If you’re on the hunt for a job you can be happy at for the long term, pay attention to these key factors. You might find yourself catching–and keeping–a truly satisfying job.
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Archive for October/2011
Oct
Putting Happiness First In Your Job Search
Written on October 29, 2011 by CMC Team in News watch
Oct
MBA / LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMS
Written on October 28, 2011 by CMC Team in News watch, Resources
IE’s collaboration with MBA-Exchange gives you free access to the online directory of MBA / Leadership Development Programs. We encourage you to explore the programs that match your profile and start applying.
This can be a good option for career changers as well. Find out more
Oct
Interview with Amber Wigmore, Director of Career Advising in the IE Career Management Center
Written on October 28, 2011 by CMC Team in In the spotlight
1. Introduce yourself and your role at IE
Amber Wigmore Alvarez – Director of Career Advising in the IE Career Management Center
My name is Amber Wigmore Alvarez and I’m the Director of Career Advising in the IE Career Management Center. My connection to the IE goes back to 1999, when I came to Instituto de Empresa to pursue the International MBA program. Now I’m grateful for the opportunity to give back to IE students and alumni in a professional capacity. In addition to my Career Advising role, I represent IE in career services events and conferences worldwide, sharing best practices with my counterparts at other top business schools and ensuring that our career service offering is a reference in the sector.
2. How do you and your department help students find the job that’s right for them both before and after graduation?
The mission of the Advising team and the Careers Management Center as a whole is to “guide students and alumni to realize their unique career vision and become strategic career managers”. We do this by assigning students to a dedicated Career Advisor, based upon their program and/or section. The Advisors guide and orient students, providing them with access to a wide array of tools and resources to be used in the pursuit of their career aspirations.
3. What are the top mistakes job seekers make?
These days the top mistakes job seekers make are related to the online space. Bear in mind that 80% of employers will look you up on LinkedIn before contacting you. Therefore, it is critical that your online presence is impeccable. Candidates frequently lack a well-defined brand across platforms. It is important to identify your values and your target company’s top 2 problems and then align all messages with that. Along the same lines, many candidates create a LinkedIn profile simply to have one. This is not enough. Your LinkedIn profile needs to be absolutely polished. Ensure that your profile photograph is professional and welcoming for recruiters.
4. What are the key trends you see developing around the Professional Summary or elevator pitch?
Whether we are talking about an elevator pitch to be delivered in person or a Professional Summary on a CV for example, they should respond to the following:
- Who are you?
- What do you do?
- Why are you the best?
- What do you want?
Be prepared to deliver an elevator pitch in 20-30 seconds or differentiate yourself in 5 lines or less. The key is to set yourself apart from the rest. Consider the statistic that only 33% of jobs actually make it to a job board (the rest are part of the “hidden market”) and when they do, you’re competing against 300 other candidates for 1 vacancy.
5. What tips would you give students in order to succeed on their career path?
If I could provide students across all of our programs with 5 tips, they would be the following:
- The clock is ticking, so start now! Don’t wait until you are in the midst of your program and busy with academic coursework. You need to have careers on your mind from day 1!
- Have and maintain a positive and proactive attitude throughout your job search and during selection processes. If you don’t, you will likely project any negativity to recruiters and contacts that you make while networking.
- Invest time in devising your career path strategy.
- Familiarize yourself with the IE Careers Management Center resources and those of the IE community on the whole. From day 1 on their programs, IE students are encouraged to participate in events with alumni and network, network, network!
- What you put into your job search strategy is what you will get out of it – it all depends on you!
Oct
How Recruiters Use Social Networks to Screen Candidates
Written on October 27, 2011 by CMC Team in News watch
Over the past few years, we’ve seen social media used in the job market in a number of ways — startups, small businesses and large corporations alike are diving into the socialverse to find top talent, and job seekers are likewise getting creative with social media.
Social media monitoring service Reppler recently surveyed more than 300 hiring professionals to determine when and how job recruiters are screening job candidates on different social networks.
Read more here
Oct
What Recruiters are looking for – IE Career Fair
Written on October 27, 2011 by CMC Team in In the spotlight, On-campus
Recruiters and HR Directives gives us tips about job hunting and talk about characteristics they believe make a successful professional…Would you add something to the list?
Oct
Nissan Aims to Cut CO2 20%, Up Efficiency 35%
Written on October 26, 2011 by CMC Team in News watch
Nissan Motor Co., Ltd. is aiming for a 20 percent per vehicle cut in its operational CO2 emissions by 2016, compared with 2005, under a six-year environmental plan unveiled today.
The Nissan Green Program 2016, the company’s third environmental mid-term plan, also calls for the company to become the world’s number one seller of zero-emission vehicles, selling 1.5 million such vehicles across the Renault-Nissan Alliance.
Read more here
Oct
2nd Swiss MBA Career Forum – November 25, 2011
Written on October 20, 2011 by CMC Team in Off-campus, Upcoming Career events
The Swiss MBA Career Forum connects graduates of the leading European and North American business schools with top-tier companies to explore career opportunities. The Swiss MBA Career Forum is Switzerland’s only career forum that brings together so many talented young professionals with an international education and professional background across a wide range of industries. The vast majority of graduates speak several languages and gained cross-cultural experience while working in an international setting. The Swiss MBA Career Forum has been successfully established in 2010.
See the program details here,
The participating companies here
and Resitration details here
Oct
10 Good Ways to ‘Tell Me About Yourself’
Written on October 20, 2011 by CMC Team in Others
The two essential elements behind the answers:
The medium is the message. The interviewer cares less about your answer to this question and more about the confidence, enthusiasm and passion with which you answer it.
The speed of the response is the response. The biggest mistake you could make is pausing, stalling or fumbling at the onset of your answer, thus demonstrating a lack of self-awareness and self-esteem.
Read the 10 good ways here
Oct
Participate in Vestas Winnovation 2012
Written on October 17, 2011 by CMC Team in In the spotlight, Off-campus
Vestas is challenging Master degree engineering students to come up with ideas that could solve some of our greatest challenges and impact our business on the energy market around the globe.
It’s a unique opportunity to learn more about Vestas, get practical experience working with some of the challenges Vestas is facing as an industry leader within modern energy, and create a great international career network both within Vestas but also to other engineering students all over the world.
The finalists will be flown to our Tech R&D centre in Aarhus Denmark to participate in the 2-day final in February 2012. Deadline to send your preliminary solution is 18th of November 2011.
Read more on vestas.com/winnovation
Oct
Philips en la Feria Internacional de Empleo de IE
Written on October 15, 2011 by CMC Team in In the spotlight, Video
Hablamos con las representantes de Philips durante la Feria de Empleo de IE, que tiene lugar cada año en octubre. Durante esa semana, facilitamos una zona en el campus para que compañías nacionales y extranjeras puedan contactar y reclutar a nuestros alumnos.
Haz clic aquí para ver el video
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