Career guidance and advice

Throughout your time at ESSEC, the Career Services will accompany you in defining your career plan and facilitating your entry into the professional world.

Through the support of the Career Services team, you will be able to:

- Learn more about yourself and enhance your experiences.

- Explore career opportunities, reflect and develop your personal and professional project.

- Define your internship/job search strategy and prepare yourself for numerous recruitment events through coaching with specialists.

- Prepare your CV, LinkedIn profile and cover letter in an impactful manner, and develop your network efficiently.

- Prepare for different types of job interviews through role-playing exercises (pitching) and learn to position yourself well during salary negotiations.

Meeting with professionals and recruitment opportunities

In addition to the offers received and shared with all the major business schools, the Career Services team receives more than 17,000 internship, apprenticeship and VIE offers each year, and more than 6,000 job offers and exclusive Graduate Program offers, both in France and internationally.

The Career Services team organizes numerous recruitment events and puts you in direct contact with your future employer(s):

NETWORKING +500 PROFESSIONAL MEETINGS

Company presentations, business conferences, recruitment sessions, workshops, master classes and internationally-themed weeks.

Recruitment Fairs 

Talent Days 

This recruitment fair brings together around hundred companies. You will establish contacts with companies from all sectors of activity, such as: Air Liquide, Amazon, Bouygues, Carrefour, Ekimetrics, Groupe Casino, Henkel, L’Oréal, LVMH, Metro, Orange, Saint-Gobain, Le Groupe TF1, Unibail-Rodamco-Westfield, Unilever, Vinci, etc.

Consulting Fair 

During this recruitment fair you will establish exceptional contacts with consulting firms such as: Accenture, Accuracy, Bain & Company, BearingPoint, BCG, Capgemini Invent, KPMG, Mazars, McKinsey & Company, Roland Berger, Wavestone, etc.

Start-up & Innovative Companies Fair

This fair brings together start-ups for a pitch and speed recruiting day 

Finance Fair 

During this recruitment fair you will establish exceptional contacts with financial institutions such as: Ardian, AXA, BNP Paribas, Bpifrance, Candriam, Centerview Partners, Crédit Agricole CIB, Hines, Moody’s, ODDO BHF, Qonto, Rothschild & co, Société Générale, UBS, etc.

Law Fair

This specialized recruitment fair allows you to establish exceptional contacts with the largest law firms and the legal services of large companies.

When you join ESSEC Business School, you join a community.

You will discover the power of the ESSEC network.

ESSEC Alumni already has 62 000 graduates with diverse profiles dispersed in all corners of the world. 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 the lifetime membership, that ESSEC has been the first French Business School with a global reach to put in place.

ESSEC Alumni is by your side at every stage of your career:

When you are a student, to guide you in finding professional opportunities through the network, exchanging with graduates, benefiting from various services to launch your start-up, and staying up to date with the latest news from the ESSEC community.

When you are a graduate, to support you throughout your professional life, to help you develop your network and exchange with your peers, to guide you in benefiting from services for your start-up, and to allow you to rediscover the atmosphere of your ESSEC years.

CentraleSupelec Alumni is a community of more than 45 000 graduates, spread over more than 80 countries. 

It stands alongside students and graduates throughout their life and offers them:

• Various events: conferences, workshops and networking events to get together and share the best of the CentraleSupélec network

• Advices on career choices and career paths

• Publications to keep the CentraleSupélec community up-to-date with the news

• Personalized support packages: professional project workshops, graduate-student mentoring during the course of their studies.
  
  Learn more about CentraleSupélec Alumni. 

Since its creation, ESSEC has always cultivated a spirit of entrepreneurship and innovation, which lies at the very core of its educational approach, research, and managerial practices.

ESSEC Ventures is a structure that supports ESSEC students with business projects. It consists of an incubator, a talent incubator, and a seed fund. It also organizes numerous events bringing together entrepreneurs and investors.

Learn more about ESSEC Ventures

ESSEC Antropia is a structure that supports ESSEC students with social enterprise projects so that social, environmental, and economic considerations can come together to create a better world.

Learn more about ESSEC Antropia

Since 2001, the CentraleSupélec incubator has welcomed, supported and accelerated start-ups with innovative and ambitious projects with a scientific or technological dimension.

Learn more about CentraleSupélec incubator