Careers Overview: Students

This resource has been developed to support your career development and to provide constructive advice and information to help you plan and implement your job search strategies during your time on the MBA programme, whether your ultimate goal is to undertake a career change or return to a previous sector at a higher level. Our team can even help those who wish to start their own business.

The following highlights the range of services offered to students:

• Individual appointments to discuss any careers-related issues such as future career direction and job search strategies
• Information on companies and job sectors
• Events focusing on particular areas, such as consultancy, entrepreneurialism, strategy
• Workshops on various topics such as CV (resume) construction, networking and interview techniques
• Widespread distribution of CVs through our Graduate Profile book, sent out to hundreds of recruiters
• Careers intranet service featuring current vacancies and more
• Recruitment events such as Managers 2 Recruit and Top Asia Managers
• Membership of the Carnet network featuring 12 international, accredited (AMBA, EQUIS, AACSB) business schools providing a platform for sharing job opportunities within a select group
• Self assessment tools such as Career leader, developed by specialists at Harvard University and used widely in US and UK business schools

We encourage students to be proactive in their job search and to start planning their future career as early in the MBA year as possible. To get optimum results from careers support, students are advised to attend as many organised events as possible and to make the most of the ongoing careers support throughout the year.

After graduation, we find most of our students are happily settled in their new career within six months. In your new roles, we hope you will go on to be among the project providers and recruiters of future MBA students.

The FAQ's provide further information for prospective students.

For further information, please contact careers@gsb.strath.ac.uk