say just it it's really helpful to have a clear idea you know as you figure out what you want to do next first thing i have no idea and then um you know just figuring it out that's more stressful uh i think the career services that this program is really amazing just in ann land they provide feedbacks for everything like as soon as i got my admit they were in touch for improving our resumes and what works in us versus what not works in us that's the thing because we are specifically looking jobs in us so everything has to be customized according to us and after we came here like we had constant meetings understanding ourselves like they have helped us to understand ourselves better to leverage our strengths and look for a goal that will suit well for our purpose so they are doing great job at this and i don't think any other college provides support of this extent in supply chain so this is really amazing one of the quick thing i'll add so um i'm looking at consulting and some of my other peers are i think in addition to the career services having that diverse cohort like when i'm doing case prep with my peers they see things that i haven't seen and i see things they haven't seen based on our experiences um so even from your peers in the class there's a lot of uh just encouraging people um in their application process if one of us had an interview and somebody else has it the next day you know helping you know here's how you can think about prepping for it um but also having those varied backgrounds definitely helps people to get jobs right we're stronger because we have diverse backgrounds i'll also add a thing to it like since we have come like every week there is a company coming we have coffee chats we are getting perspective of what alumni's are doing from MIT SCM and what are the goals that we can have in mind after this program so yeah and MIT career fair you can attend Howard career fair so it's open to all the students it's a very good way to network to organizations and see what what works in us and what doesn't work all right thank you so much both of you for joining us and um everyone uh please join me in thanking our Mayank and Drake for sharing their perspectives and thank you everyone for your really awesome questions um but we are coming towards the end so if you need to hop off it is no problem but thank you so much for joining us i'm going to stop sharing my screen thank you so much