I was able to sign my offer letter before graduation because I built my job search on two simple ideas, both of which I sharpened with assistance from the Lally School. The ideas were: a firm understanding of what I wanted to do and an understanding that networking without a plan is superficial!

The Lally School was crucial to my success by helping me to cultivate a robust group of professional relationships and teaching me how to sustain these relationships well into my future.  Degree candidates at Lally realize that there is a difference between systematically developing genuine relationships that will complement their strengths and weaknesses and grow them as professionals versus a shallow and superficial approach to networking opportunistically.  

- Daniel Murray MBA '12