Not all risk-taking MBAs are heading back to get help from their schools to find traditional jobs. Some still believe in the dot-com revolution. Cotrone says Michigan's 2001 grads probably won't match the average 3.2 job offers that the class of 2000 got, according to data collected by BusinessWeek. Graduating MBAs at the University of Texas at Austin's McComb's School of Business and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Sloan School of Management are cautious of jobs with startup companies, both schools report. And it's not just recent grads in the dot-com field who are victims of the slowdown.
Schools say grads from a range of classes are coming back for help.
He was laid off in December from his second new media job since 1998. And the best job leads, he adds, come from business school. After all, headhunters aren't calling as much as they used to. With grads heading back to campus to network with fellow alums and say hello in the career offices, B-schools at the University of North Carolina and Dartmouth College are working to have alumni programs in place as soon as possible. Bid on or offer business services Web design, logo design, computer consulting, and more.