Transform your career
Find your career path and transform your future
Whatever your career goals, the EDHEC Global MBA will help you accelerate or change your career through its innovative CareerSMART ® programme.
Your future is our priority
As the business world is evolving faster than ever, we’ll help you find your way that aligns with your passion, goals and skills.
EDHEC’s Global MBA is consistently ranked and recognised for opening new career opportunities. Throughout your MBA journey, you will be working on every aspect of your career development to prepare you for the future you choose.
EDHEC’s innovative MBA CareerSMART programme
CareerSMART, the ground-breaking career development programme that’s part of Lead360 is designed to give you maximum exposure to different industries and roles and develop the skills and insights you will need to evolve, transform and succeed.
From finetuning your ambitions, identifying where your strengths and unique selling points are and how to market yourself through to helping you gain new industry insights and opportunities to connect with some of the world’s leading brands, CareerSMART will help you to define, develop and progress your future.
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S Self-assessment |
Through individual career coaching sessions and group-based assessments, participants hone in on what their strengths, weaknesses, and goals are within their professional careers. |
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M Marketing Strategy |
EDHEC Global MBA Career Services work closely with participants to help them decide on a post-graduation projectory, and what strategy they must implement in order to achieve it. |
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A Analysis of Sector |
Participants gather up-to-date intel about the current job market they are most interested in and learn how to conduct an efficient job search, leveraging different online tools. |
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R Relationship Building |
Our Career Services assist participants in actively networking with other companies and MBA alumni, then follow up with them to make sure any opportunity leads to a meaningful professional situation. |
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T Targeted approach |
Students participate in job fairs, meet with our corporate partners, and when they do apply for a job, the EDHEC Global MBA Career Services guide them through updating their CVs, filling out application forms, and preparing for interviews. Some of our current corporate partners include:       |
Start your career change here
Evaluate your profile and have one of our career advisers get in touch to discuss your goals and ambitions.
Personalised career support, every step of the way
Ambitious career changes require support, and at the EDHEC Global MBA you’ll always have someone to turn to. Your ideas, interests and competencies will evolve as your knowledge and experience grow, so we make sure that you’re supported the entire length of the programme through our dedicated MBA CareerSMART team.
The career development programme helped immensely to land my post-MBA job: the preparation for job hunting (and finding) was excellent, particularly the mock interviews organised with alumni. Overall, the Global MBA gave me the necessary soft skills needed to thrive in a demanding professional environment as well as the essential technical skills to stay on top of the game.
Theodoros Stylianou
EDHEC Global MBA 2022
Experienced career coaches with diverse expertise
Our team of experienced, international career coaches has a deep understanding of the challenges faced by ambitious professionals. Each has an area of expertise such as entrepreneurship, finance, technology, consulting or marketing. You’ll have access to five coaching sessions with the expert that best fits your post-MBA ambitions.
Self-assessment tools
You’ll have free access to a range of self-assessment tools that you can use to better evaluate your skills and keep track of your progress throughout the programme. For a deeper understanding of your results, you can debrief with the Career Centre on request. Assessments include Emotional Intelligence, Reasoning, Leadership Skills and Personality.
Networking Events & Industry Insights
Throughout the MBA programme and beyond, you will have unique opportunities to build your network and gain access and insights to leading companies, industries and career opportunities including networking and recruitment events, our MBA Senior Speaker Series, MBA clubs, alumni events, hackathons, and industry treks.
Career Essentials
From helping you to create effectively plan your job search, optimising your CV & Linked In profile for maximum impact through to mock-interviews and interview advice, our dedicated MBA Careers team is here to help you plan, prepare and perfect.
Career coaching
Experienced career coaches with diverse expertise
Our team of experienced, international career coaches has a deep understanding of the challenges faced by ambitious professionals. Each has an area of expertise such as entrepreneurship, finance, technology, consulting or marketing. You’ll have access to five coaching sessions with the expert that best fits your post-MBA ambitions.
Self-assessment
Self-assessment tools
You’ll have free access to a range of self-assessment tools that you can use to better evaluate your skills and keep track of your progress throughout the programme. For a deeper understanding of your results, you can debrief with the Career Centre on request. Assessments include Emotional Intelligence, Reasoning, Leadership Skills and Personality.
Networking
Networking Events & Industry Insights
Throughout the MBA programme and beyond, you will have unique opportunities to build your network and gain access and insights to leading companies, industries and career opportunities including networking and recruitment events, our MBA Senior Speaker Series, MBA clubs, alumni events, hackathons, and industry treks.
Career Essentials
Career Essentials
From helping you to create effectively plan your job search, optimising your CV & Linked In profile for maximum impact through to mock-interviews and interview advice, our dedicated MBA Careers team is here to help you plan, prepare and perfect.
We help students to understand and believe that they’re not just generic products. When they can identify what they’re good at, what’s special about them and which sector they can add value to, they can start making an impact.
Spencer Hamilton
Global MBA Head of Careers and Corporate Services
Opening up new, exciting career opportunities
The EDHEC Global MBA is a great way of stepping onto the international employment scene, with the vast majority of graduates securing their first post-MBA position outside of their home country. Many graduates also change job sectors or roles as well as location with some doing all three, known as a triple-jump!
Where do our EDHEC MBA graduates go next?
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Inspiring career paths
To transform their careers, our MBA graduates leverage skills and opportunities acquired through their Global MBA programme to change jobs, industries and even regions or take the plunge into entrepreneurship.
Top recruiters for EDHEC Global MBA graduates
These are some of the companies that have hired our graduates in recent years.
Take your career to the next level
Find out how the EDHEC Global MBA can help you transform your career or evaluate your profile to speak to a career advisor for further information.
CareerSMART – our investment in you
At EDHEC we’ve been investing in improving our career services for a number of years, and our students tell us that it’s paying off. Find out more about CareerSMART from our programme director and members of our careers team.
FAQ
An MBA gives you the skills and international network to take your career to the next level. The EDHEC CareerSMART team is by your side every step of the way helping you analyse your strengths, define your career goals and put you in touch with potential future employers. Through your diverse cohort and an international alumni network, you will broaden your horizons and your job prospects. Find out how Adriana managed to land a job at Amazon and why Pranjali is now working for Zalando.
You’d rather run your own company? The EDHEC Global MBA offers an entrepreneurship track and has helped numerous graduates like Tingting Miao and Daniel Bernal Bachiller launch their own start-ups.
To change careers, you need to find out where you’d like your career to develop to. Are you looking to change sectors, job function, country or launch your own startup? During your MBA experience at EDHEC, the Careers Services team help you to find out what you expect from your future career and how to get there. At EDHEC, Global MBA students participate in job fairs, meet with our corporate partners, and when they do apply for a job, the EDHEC Global MBA Career Services guide them through updating their CVs, Linkedin profiles, filling out application forms, and preparing for interviews.
CareerSMART is EDHEC’s innovative career development programme incorporated into the Global MBA’s Lead360 part of the curriculum. CareerSmart is designed to give you maximum exposure to different industries and roles and develop the skills and insights you will need to evolve, transform and succeed.
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