Careers
Recent Graduate Career Survey
CAREER STATISTICS |
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US$ 71KAvg. starting salary |
18%created their own company |
ALUMNI JOB FUNCTIONS & SECTORS |
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||||||||||||||||||||| 21% Consulting | |
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International Dimension
80% of Alumni declared having a job with an international dimension.
RECRUITING COMPANIES |
Graduates assume high-level positions in various roles across Europe, North America, Asia and the rest of the world.
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WHERE ARE OUR ALUMNI BASED? |
2 POWERFUL WORLWIDE NETWORKS |
When you join ESSEC Business School & CentraleSupélec, you join two global alumni communities! You will discover within the communities, the power of both networks.
ESSEC ALUMNI
ESSEC Alumni already has 62 000 graduates with diverse profiles dispersed in all corners of the world: 60 countries. With unique personalities, they share a common goal, to achieve their career objectives.
As you enter ESSEC, you become a member of ESSEC Alumni and you remain one forever. This is, in principal, the lifetime membership, that ESSEC has been the first French Business school with a global reach to put in place.
At each step, before and after your course, ESSEC Alumni allows you to:
- find an internship or a job in France or abroad
- manage your professional progression
- switch career paths, become entrepreneurs or independent consultants
- facilitate exchange with professionals with common goals
- maintain contact with your cohort and the community.
Discover all the services and facilities offered by ESSEC Alumni here
CENTRALESUPELEC ALUMNI
CentraleSupélec has a network of 35,500 active graduates in all sectors around the world. With its international coverage across 4 campuses (Paris-Saclay and Beijing), CentraleSupélec accounts for:
- 4,200 students and 370 teachers and teacher-researchers interacting with its international network.
- 600 doctoral students in 7 laboratories and research teams.
- 3 schools abroad (China, India and Morocco) and 5 associated international laboratories (Brazil, Canada, United States and china).
- 176 foreign partner universities.
- 140 partner companies.
Career Services
CAREER GUIDANCE & SUPPORT |
We continually strive to give you guidance and support during your time at the school and thereafter as a graduate. When you obtain your degree with us, you tap in the network, partner companies, faculty and general contacts of not one but two top-tier schools both highly respected in their respective fields.
You can choose from an exceptionally wide range of options to help shape your career:
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Recruitment Events |
Recurrently held with over 500 ESSEC’s partner companies and 140 CentraleSupélec’s partner companies, such as on-campus forums and sector-specific seminars, career round tables and company presentations. | |
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Interview and CV Workshops |
plus career orientation guidance to prepare students to optimise their entry into the professional world and develop their career plans. | |
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Online Job Portal |
where more than 21,000 internship opportunities and 6,000 job offers for young graduates are posted each year. |
You also access an active and extensive global network of more than 62,000 alumni from ESSEC & 35,500 alumni from CentraleSupélec worldwide, which you will become a part of upon graduating! Visit ESSEC Alumni
The ecosystem, reputation, and networks of both schools will ensure you have every opportunity on the job market.
YOUR INCUBATOR |
Moreover, if you are (or would like to be) an entrepreneur, ESSEC Business School provides you with the opportunity to join our in-house incubator, ESSEC Ventures, which supports you whilst you develop and launch your startup project.
- 413: business creation projects received support;
- 300: start-ups created;
- 72: start-ups’ survival rate after five years
- €300 M: amount of equity raised by ESSEC Ventures start-ups
- Eligibility for seed capital fund ESSEC Ventures
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