Take Action Towards Your Goals
The Solvay MBA is an investment.
Your future is the ROI.
The Career Advancement Programme
(CAP)
enables to CAPitalize on
your MBA degree.
-
Crystallize
the best of your past into
a profile for success
- Accelerate
achievement of your full potential
- Position
yourself in the future of the
global marketplace
Through interactive workshops and
coaching, the CAP team guides you
to eMBArk on a whole new
stage in your professional journey.
- Envision
your goal
- Market
yourself strategically
- Build
a professional network
- Attract
the best offers and opportunities
- Raise
your value in interviews and negotiations
- Keep
your career growing - for life
To ensure that
you are working toward the right job
with a clear goal and a strategy that
will work for you, the MBA offers
you the opportunity to take part in
a complete Career Advancement Programme.
The CAP Team, composed of six
members, will assist you in your
personal development throughout
the year by providing you with practical
guidance for approaching the job
market.
Seminars, coaching sessions, interview
trainings, networking events and
visits by prospective employers
are scheduled from September through
June.
What Is Career Advancement?
- Staying in the same career but moving to a better position, a better company, or a new location
- Changing sector in which you work eg private practice to employed, employed to entrepreneurial
- Changing career to a new area of expertise eg from technical to management, from banking to marketing, from real estate to banking
- Changing profession and lifestyle
Rationale
- The MBA reputation and value depends in part on career successes of its graduates
- The MBA is used to switch career tracks and ‘reposition’ for the job market
- Need to keep pace with the current international job market
- Effective career and placement service is required for accreditations and rankings
- Our internal strategic goal: ‘80 per cent candidates have suitable job offer within 6 months of graduating and are satisfied and succeeding after one year in their jobs’
CAP Structure
CAP is structured in two parts to meet the needs of candidates, employers and the MBA Corporate Council.
- Part 1: Producing the CV Book (mandatory)
- Part 2: Career Advancement Programme (strongly recommended, once enrolled participants need to fulfill requirements)
CAP Programme outline
3-hours seminars:
- Talent-Assessment
- Result-Driven CV
- Profiles & Biosketches
- Job Objectives
- Networking and Alumni Match
- Job Search Techniques
- Interviewing Skills
3-hour Peer-review / Coaching Sessions (small groups of 4):
- CARs, Skills and Motivators
- CV Review
- Networking
- Interview Practices
Optional Seminars and Coaching:
- Inner-Vision and Self-Concept Seminar
- Career Goals Seminar
- Contract & Salary Negotiations Seminar
- Job Objectives Coaching
- Inner-Vision Individual Coaching
- Career Goals Individual Coaching
- Mock Interviews with Professionals
- Professional Alumni Dialogues
Guest Seminars (subject to change according to availability of guests)
- Business Voice Series
- Presentation Skills
- Cracking the Case Interview
- Working in Belgium as a Non EU National
Career Services Open to All Candidates
- Presentations from employers, recruiters and HR services
- Alumni database (the Directory on MYSBS)
- Job announcements – publicized on MYSBS
- Access to career partners' services
- Information and resources held in CAP office and library
- Salary and job survey
CAP
Team
- Kay Lombardo , CAP Manager
- Bob Ward, Adjunct Professor and Trainer
Contractual coaches and trainers:
- Pascal Ledouble
- Paul Arinaga
- Damien Colmant
- Ruth Friedman
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