The Berkeley Haas Employer Relations team strives to make the MBA recruiting process as successful as possible for both our students and recruiting partners.
We hold our students to the highest standards of professionalism. Policies are in place to insure that students respect your time and effort. Students understand that behavior such as failing to attend an interview without prior notification or, most seriously, reneging on an accepted offer, carries repercussions.
In turn, we ask you to respect the following policies when recruiting our students.
Recruiting Policies
Students have consented to make their resumes available to companies and organizations through the various Haas resume books and resume drops. These are to be used solely for recruitment purposes.
In order to foster a cooperative learning environment, historically, full-time MBAs have adopted a non-disclosure policy with respect to their grades and academic honors earned during their MBA program. The policy calls for all students, regardless of program, not to verbally or in any other way, disclose Haas grades throughout the entire recruiting process.
If you ask students to apply via your website, please be aware that students may skip a question requesting MBA GPA or enter “0” into that field. If you have questions or concerns about this policy, please contact your MBA Career Management relationship manager. Note that this is a student voted policy and not the opinion of the school.
We do not condone students missing class in order to attend an interview, and we encourage students to swap interview times prior to finalizing your schedule in order to accommodate their academic work. Recruiter changes to a schedule after it has been published can result in a conflict with a class time for a candidate and can negatively impact a student’s academic work. Please make every effort not to change your schedule after it becomes final. In the event that last-minute changes arise, we ask that you be flexible with our students and give them the option to reschedule the interview.
We ask that recruiters make every attempt to provide students with sufficient notice of the timing of second-round interviews. To avoid scheduling conflicts with student academic responsibilities, we recommend that you offer at least one alternate date for second-round or on-site interviews. Please notify your relationship manager of your proposed call-back schedule as early as possible so that we can help you manage potential conflicts with other student activities.
Because of the importance that employers, students, and the Haas School place on accepting an offer, we strongly recommend that firms provide sufficient time for a student to consider an offer. If you have questions or concerns about an offer acceptance deadline, please contact your MBA Career Management relationship manager.
- Students who receive full-time offers from their summer internship employer have until November 15, 2021 or at least 15 business days from the written offer date, whichever is later, to respond.
- Students who receive full-time offers during Fall recruiting have until November 30, 2021 or at least 15 business days from the written offer date, whichever is later, to respond.
- Students who receive summer internship offer as a result of pre-MBA and diversity offsite conferences have until February 15, 2022 to respond.
- Students who receive summer internship offers during Spring recruiting have until February 15, 2022 or at least 15 business days from the written offer date, whichever is later to respond.
- Students who receive just-in-time summer internship or full-time offers after March 1 should ask for a written offer and be given at least 5 business days from the written offer date to respond.
To avoid academic conflicts, all summer internships must end prior to the first day of class which, in 2022, will be August 22.
We do not allow our employers to provide undue pressure or unreasonable expectations around accepting offers. Negative offer terms include:
- Exploding offers
- Requiring students to respond to verbal (not written) offers
- Requiring students to respond to offers (whether real or hypothetical) on the spot
- Changes to offer terms
- Rescinding an offer
Such actions may negatively impact your reputation among the students and the school.
Recruiting Policies for Investment Banks
These policies apply to IB offices participating in any of the following activities in the academic year leading up to applicable interviews: on-campus networking events/presentations/information sessions organized through the Career Management Group, our IB Speed Networking Event, and on-campus interviewing.
For on-campus interviews for summer internships, there will be a dedicated first round interview period between January 3 – 5, 2022. Following any IB summer internship interviews–whether on-campus interviews or off-campus — no IB summer internship offer may be made prior to January 7, 2022, at 5:00 pm PT. Students are required to complete all scheduled IB on-campus interviews before accepting an offer.
We ask that firms make every attempt to provide students with sufficient notice of the timing of second-round interviews. To avoid scheduling conflicts with student academic and personal responsibilities, we require that you offer at least one alternate date for second round or on-site interviews if requested. Flexibility in this area allows students and firms sufficient time to ensure the best organizational fit. We discourage “all-day superdays,” and encourage half-day or shorter interviews so that students can more easily work them into their schedules. Another option is to have second rounds in conjunction with your on-campus first rounds.
Because of the importance that employers, students and the Haas School place on accepting an offer, we need firms to provide sufficient time for a student to consider an offer.
- Students who receive full-time offers from their summer internship employer have until November 15, 2021 or at least 15 days from the written offer date, whichever is later, to respond.
- Students who receive full-time offers during fall recruiting have until November 30, 2021 or 15 days from the written offer date, whichever is later, to respond.
- Students who receive internship offers during spring recruiting have until January 24, 2022 or at least 10 business days from the written offer date, whichever is later, to respond.
We prohibit such employers from providing undue pressure, unreasonable expectations, or negative terms around accepting offers. These include:
- Exploding offers (i.e. inside the dates above)
- Requiring students to respond to verbal (not written) offers
- Requiring students to respond to offers (whether real or hypothetical) on the spot
- Changes to offer terms
- Rescinding an offer
Notwithstanding these policies, we recognize that some IBs have firm-wide diversity fellowship programs that involve early opportunities for internship interviews and offers. We support these early opportunities subject to the following conditions:
- Such offers are made before November 10, 2021
- Candidates are given at least ten business days to consider such offers, and there is additional financial support as part of these fellowships.
- For any other early IB offers, students will not be held to our policies related to reneging on accepted offers.
IB-related Questions/Concerns: Please contact William Rindfuss, Financial Services relationship manager at wrindfuss@berkeley.edu or 510-642-0460.