Instituto de Empresa Business School

Most people are often too busy to reflect on the type of professional they really want to be and focus instead on short-term objectives. Taking the time to reflect on your personal values and the sort of work-life balance that you desires is of tremendous importance to release your inner energy.

The Master in Marketing Management makes you stop during one entire year and do a thorough introspection, exploring functions and sectors through the classes, obtaining feedback from your teachers, peers, family, mentors and through self-assessment tests. Getting to know the kind of business person you want to be is as important as how you are going to become that business person.

The Master in Marketing Management will help you build up on your hard skills through a comprehensive understanding of business across functions and sectors, most importantly it helps develop specific soft skills highly valued by recruiters around the world. Both combine to build strong communication and interpersonal skills, adaptability, teamwork, diversity management, cross-cultural sensitivity, leadership, and time management skills which all contribute to making the IE graduate a much sought after and skilled professional.

The IE Alumni network, spanning over 85 countries, is a powerful resource to obtain feedback and mentoring on your career objectives, access to new business circles and investors, and introductions to recruiters in top companies worldwide.

IE Business School graduates are in great demand from some of the world's strongest multinationals, cutting edge start-ups, consulting firms and financial institutions as well as many NGO's and not-for-profit organizations. Over the last three decades, many of IE Business School's graduates have gone on to assume top positions in some of the world's most important corporations while others have established new enterprises, opened new markets and generated collective wealth in their communities.

We know that nobody is more interested in developing a successful career than students themselves. The Careers Management Center's mission is to expand on job opportunities for IE Business School students and alumni. The Center offers each student individual career planning sessions, as well as a variety of workshops on career management throughout the program. The Center acts as an active partner for all students as they map their career path.

We help train you to fully exploit your new skills; to rise to the challenges you will face in the labor market. We also provide you with any information you require on the different professional options open to you upon completion of your Master in Marketing Management program.

The Careers Management Center acts as an active partner as you map your career path, teaching you the skills needed to rise to the challenges you will face in the labor market and to achieve your future career goals that brought you to study at IE Business School. Secondly, the Center facilitates the job search of all students and alumni by providing access to a range of resources, and remains at your disposal for the rest of your professional life.

The Careers Management Center achieves this through the following:

• Individual career planning and coaching sessions with members of the Center.
• Seminars and workshops on career orientation, market research, effective interviewing, networking, CV & cover letters and salary negotiation, led by members of the Center and external specialists.
• An interactive web page and virtual library, providing access to a large number of online resources (career management books, self assessment tools, databases of companies, employment search guides, online media, useful links...). More specifically, the Careers Management Center offers premium access to many online resources such as The Vault, Workmaze, CareerLeader, Dun&Bradstreet... and privileged partnerships with many recruitment web sites.

The Careers Management Center offers companies, executive search firms, and headhunters an efficient recruitment service, tailored to their individual needs. Attracted by the quality and diversity of our students and graduates and by the flexibility of our services, a large number of recruiters look to IE Business School year after year in their search for top professionals. In 2005, more than 5,500 job offers for students and alumni were handled through the Careers Management Center's job board.

Furthermore, to maximize your contact with companies, the Careers Management Center runs the following events:

• Annual International Job Fair (in 2004 the IE Career Fair was the biggest Fair in Spain for students with over 100 companies and over 250 company representatives).
• On-campus corporate presentations and interviews.
• Round tables and special events.
• Distribution of the Master in Marketing Management yearbooks containing the resumes of the students to major international business organizations.

Training and Advisory Service

The Career Management Center helps students to develop the necessary skills required for successfully overcoming the challenges of today's job market.

As part of all our programs, students attend various seminars that look at areas that include:

• Writing and improving your CV
• Self-assessment
• Planning a career change
• Negotiating job offers
• Making professional contacts
• Preparing an interview
• Performing in assessment centers

We also offer information sessions on legal and work-related matters to all present and former students from outside the EU wishing to work in Spain, as well as at least one individual session with a member of the Careers Management Center.

Job Bank

To facilitate your job search, the Careers Management Center have created the IE Job Board, a password-protected web site where companies can advertise vacant positions exclusively to IE students and alumni.

Our job board is now one of the most popular and effective in Spain with over 10,000 regular users. It is made accessible to all students 3 months before graduation and remains open to IE alumni throughout their careers (Job Board Statistics*):

• Offers published on job board in 2005: 5,500.
• Interviews induced by job board in 2004: 2,100.
• Contracts originating through job board in 2004: 620.

*The numbers of interviews or concrete job offers extended through a job posting on the job board include only the processes that were reported by the students, alumni or corporate recruiters to the Careers Management Center. It is probable that the actual figure is higher due to the fact that the Careers Management Center is not always aware of all the interviews or contracts that took place following a job posting.

These statistics refer to the total amount of offers published by the Careers Management Center. These offers can be accessed by all the IE alumni and all the students that are currently in their last 3 months of studies, i.e. they are not exclusive to the Master in Management students.

In addition to the statistics of the job board it is worth mentioning that over 1,000 students and alumni visited the Careers Management Center in 2005 and received one-to-one counselling sessions on assessment of job offers, CV and cover letter, career choices, job search techniques and other career related areas.

IE Career Fair

Every year during the first week of October, IE is the venue for the Careers Fair, an event at which leading companies looking to take on qualified personnel and IE's students have an opportunity to make contact.

The Career Fair, covered by the media, is above all a place for making first contact and recruiting candidates with experience in a variety of sectors and functional areas and of huge professional potential. With over 100 companies in 2004, the IE Career Fair is now the leading fair for Masters students in Spain.

Club Support

The Careers Management Center supports students' clubs by fostering contact between companies and the student representatives of the clubs. If you want a specific company to be part of the events organized by the Consulting, Finance, Marketing, Eastern European clubs..., please do not hesitate to contact us.

Company Presentations

The Careers Management Center organizes presentations by leading firms, aimed at catering for the needs of both students and recruiters. Thus, students and firms can establish professional relations that actively promote mutual knowledge and understanding, and possibly the initiation of a selection process. The presentations are co-ordinated by the Careers Management Center. Students must register and present any documents that the companies might require (normally a CV).

CV Book

The Careers Management Center offers all students of the Master in Marketing Management the opportunity to add their CV to the online CV book. This online CV book is used by recruiters to search for candidates in terms of languages, experience, education and nationality. This is the preferred method of hiring of many companies. In the period of June-December we distribute yearbook to all our contacts in major international business organizations, including both recruiters and former alumni who want to disseminate the CV book in their organization.