Manchester Business School (MBS) Launches
Global Career Service for Part-time MBA Students
Manchester Business School (MBS) has announced the launch of a new Global Careers Service (GCS) for its current 3000 MBA students in over 100 countries around the world.
The global launch event took place in Shanghai, where MBS has its China Centre and which coordinates 3-cohort Global MBA students across the region. The new global careers service for students offers a customised web 2.0 portal, face-to-face workshops and coaching to help face the challenge of a tough job market. The GCS was launched in Shanghai at a presentation and workshop held for MBS MBA students, MBS alumni and for regional corporate HR professionals, with the support of recruitment specialists.
Previously, MBS had provided careers support only for its full time MBA students; the new Global Careers Service is being launched in response to interest from part-time students and in the face of an increasingly tough recruitment market. The service will be available to all MBA students from enrolment until 12 months after graduation.
The School has nine international executive centres worldwide and the new Global Careers Service will be rolled out across them all before the end of 2010.
The GCS takes a blended approach in offering students access to a comprehensive and customised web 2.0 portal of resources, psychometrics, databases, webinars and jobs. Workshops are delivered through the School's international executive centres, with delivery through expert corporate partners based locally to each centre.
Alison Edmonds, Head of the Global Careers Service at Manchester Business School said:
"The MBA qualification is internationally recognised and still sought after in business. MBA students need help understanding their unique value proposition, and to market to, and negotiate with, employers. They need support in understanding job markets and targeting, in order to find local and international career paths."
According to Alison Edmonds, MBA students need specialist skills to navigate a tough market, where networking and the hidden job market are more crucial than ever. "There is always a demand for business talent but with the number of senior openings shrinking, competition between MBAs is tough. This new service is a career management programme that strongly supports our students in achieving their international career goals and salary expectations. It has been designed around their needs and their specific geographical locations. We know already from our full-time programme that access to such a diverse talent pool is valued enormously by employers. The new service is truly global and all jobs are available to all students, no matter what their location. We anticipate that the UAE and China job markets will hold greatest interest from our students generally."
Sherry Fu, Director China Centre, added: “ Many of our students want the MBA to help them meet their career ambitions and a world class business school must provide a service that supports this key motivator, as an added value service. We’ve designed different access to students who are self-funded and company sponsored to meet individual and cooperates’ needs. The GCS shows MBS’s commitment to our students and alumni around the world. “
Manchester Business School is ranked as one of the top 50 business schools in the world, according to the annual Financial Times survey conducted in January 2010.
