The Poole Career Center helps our marketing analytics students land their dream jobs by offering highly-customized services that address their individual needs and goals.
Career Services
All students in the Master of Management, Marketing Analytics (MMA) program have access to the following career services.
Career Coaching
The Poole Career Center team coaches students on how to communicate their newly acquired value to their employers (current or future).
Students can schedule one-on-one coaching appointments with one of our exceptionally qualified executive coaches.
Flexible Scheduling
Our career services are accessible through flexible time slots and formats to accommodate students’ busy schedules.
Career Workshops
The Poole Career Center hosts workshops each semester to help students develop their resumes, craft cover letters and build impressive LinkedIn profiles.
Professional Assessments
The Career Center conducts several assessments to help students identify potential growth areas and prepare for success, including an emotional intelligence assessment. Staff members on the Career Center team are specially certified to conduct these assessments and can ensure you get the most value from the results.
A Customized Approach
The Career Center team evaluates where each student is, where they’re headed and what’s most important to their professional development, and then customizes their approach to meet those needs.
Unlike the services offered to other graduate programs at Poole, including the Jenkins MBA, career services for the MRA and MMA programs are tailored to students’ interest in analytics.
Lifelong Support
The Career Center provides lifelong career support long after graduation, including career coaching and online services.
Lisa is the founder/CEO of Capital Coaching, LLC. She established her coaching practice to support mid-career business and IT professionals to manage their careers and help them apply lessons she learned from developing her staff members at Fidelity as well as from her own multiple internal IT and managerial promotions.
Lisa has over twenty-five years of technology experience in the chemicals, state government, supply chain management, and financial services sectors. She launched her career transition from chemical engineering to IT as an entrepreneur and web developer then expanded into corporate roles of analysis, project management, before moving into a leadership position as development manager and then as director of quality assurance engineering at Fidelity Investments. Strong relationships have been a hallmark of Lisa’s career – whether it be in a service or sales capacity working with clients or as a manager and leader of onshore and offshore teams across the US, China, India and Ireland. In her corporate career, she was a mentor, advocate and coach for her many team members. As a volunteer career coach at Dress For Success and as a private practice executive coach, Lisa has provided the insight, advice and inspiration that has helped her clients to achieve their goals.
Lisa received her MBA in 2012 from North Carolina State University – Jenkins Graduate School of Management with a concentration in Finance & Marketing. She received her BS in Chemical Engineering from North Carolina State University. Lisa has also completed training as an Authentic Leadership Coach at Raleigh Coaching Academy.
Ed has more than twenty-five years of experience within the talent acquisition, staffing, recruiting, and human resources environment with additional experience in project management, business management and recruiting management. Much of Ed’s career has been working with clients and candidates matching the two together to help clients grow their businesses and to help candidates grow their careers. Ed has been the co-founder and the founder of four entrepreneurial companies in his career and has worked in the big business corporate environment as well as in the small business environment. His experience includes supporting talent acquisition programs in the United States, Canada, Great Britain, India, and China.
Ed received his MBA in 2010 from North Carolina State University – Jenkins Graduate School of Management with a concentration in Services Management & Consulting. He received his BS in Business Administration from North Carolina Wesleyan College and he attended Appalachian State University and participated in the Industrial Technology program. Ed is a certified Professional in Human Resources and he is a certified Project Management Professional.
Dave is a human-centered educational leader with 3,000+ teaching and 4,000+ coaching hours. His career highlights include designing enterprise-wide manager and leadership programs at Fidelity Investments, directing graduate career services at Duke University’s Fuqua School of Business, and writing 3 job search guidebooks for Vault Career Intelligence. Dave has experience coaching all aspects of the job search across sectors and levels. He loves helping others identify and articulate the unique value they add. He also enjoys coaching individuals who want help developing a job search strategy, preparing for interviews, navigating personal leadership transitions, or customizing their onboarding strategy.
All the knowledge in the world is useless unless you have connections – and the NC State community is very well-connected.
Tim McKay ’23
Questions?
For any questions about the student services our team provides, please contact the Career Center at poole_careers@ncsu.edu.