Career development
Connecting with careers at the 2022 CPDI
By Maria Moragianis, Head of Career Development & Community Engagement, Highered. This year’s CPDI (Career Professionals Development Institute), graciously hosted by EADA Business School in Barcelona was the first in-person EFMD careers event since the Covid-19 outbreak and the energy was high among the 20 careers professionals participating. After two years of online connecting, it…
Read MoreRethinking faculty models for impactful schools and resilient careers
Wilfred Mijnhardt is the Policy Director for Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University and the Chair of the new EFMD Faculty Management Programme. Follow him on Twitter. Impact has landed in the missions and strategies of business schools and in the standards of accreditation agencies. Impact is core business, together with the creation of new…
Read MoreHiring Trends for Business School Graduates: 2021 Corporate Recruiters Survey
Nine in ten corporate recruiters expect the demand for business school graduates to increase or remain stable in the next five years, according to the 2021 Corporate Recruiters Survey. This annual GMAC survey provides vital data for employers and business schools in understanding trends and insights about hiring, salaries, and skills for MBA and business…
Read MoreReflections on the state of the career services industry in a post-COVID marketplace
The Career Professionals Development Institute (CPDI) was inaugurated in November 2019, following years of feedback from Career Services professionals from the EFMD Global network, as to the need to go deeper into the challenges of the industry. Since then, this program, which is jointly organised by Highered and EFMD, has endeavoured to equip talent professionals…
Read MoreEmotional skills are key to resilience in management
By Hugues Poissonniner, Professor of Strategy, Management and Purchasing at Grenoble Ecole de Management Fostering resilience during a crisis can be a game changer for managers and their team members. And the key to achieving this? Emotional skills offer a fundamental building block for managers to promote collaboration, resilience and well-being. Our emotions are an…
Read MoreEFMD Global Virtual Career Fairs by Highered
As we embark upon a new year, at Highered, we have been overwhelmed with feedback from our EFMD school members as to the challenging year that we have left behind. While the obvious situation and circumstances have been trying to say the least, we are motivated to continue implementing initiatives to support Career Services, employers…
Read MoreCorporate Recruiters Survey Shows Optimism for the Hiring of B-School Graduates
The global economic outlook reversed its course to pessimism and uncertainty in a matter of months due to COVID-19. This shift has also reset the demand and supply of talent at many levels. How has COVID-19 impacted the skill demand and hiring projections for MBA and Business Master’s graduates? The Graduate Management Admission Council™ (GMAC™)…
Read MoreInternships & Employment during Covid-19: How have Grenoble Ecole de Management supported their students?
By Mara Saviotti, International Communications Coordinator at Grenoble Ecole de Management Faced with a disrupted employment and internship market, Grenoble Ecole de Management (GEM) has deployed an array of services and initiatives for its students to support them in their job and internship searches. These include continuous surveys to monitor student employment, online recruitment events…
Read MoreThe EFMD Virtual Career Fair Series by Highered
COVID-19 has dramatically impacted higher education, forcing schools to adapt to online teaching in a matter of days. We have all witnessed how this virus is influencing our communities, our families and our way of life. While what we are facing is daunting, EFMD and Highered have mobilised forces and launched the EFMD Virtual Career…
Read MoreRecruitment in the cloud: EFMD Highered China Virtual Career Fair connects global Chinese-speaking talent and 50+ leading companies
The world is turning digital at an unprecedented pace in the current climate. Talent acquisition is no exception. Though campuses are quiet this Spring, talent find new venues to connect with recruiters – the EFMD Virtual Career Fair Series by Highered. The China Virtual Career Fair, which took place between March 24th and April 1st,…
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