Your Graduate Business Career Services professionals are here to help. There are several appointment scheduling options and the many services listed below. Watch for emails from the director, Tabatha Carney, assistant director, Mounika Maddala, and career services specialist, Sarah Van Vark, throughout the year. These emails will have valuable information regarding career fairs, information sessions, career workshops, and more.
Meet your Career Professional
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Tabatha Carney
Director, Graduate Business Career Services
Director, Graduate Business Career Services
Tabatha Carney
Tabatha Carney is the director of Graduate Business Career Services. She leads graduate career services programming, employer relations, professional development courses, and graduation employment reporting. She has over 20 years of experience as a career development professional. Prior to the past nine years at Iowa State, she served in higher education development roles, teaching, corporate recruitment, management, marketing, business ownership, and training and development. She has a master of science in administration – organizational leadership from the University of South Dakota and a bachelor of science degree from Iowa State University.
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Mounika Maddala
Assistant Director, Graduate Business Career Services
Assistant Director, Graduate Business Career Services
Mounika Maddala
Mounika Maddala is the assistant director of Graduate Business Career Services. She guides graduate business students through their job search process, teaches a professional development course, gathers post-graduation outcomes, and builds relationships with organizations that have an interest in hiring interns and alumni of the Ivy graduate programs. Additionally, she serves as a data analyst for graduate programs. Prior to the past two years at Iowa State, she worked in IT recruitment for four years and one year in the banking and finance industry. Her qualifications are reinforced by an MBA in human resources and marketing and a bachelor of technology in mechanical engineering.
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Sarah Van Vark
Career Services Specialist, Graduate Business Career Services
Career Services Specialist, Graduate Business Career Services
Sarah Van Vark
Sarah Van Vark is a career services and admissions specialist for the Graduate Business Programs. She has 13 years of experience in higher education and over six years of recruitment experience. In her current role she assists graduate students with the admissions process and post-graduation outcomes, as well as teaches a professional development course. Prior to that, She worked as a career coordinator in the Ivy Undergraduate Business Career Services office for 12 years. She also has six years of experience working as a corporate recruiter in the financial services industry.
You don’t have to go it alone. Leveraging career services can show you what good looks like. They prepare you to be successful because they’ve seen it all by working with students, like me, to achieve their employment and early career goals.