John Mattson

Biographical Information

2007

 

In February 2007, John Mattson will join the administration of the Fisher Graduate School of International Business at the Monterey Institute of International Studies in Monterey, California, where he will serve as the Director of Career Management and Employer Relations.  Currently, Mattson is Director of Career Services and External Relations at the Graduate School of Management at Clark University in Worcester, Massachusetts.  While at Clark, he was instrumental in developing the business school’s new Stevenish Career Management Center and served as Managing Editor of the School’s alumni publication, Connect.  Prior to joining Clark he was a Career Management Consultant with Career Crossroads in Carlisle, Massachusetts, where he served as a consultant and coach to clients in career transition.

 

Previously, Mattson served as the founding Director of the Feld Career Center at the School of Management at Boston University and Director of Career Services at The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University.  Earlier in his career he worked at Wesleyan University in Middletown, Connecticut, where he served as Associate Director of its Career Center.  Mattson has also worked for The Career Development Team of New York City and with Keystone Partners in Burlington, Massachusetts.  These assignments have involved working with clients such as AT&T, Avid, New York Life, NEC Technologies, and United Technologies Corporation.

 

Over the years, Mattson has also been an instructor of seminars and courses on career development offered at colleges and community education programs in Massachusetts and Connecticut.  Throughout his career he has moderated over 100 career panels with leading business professionals at such venues as CBS News, Exxon-Mobil, Goldman Sachs, McKinsey & Co., Newsweek, the U.S. Treasury and the Departments of Commerce, State, and Defense, as well as The United Nations and The World Bank.  

 

John Mattson is a graduate of Boston University and Tufts University where he received his Master’s degree.  He is a trustee of Dublin School, in Dublin New Hampshire, and a former member of the Advisory Council of the United Nations Association of Greater Boston.  In his leisure time, he enjoys the arts, golf, photography, and international travel.