Posts Tagged ‘career services’

ESADE’s network and what to do with it?

February 15, 2010

There can only be one answer to that: grow it! ESADE’s corporate network is already extensive, especially in Spain, however I think that it could grow further. (Find a full list of Partners and recruiters here). In this regard I would like to emphasize the importance of this large network in relationship to career opportunities.

I thought about this over the last couple of days and I was wondering how large our corporate network must be by just considering the previous employers of every student? I would assume that every MBA student has worked on average for 2-3 companies x the 330 MBA students (rough estimate) currently at ESADE, which means that the network of the current students alone is enormous.

Being a fierce opponent of complacency and idleness I figured that it also might be up to the students to be more proactive and initiate a contact between ESADE and the previous employers. Take the network building in your own hands, produce leads, monitor the progress and communicate. Imagine the network we could have if every student shared his connections with his fellow student!!!!

My contacts are already contributed. Why don’t you share yours?

Career Services’ reactions and promises…

February 2, 2010

After two meetings with the Career Services yesterday it seems that your feedback on the article had an impact.  It is not quite official yet but the following changes are planned for the coming days and weeks:

  • An official statement of the Management
  • Restructuring of the Career Services (apparently there will be a re-allocation of responsibilites)
  • Implementation of clear processes and K.PERFORMANCE.Is beyond staff-student ratios based on the recommendations of a famous consultancy  (not sure why a Business School spends money on a consultancy but…)
  • Survey for Career Week
  • Migration of discussion to Nexus to open up further “internal” dialogue
  • Workshops with students on how to strengthen Career Services
  • Renaming of Career Week to “Career Forum
  • More in-depth company briefings prior to campus visits
  • Differentiating between company and recruitment presentation
  • A stronger focus on developing company relationships with student clubs and academia
  • Publication of a clear hierarchical structure incl. responsibility allocations (should be expanded across the school in my opinion)
  • More transparency and new faster feedback policies
  • Publication of recruitment/interview statistics
  • and a few more…

Obviously not all of these are a result of the blog article and coincide with some changes that have been planned anyhow but it is a good development in any case.

These are all high aspirations and it is important that they are being implemented however most probably this will take some time.  However I still hope and think that it is important that the outgoing students see the changes implemented before leaving in two months.

On the other side we still have to acknowledge that they always put in a lot of efforts into attracting companies to campus, organising the career week, etc. And  you can’t honestly expect them to offer you placements. We do all need to be proactive ourselves. The crisis is bad for placements but that’s was already clear when we started, no?

In any case the latest discussions and feedback from us students have been heard. Let’s see and good job hunting!!

After Career Week = Before Career Week

January 28, 2010

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Update [31.01.2009,21:37h]: I think that the points have been made. I have taken the comments offline for now and now it is time for a dialogue. Everybody involved has been informed.
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Today somebody explained the Career Week quite well in class: “Career Week was a good branding exercise for the companies…!

ESADE itself did a great job! The networking tent was excellent and the video conferencing presentations worked really well. They also did well in  attracting quite a good number of interesting companies and there where some good positions available without a doubt. That however applied to only a few company presentations I attended!

From a lecture point of view some of the company presentations were very interesting especially the questioning session.

From a presentation skill or assessment point of view, they failed! Not all but many of them failed the whole point of Career Week.  A French luxury goods group was a good example!45min company presentation in Spanish, 20min questioning session. In the 65th min (5min overtime) one student finally asked the most important question: why did come you to ESADE? Answer: Oh yes, btw. we have a position in Portual but you have to speak Portuguese and preferably French! Mission of branding accomplished. Task failed!

If you give a presentation at a Career Week you should at least have a vacancy, mention the job profile at the beginning and sponsor visas in case applicants are non-residents! How about a job vacancy in Korea and you need to speak Korean! That applied to 1 student at entire ESADE. Thank you very much!

I still wish everybody applying to those companies a lot of luck and best of luck with your own job hunting in case you are also looking outside!

(For those interested in working for the French luxury goods group, I can confirm that everybody present had a handbag from its own company, men included!).

ESADE Winter Career Week (22.01.-26.01.10)

January 22, 2010

Today the ESADE Winter Career Week begins and will take place as well on Monday (25.01.10) and Tuesday (26.01.10) on the ESADE Campus Building 3. This will be great recruiment opportunity for all MBA students graduating in March 2010 and the first year students looking for summer internships.

There is a great line-up of companies presenting on campus as well as video presentations and workshops. Today the Career Week was kicked off by LVMH followed by PepsiCo LatAm this afternoon. Other companies coming are the following:

  • ALFA CONSULTING
  • ALTAIR MANAGEMENT CONSULTANTS
  • AXIS CORPORATE S.L.
  • CENTRE DE RECHERCHE PUBLIC HENRI TUDOR – TECHNOPORT
  • COCA – COLA FEMSA
  • DISNEYLAND PARIS (Business Case)
  • DISNEYLAND PARIS (Presentation)
  • DSM
  • EVERIS
  • GE LATAM
  • INFOSYS
  • JOHNSON & JOHNSON
  • LOEWE
  • L’ORÉAL ESPAÑA S.A.
  • LUXOTTICA
  • LVMH
  • NESTLÉ
  • PEPSICO LATAM
  • ROCHE FARMA SPAIN
  • SK GROUP
  • TECH DATA ESPAÑA SLU
  • TECHNOPAK
  • TRADEBE
  • WERFEN GROUP
  • WILLIAM J. CLINTON FOUNDATION
  • WIPRO
  • ZURICH FINANCIAL SERVICES

This is a great line up offered to us with plenty of networking chances so we have to take advantage of it. I wish everybody a successful recruiment process!!!

MBA Career Portals

October 16, 2009

As we are all currently in the midst of job applications I thought I might be useful to post a list of career websites that are targeted at MBA students all around the world. Most of these websites have relationships to ESADE and therefore there are ESADE specific entry codes, which you can find on the ESADE Careerportal with more detailed information. Have a look at the websites and see whether there is anything of interest to you and when you need anything further consult your the Careerportal. The credits for this list go to the Career Services. Enjoy!

Network MBA UK

Global Workplace

MBA-Direct

Vault MBA offers (mainly USA)

MBA-Exchange

Grad Consultants

MBA Jobs

Latin MBA

Going Global

1) Top 100 MBA Recruiters GLOBAL (2009)
2) Top 100 Global IT (2008)
3) Top 100 Biotech-pharma companies in UK
4) Top 100 Maritime Shipping, Brokerage and Finance Companies ( 2006)
5) Top 100 Management Consulting Companies (2006)
6) Top 100 Companies in ASIA (2009)
7) Global FTSE 100 Companies – GLOBAL (2004)
8) FTSE Euro 100 – Europe (2006)
9) FTSE 100 Companies – UK (2004)
MBA Opportunities in USA companies (November 2007)
TOP MBA Recuiters 2004
Top BW 50 performers 2005 recruiting MBA

Banking & Finance

Consultants

Food

Marketing

Oil

For more detailed information please visit the ESADE Careerportal.

Consulting Club and Career Services Event

July 16, 2009
A message from the Consulting Club:
The Consulting Club and Career Services would like to invite you to attend a Q&A session with Mr. Darek Tasak, ESADE ’06, about his interaction with Career Services during his (recent) time at ESADE and how he managed to secure his first job out of ESADE, at Boston Consulting Group (BCG).

We hope you can all attend this informal Q&A session to learn more about what we should all expect once we start looking for jobs starting in September.
When: 6:15 pm – 7 pm (after class tomorrow)
Where: TBD
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When: 6:15 pm – 7 pm (today)

Where: Room B21
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Agenda:
- ESADE & Career Services
- Expectations & Reality of the job market
- Management Consulting Opportunities after ESADE
- Q&A
Thank you,
Maneesh

Quick Overview of Mr. Tasak’s background:
Tech Data, Barcelona, Spain
Director of Productivity and Efficiency, EMEA
- Designs and implements productivity improvement initiatives, identifies cost saving opportunities and drives related projects in various European business units (17 countries)
- Processes, organization, streamlining, automation, portfolio management, shared services

The Boston Consulting Group (BCG), Barcelona, Spain
Business strategy consulting firm
Senior Consultant
- Advises clients’ top management on improving their companies’ business performance, identifying, understanding and evaluating growth options and strategies, developing action plans
- Elaborated commercial strategy, budget and operation plans for a Spanish broadband division of a major European telecom operator. The plan resulted in double digit client base growth
- Developed strategic plan for a Spanish regional fix line provider (mobile / fix line convergence)
- Counseled a leading media group in launching its expansion into digital media formats
- Optimized back-office functions of an industrial manufacturer through the use of ERP technologies
- Prepared international expansion of a real estate group into Eastern Europe and Latin-America

Orientation Week

April 19, 2009

Last week has been rather short but the more busy. On Tuesday Orientation week started, which launched an important chapter in all our MBA and post-MBA lives. We got to meet our peers! To briefly give you an glimpse of the diversity of the One Year MBA Class of 2010, the profiles are the following:

  • 40 students
  • 20 nationalities
  • Average age: 30 years
  • Average work experience: 7.5 years
  • 19 languages

This week was never short of group-building activities and we did everything from blindfolding others, paintballing, humantower-building (in Villafrance) to going “socialising”, which I guess most call drinking. The week was full of exciting activities and I would never have wanted to miss it and therefore you should make sure that you reach Barcelona in time because it is vital to meet your fellow students before the seriousness starts.

The second objective of the week was the Career Services and recruitment strategies. ESADE prides itself to be among the leading career service providers among the top-ranked MBA schools (view rankings here). We had intensive sessions on CV and Cover Letter writing, self marketing and self-assessments with peers. It is very helpful to be confronted with expert advise who are specialised in the HR and recruitment industry and therefore definitely worthwile. We will explain the career services in details at a later stage.

Overall the Orientation Week was a great success and ended nicely with the Poker/Welcoming Party. In my opinion it was important to meet everyone in a social environment and now it is time to get ready to perform. Tomorrow the courses begin.


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