As part of the M.B.A. program at the UC Davis Graduate School of Management, students are required to spend their summer between their first and second year on a working assignment in the corporate world. For 31-year-old Beth Haas, last summer's job with a national accounting firm proved extremely satisfying. Given the task of working with a client as an operational consultant, she looked for ways to improve the efficiency of a manufacturing company. Her three-month analysis produced specific recommendations that resulted in a savings of $800,000. "Not only was the client ecstatic but the accounting firm offered me a job as soon as I graduated," Haas says. Her story is not unlike that of other UC Davis M.B.A. students who have been successful in getting corporate jobs through the school's internship program. For many students in the school of management, Don Blodger, director of the school's career services center, has been the key to unlocking their career doors. He searches for good student/company matches and assists students with the interview process.