2. Career Management Center
Dream Job
Milestone 1 (Exploration)
Self-assessment: access to and feedback on the Career Leader online tool, workshops with HR experts, individual counselling
Exploring career paths: drafting your personal career project and attending workshops with HEC Alumni and outside consultants, individual career counselling ,
club activities (practice interviews, workshops on specific professions, company treks etc)
Milestone 2 (Specification)
Tools & techniques to develop a successful job search strategy: CV writing sessions & workshops, 2-day seminar with leading
experts on job search and career design, interview practice with HEC alumni and outside consultants, etc.
Milestone 3 (Implementation)
Making it happen: interview workshops, career fairs…
Career guidance: advice on visa issues and working papers, how to negotiate salary, networking, market trends
and individual coaching
Milestone 4 (Crystallisation)
Making decisions: recruitment presentations, interviews
Core 1
Core 2
Core 1
PP1
PP2
Know yourself
Know the market
Match yourself and the market
3. Exploration and Specification
MILESTONE 1 Core 1-2
– Exploration: Self-assessment and exploring career paths.
• Introduction to Career Services
• Career Leader online assessment tool
• Overview of career planning in Human Resources course
• Coaching – the “three-step” plan
• Job fairs and company presentations for exploration/research
– MBA Career Day, International Finance Forum and Consulting
Forum
4. Milestone 1 - Exploration
• Self-assessment and exploring career paths
– CareerLeader
– Plot Your Career Path
– The three-step plan
• 1. Self-assessment and CareerLeader feedback
• 2. Function and sector focus – general info sessions
and one-on-one sessions with Corporate Relations
Team
• 3. Debrief / follow-up session
5. Milestone 2 - Specification
MILESTONE 2 Core 1-2
– Specification: tools and techniques to develop a successful job
search strategy.
• Seminar with Daniel Porot, expert on job search and career design:
– Day 1 : self assessment, targeting, networking
– Day 2 : Cover letters, interviews, negotiations
• Workshops with alumni and consultants to help define your career objectives
and strategy
– CV-writing: guidance sessions and workshops
– Sessions on Plotting Your Career Path and Networking
– “Careers in…” sessions
– Interview Skills cycle
• Information sessions by leading experts in their fields, organised by CMC and
clubs
6. CareerLeader
• Core philosophy
– “We strongly believe that interests, not skills, should be
the foundation of people’s careers. People make poor
career choices for lots of reasons, but one of the most
common is making a career choice (solely) because you’re
good at something, regardless of how interested you are in
the work. Of course your skill level has to exceed some
minimum level to be competent at anything, but we
believe that the combination of your interests, work
reward values and your abilities are the ‘hidden nugget’
that is often overlooked in setting your career course”
7. CareerLeader
• Three parts:
– Part 1 – Your Interests
– Part 2 – Combining your Work Reward Values and
Abilities with your Interests
– Part 3 – Navigating corporate culture and avoiding
career breakdowns
8. CareerLeader
• 3 most common recruiting errors
– Recruiters focus on abilities
– Students focus on rewards
– Neither focuses on interests
• Why is this important when starting your MBA:
– If you’re making a career switch, and don’t like what it is you plan to
do, your chances of making it are slim, and even if you do …
– Peer pressure
• BCII – Business Career Interest Inventory
9. BCII – parameters 1-4
• Application of Technology
• The general use of technology to accomplish business objectives
• Creative Production
• Business roles that require pure creativity: creating an idea, product
or strategy where none existed before
• Theory Development/Conceptual Thinking
• Activities involving broadly conceptual approaches to business
problems
• Quantitative Analysis
• Business problem-solving that relies on mathematical analysis
10. BCII – parameters 5-8
• Influence Through Language and Ideas
• Exercising influence through skillful use of written and spoken
language
• Enterprise Control
• Having ultimate strategic and decision-making authority for
complete operations
• Managing People and Relationships
• Working directly and consistently with groups of people in the roles
of manager, director or supervisor
• Counseling and Mentoring
• Developing relationships as an integral part of business work.
Examples: coaching, training and mentoring, customer relations
11. Interests – strong indicators
• Application of technology
– Information systems management
– Management in engineering and science
– Product / Operations management (also with ‘Managing people’)
– R&D / new product development (also with ‘Theory development’)
• Creative production
– Advertising
– Marketing (also with ‘Influencing’)
– PR and Corporate Communications
– Internet new media / web design
12. Interests – strong indicators
• Theory development/conceptual thinking
– Management consulting
– R&D / new product development (also with ‘Enterprise
control’)
• Quantitative analysis
– Accounting
– Commercial banking
– Finance in corporate settings
– Investment banking / private equities (also with ‘Enterprise
control’)
– Investment management
13. Interests – strong indicators
• Influence through language and ideas
– Financial planning / stock brokerage
– Internet business development and marketing (also
with ‘Enterprise control’)
– Management in non-profits (also with ‘Counseling
and Mentoring’)
– Marketing (also with ‘Creative production’)
– Sales and sales management
14. Interests – strong indicators
• Enterprise control
– Entrepreneurship
– General Management (also with ‘Managing people and
relationships)
– Internet business development and marketing (also with
‘Influencing’)
– Institutional securities sales
– Investment banking / private equities (also with
‘Quantitative analysis’)
– Venture capital (also with ‘Influence’)
15. Interests – strong indicators
• Managing people and relationships
– General Management (also with ‘Enterprise
control’)
– Production/Operations management
• Counseling/mentoring
– Corporate Training and Organisational
Development
– Human Resource Management
– Managing in non-profits (also with ‘Influencing’)
16. Some interest combinations
• Enterprise control / managing people and relationships –
‘management’
• Enterprise control / quantitative analysis – banking, deals etc.
• Enterprise control / influence through language and ideas - influence-
oriented leader
• Managing People / Application of Technology – ‘Engineer who becomes
a manager’
• Enterprise Control / Creative Production – ‘Combines need for creativity
with desire to “own a process”
• Managing People / Counseling and Mentoring - “People-oriented”
manager
• Counseling and Mentoring / Influencing through Language and Ideas -
“The communicator”: enjoys building networks and alliances
17. CareerLeader
• MPRP – Management and Personal Reward
Values
• MPAP: Management and Professional Abilities
Profile
– Analytical Problem Solving
– Taking Initiative
– Interpersonal Effectiveness
18. CareerLeader
• Website facilities
– Information on each career measured, and why you came up (or
didn’t) as a high match
– Informative ‘sketches’ on a variety of issues
– Tips on assessing an organisation’s culture
– Other aspects of culture to consider
– Tips on interviewing
– Advice on how to strengthen your weaknesses
– Information about common career ‘Achilles’ heels’
– A way to compare your interests with those of successful people in a
variety of careers
– Advice on how to choose an industry
19. CareerLeader
• Access:
Log in - URL: http://www.careerleader.com/cf/univ/hec.html
Username: hec
Password: east
Servers are case sensitive.
You will be prompted for first and last names. You will then be
brought to a registration screen which will ask you to register an
email address and password. Once you have done this you will be
able to proceed to taking the tests.
Help either through CMC or through help@careerleader.com
20. Other tools
• What Color is Your Parachute
• Career Anchors
• Resources through Intranet
22. CMC Coaching Outlook
Job is not only a job
• Sector +
• Function +
• Location
Business professional is
not only a business
professional
• Experience +
• Skills +
• Culture
