Global MBA Program - career perspectives

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The fast track for your career development

The #10 European Business School and ranked in the top-ten lists for three different programs by the Financial Times, ESSEC prides itself on providing its graduates with world-class career preparation and the confidence that they are joining a powerful, global network of top-level alumni. Graduates embark on their professional path with vital concrete skills and the insight they need to achieve their personal goals: a winning combination for true competitive advantage.

A worldwide network of excellence

Alumni play an essential role in career building. Invited to the campus on a regular basis, alumni share their professional experience with participants and provide them with constructive feedback on their career plans.
The ESSEC Alumni Association currently brings together a community of 38,000 graduates, with over 45 chapters located worldwide. The ESSEC Alumni Association offers a wide range of services and organizes special events, in order to develop the ESSEC network and image. In addition to offering an Internet portal and an exclusive directory, the association organizes events throughout the year around the world on professional themes, as well as sports, social and cultural events.

Alumni website

Enhancing Your Career

We believe that career development needs to be a central part of your business education, and therefore strive to prepare and empower you for the job-market. Career Services provides an environment where Global MBA participants meet senior line-managers and HR professionals from companies, as well as head-hunters and talent managers, enabling them to find relevant job postings that will lead to the best possible career path. Career Services promotes the MBA talent pool to recruiters and helps the participants to network and search for job-opportunities during the academic year. Career Services works diligently to prepare you with strategy, tools and techniques to conduct a successful job search, with a broad range of services including:

Mentoring program
Individual career coaching and advising
Resume preparation and reviews and a CV book for corporate recruiters
Career development workshops on topics such as self-assessment, networking, careers in finance and consulting, radical career changes, personal branding, social networks, etc.
Resources and online tools
Employment fairs in France and Singapore
Interview preparation and mock interviews
Global Networking Seminar to interact with some of our 38,000 alumni as well as CXOs
Career Treks

Our graduates’ top 10 functions

Consulting studies
Audit
Finance/accounting
Project management
Sales
Law
Marketing & Communications
Human resources
General management/strategy
Supply chain / logistics

Our top 10 recruiters

Accenture
LVMH
Bain & Co
McKinsey
BNP Paribas
Procter & Gamble
KPMG
Société Générale
L’Oréal
The Boston Consulting Group