Posts Tagged ‘companies’

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?

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 Career Week

October 26, 2009

Today begins the long awaited ESADE Career Week. In the coming three days many companies are coming to the campus to recruit MBA students for internships (MBA class of 2011)  or full-time positions for those that graduate in March 2010. Many companies urged us students to apply prior to this career week so that the companies and recruiters can take advantage and conduct the interviews while here.

The following companies are coming to campus for recruitment:

  • Abbott
  • Accenture
  • AD Little
  • AT Kearney
  • Barclays
  • Barclays Capital
  • BCG
  • Bertelsmann
  • Celsa
  • Delta Partners
  • DPWN
  • DuPont
  • EBRD
  • Emerson
  • Europraxis
  • FSA
  • GE
  • ICRC
  • Morgan Stanley
  • Novartis
  • Roland Berger
  • Santander
  • Siemens
  • Syngenta
  • UNDP

This year the demand for certain company presentations has been so strong that ESADE has decided to provide live-streams of certain presentations. The cameras will be set-up in two rooms and all the presentations in those two rooms will streamed on the ESADE intranet. At least they will try to do that.

Now I wish everybody successful interviews and hopefully you all the find the job you want to do and the company you want to work for.  Today I will have my interview with Roland Berger Strategy Consultants so fingers crossed.


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