CAREER SERVICES
The performance of your Career department influences largely the satisfaction rate of current participants, the school decision of new participants and your position in rankings.
For participants
We can help optimizing the job searching of your participants with group training that could be followed with individual sessions as needed:
- Defining your job search strategy
- Building a CV that shows who You are
- Head Hunters: How to approach them and develop relationships?
- Alumni: how to network effectively?
- Salary negotiation
- The back-planning method of organizing your job search
- Making the most of On Campus recruiting
- Interview training (including elevator pitch)
- The realities and steps of a drastic career change
- Focus on Industry
- Handling a drastic career change
- First 100 days in a new job
For staff
Our unique approach includes a blend of training combined with group and individual coaching sessions. Examples of areas covered (non exhaustive):
- Techniques of Career Counselling and Advising
- Managing participants’ expectations during crisis times
- Developing and keeping a healthy stress level
- Managing time more efficiently (includes email management)
- Developing durable partnerships with recruiters
- Serving multiple programs ‘participants. Serving Alumni.
ADMISSIONS
It is not only about attracting more participants but the right ones for your programs, those that are in line with your positioning and will become great Alumni advocates.
For staff
Our unique approach includes a blend of training combined with group and individual coaching sessions. Examples of areas covered (non exhaustive):
- Defining your participants ‘recruitment strategy and your mix (media, fairs, direct mailing etc.)
- Competition analysis and establishing your positioning
- Processes: How much admin is needed? How much personalized attention do you give? How fast do you give answers?
- Developing and keeping a healthy stress level
- Managing time more efficiently (includes email management)
EXTERNAL RELATIONS/ALUMNI
The support of your Alumni community and industry partners is determinant to position yourself on the market, generate recommendations and funding’s.
For staff
Our unique approach includes a blend of training combined with group and individual coaching sessions. Examples of areas covered (non exhaustive):
- Analysis: who and where are your best supporters? How do they like to engage with you?
- Communication: How do you engage with Alumni/companies? How often? Return rate?
- Give and take: What do you offer to these partners? What do they offer you? Is the “give and take” balanced?
OPERATIONAL EFFECTIVENESS OF DEPARTMENTS
The above three teams, for example, are interrelated and often experiencing overlaps, communication issues etc. impacting your overall performance. Our services are totally tailored to your needs. Past assignments have included (non exhaustive):
- Diagnostic of services, identification of areas to be improved, recommendations
- Auditing team strength and weakness
- Defining department’s mission and communicating on expectations
- Creating and monitoring key performance indicators
- Improving satisfaction level of all stakeholders
- Improving process efficiencies
- Developing partnerships with other institutions
- Designing a new organization and defining new roles and responsibilities
EXECUTIVE COACHING
Within both MBA/EMBA and Executive programs, we provide group and individual coaching on the following topics (non exhaustive):
- Career transition: expatriation, moving up, moving laterally
- Professional repositioning
- Coaching skills for managers
- Managing multi-cultural teams
- Managing teams across distances
- Handling a drastic career change
- First 100 days in a new job
As ICF Professional Coaches, we agree to practice the ICF Professional Core Competencies and pledges accountability to the ICF Code of Ethics.