McCombs Template Usage Notes

 Slide Selection: You can select and modify any of the existing slides in the template, or you can create a
new slide employing the template’s Master pages
 Placing Text: Select and delete the sample text in the slides, and add your own. Your new text should retain
the formatting of the template
 Placing Images: The images in this template are placed in picture placeholders.
 To reliably size a new image to fit in the placeholders, first right-click the image that you want to replace and select
“Change Picture” (see example below.) Then navigate to your new image and click “Insert.” Your new image should
now fit within the boundaries of the picture placeholder box
 To fill a picture placeholder with an image, first click and delete the current image, and then click the icon in the
placeholder to “insert picture from file”

Right-click an image and

use the “Change Picture”
option to get your new
image to fit within the
boundaries of the picture
placeholder box

Usage Notes and Best Practices

McCombs Template Best Practices
 Use the Interstate or Arial fonts
 Use the correct McCombs logos (.PNGs work best for PowerPoint)
 Follow McCombs Brand Standards
 Use the McCombs color palette
199 R 170 R 0R 234 R 152 R 0R 183 R 189 R 241 R
91 G 156 G 0G 171 G 30 G 44 G 173 G 177 G 227 G
18 B 143 B 0B 0B 50 B 95 B 102 B 166 B 187 B

 Avoid using small font sizes for main ideas

 Avoid these treatments for best results
 Clipart and word art
 Drop shadows
 Unnecessary animations, transitions, and sound effects

Usage Notes and Best Practices

Working Professional Program
MBA Career Management
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MBA Career Management
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MBA Career Management
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MBA Career Management
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MBA Career Management
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MBA Career Management
Executive MBA
Lunch Seminar Series
February 6, 2015
C. Reynold, Director, MBA Career Management
Executive MBA
Lunch Seminar Series
February 6, 2015
C. Reynold, Director, MBA Career Management
Executive MBA
Lunch Seminar Series
February 6, 2015
C. Reynold, Director, MBA Career Management
Executive MBA
Lunch Seminar Series
February 6, 2015
C. Reynold, Director, MBA Career Management
Executive MBA
Lunch Seminar Series
February 6, 2015
C. Reynold, Director, MBA Career Management
Executive MBA
Lunch Seminar Series
February 6, 2015
C. Reynold, Director, MBA Career Management
Executive MBA
Lunch Seminar Series
February 6, 2015
C. Reynold, Director, MBA Career Management
 LIFE AS A TEXAS MBA STUDENT
Preview Weekend – April 18, 2015

Dionne Arlene
Director, Full-Time MBA Student Affairs
Discover your career paths:
 Career Shifter: someone seeking to evolve from one career
path to another, with the hope of changing your professional area
or industry upon graduation
 Career Enhancer: someone seeking opportunities for
advancement within your current profession
 Career Explorer: someone interested in looking at a variety of
potential new roles, but not necessarily ready to make a change
now
 Entrepreneur/Founder: someone interested in running or
wishing to start their own business

Typical Career Paths

Rowling Hall Construction Timelapse
The World is Your Classroom
McCombs helped
make me fearless.
Naoko Koharu, MBA 2011
Marketing Associate, Nestle
 Life as a Texas MBA Student
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Academic Experiential Organizations Resources

Transitioning to Austin
 42% of students accepted a FT offer from their internship
2014 Accepted Job Source %
School Facilitated 69%
Internship 36%
OCR Interviews 20%
Non-School Facilitated 31%
Personal Network 10%
Internship 7%

Where did jobs come from?