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EMPLOYER GUIDELINES: MBA Programs

2024-2025 Academic Year

To create consistency across organizations that recruit at the McCombs School of Business and to ensure your support

of our academic mission, Texas McCombs Career Management and Corporate Relations (CMCR) requests your

agreement to abide by the spirit of the following guidelines. Please communicate these guidelines to all professionals

• McCombs-facilitated interviewing of graduating MBA students (for full-time roles) begins Monday,

September 16, 2024. Facilitated interviewing of MBA internship candidates (first year students in our Full-

Time Program) begins in January.

• If an interview conflicts with a student’s prior academic obligation, employers are strongly encouraged to

offer the student an alternative interview date or time without negative consequence.

• Interviews requiring a significant time commitment are encouraged to be held on Fridays so that students

will not miss class. We have reduced the academic conflicts on most Fridays for Full-Time MBA students.

Working Professional MBA students in our Houston and DFW Programs have class every other Friday

evening.

or results in diminished base salary within a short period of time. This type of offer places undue pressure on

a student and, as such, is viewed as inappropriate conduct. We also classify requiring a verbal acceptance to

receive a written offer as an “exploding offer.”

• The CMCR offer guidelines are designed to allow students a sufficient consideration period in order to

reasonably explore career opportunities, which reduces risk of renege occurrences and improves retention

for employers. Renege occurrences are typically due to early offer deadlines, given the increased amount of

time for student exploration and change in circumstances post-acceptance. For employers whose industries

operate on an early or fast timeline for filling roles, we suggest leaving the offer response timeline open as

long as possible to help mitigate the risk of renege.

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• Full-time Offers:

o All offers for full-time employment made in the fall semester should remain open until December 1 or a

minimum of three weeks after the date of the offer, whichever is later.

o Full-time offers made in the spring semester before March 1 should remain open for a minimum of three

weeks after the date of the written offer.

o After March 1, offers should remain open for a minimum of two weeks after the date of the written

offer.

• Internship Offers:

o Internship offers should remain open until February 15 or a minimum of three weeks after the date of

Additional Employer Expectations and Accountability

• Employers that misrepresent employment opportunities to students or represent misconduct deemed

inappropriate by the school will risk losing access or privileges to CMCR recruiting resources. It is imperative

that all individuals meet UT’s expectation that the environment remains focused on respect and provides a

to refuse access to employers at any time. The University of Texas at Austin cannot indemnify employers

from employment liability.

• We strongly discourage any employer from withdrawing offers, altering base compensation, or

drastically changing the position timeframe or position location. If you must rescind an offer,

• We request that employers notify us

Student Accountability

• All acceptances must be in writing. Acceptances may occur in either electronic or hardcopy.

• Students sign and are expected to abide by our CMCR Recruiting Agreement, which includes expectations

surrounding interview cancellations, no-shows, offer acceptances, and more. If a student accepts an offer of

employment and later reneges on the acceptance, please notify us

in accepting an offer and want the opportunity to follow up with the candidate. CMCR has provisions to