MBA Careers Schedule Toolbox & Module A 2010-11

Friday 3rd September CORE CLASS - Career Services / AQR Launch event

9:30am – 12:30pm Cohort 1

1:30pm – 4:30pm Cohort 2

MAL 152

These highly interactive workshops hosted by Career Services and AQR are designed to start your thinking about how you can

make the most of your time on the MBA and develop a set of skills and experiences that will maximise your future opportunities.

Based on the AQR Mental Toughness test you will have the chance to explore this concept further as well as build bonds with

your team.

Judith Krichefski

Peter Wortley

Friday 10th September ELECTIVE - Prevue for Careers & MTQ48 Feedback Sessions

9:00am – 10:00am

3:00pm – 4:00pm

CLO G02

These sessions provide the opportunity to understand and interpret your assessment results in more detail and discuss issues

arising in a small group format. Sessions are available on Friday 10th

and Monday 13th

September.

Monday 13th September ELECTIVE - Prevue for Careers & MTQ48 Feedback Sessions

With a combination of executive coaching and mentoring and over 25 years’ experience, Judith has

empowered over 1,500 senior management teams to increase their business efficiency and profitability. In

all areas - from strategy and planning, to marketing and operations, she helps individuals to get the best

from their workforce by introducing a "can-do" culture to achieve long-term business objectives in the most

effective way.

Peter is an experienced Managing Director and Project Manager developing a career in business support.

Throughout his career, Peter has been involved in leading, developing and coaching senior teams in the UK

manufacturing sector, learning, adapting and applying best practice. Passionate about the development of

others and with hands on experience of the application of theory in industry, Peter is able to present and

coach a team to adopt and apply the subject matter in any environment.

9:00am – 10:00am

3:00pm – 4:00pm

MAL 540

These sessions provide the opportunity to understand and interpret your assessment results in more detail and discuss issues

arising in a small group format. Sessions are available on Friday 10th

and Monday 13th

September.

Thursday 30th September CORE CLASS - CV & Cover Letter Workshops

1:00pm – 3:00pm

3:00pm – 5:00pm

MAL B36 / 252 / 253

These small group workshops (maximum 25 students per class) focus on producing career marketing materials that stand out

and highlight your skills in achievements in a way that is meaningful to your chosen employer. Themed around different topics

you are encouraged to attend the class best suited to you:

1:00pm – 3:00pm MAL B36 – Principles of an Achievement Driven CV and Cover Letter (for those who have little experience of

CV writing or don’t have clear plans)

1:00pm – 3:00pm MAL 252 – CVs for Career Changers

3:00pm – 5:00pm MAL B36 – Leadership CVs (for those taking a step up in their current career)

3:00pm – 5:00pm MAL 253 – Advanced CV Principles (exploring formats and ideas to make your CV stand out from the crowd for

those looking to add extra oomph!)

Thursday 7th

October CORE CLASS - Communicating with Impact (part 1)

1:30pm – 4:30pm

MAL B36

Executives who successfully master their ability to communicate gain a decisive edge in modern business. You may be at

interview, presenting to clients, or seeking to impress the executive board. Either way, your personal impact can make the

difference between success – and failure. The question is: which will it be?

The 2010-11 Communication Seminars will provide you with tools and insights to help give you that decisive edge. Working with

championship-winning speaker, Simon Bucknall, you will pick up practical tips and techniques used by some of the world’s most

successful professional speakers and communication professionals.

In this first session, you will come away with skills enabling you to:

� Project confidence when presenting, even if you don’t feel it

� Feel more comfortable presenting without notes

� Speak off-the-cuff with greater clarity and conviction

� Deploy a killer 30 second ‘Elevator Pitch’

� Get your listener’s attention in networking situations

� Add impact to your existing anecdotes and case studies

� Be more engaging in Q&A situations

Simon Bucknall An award-winning speaker and trainer, Simon is the youngest person ever to win back-to-back GB & All

Ireland Public Speaking titles. He is also the last person in the world you should ever consult for advice on

DIY. Today, drawing on a broad-based career background spanning corporate executive search, politics and

consumer brand strategy & innovation, Simon helps professional people maximise their personal impact – as

communicators and as leaders. His workshops and presentations have empowered audiences in the USA, the

United Arab Emirates, India, Pakistan, Finland, Denmark, and across UK and Ireland.

Thursday 7th October EXECUTIVE SPEAKER – Michel Hofman, MD, European Head of Systems Development , RABOBANK

6:00pm – 8:00pm

Venue TBC

Michel Hofman

Friday 15th October ELECTIVE - Pitch Yourself

2:00pm – 4:00pm

MAL B36

Using his considerable success in the world of advertising and marketing, Bill Faust has created a unique concept and toolkit to

put marketing principles to work for your career. The "Career DNA Bank" is a tool for life that allows you to identify, evidence

and authenticate your Transferable Assets. An essential part of understanding you and what it is you have to offer to a potential

or your current employer. To use an old adage People buy People, therefore it is essential to understand what your assets (the

people) have to offer and how this manifests itself as themselves and working as a team.

To help do this "The Career DNA Bank" and the "Company DNA Bank" are important tools for any business wanting to move

forward be it into new verticals or excel in their current markets.

In this session and the follow up one to one work, Bill offers an alternative to the traditional CV and career marketing approach

in a lively and fun format – if you’re looking for something different to stand out from the rest this elective is a must-attend.

Bill Faust

Thursday 21st October ELECTIVE - Functional Awareness Workshop - Consulting

In this role, Michel’s responsibilities include Front Office IT for the Global Financial Markets global business

line and the current and future application landscape across Europe (except the Netherlands). The role is

based in London in Rabobank’s European Head office. Michel has previously worked in Rabobank’s internet

Banking division and has an extensive background in Knowledge Management both in the commercial and

academic world.

2:00pm – 4:00pm

MAL B36

Don Leslie

Thursday 4th

November ELECTIVE - Functional Awareness Workshop – Renewable and Clean Careers

10am – 5pm

MAL B36

Clean Careers are an increasingly popular choice for MBA graduates. The world is facing two major challenges; a gloomy post-

recession period and ecological crisis. But these challenges are interlinked and bring about opportunities. In the US, The Apollo

Institute estimates that every $1million invested in energy efficiency projects creates 21.5 jobs (compared to 11.5 in new natural

gas generation). In Germany, $5.2 billion of public subsidy leveraging private investment led to the energy efficiency retrofitting

of 340,000 apartments, creating or saving 140,000 jobs. Here in the UK, The Environmental Change Institute estimates that a

£3.5-6.5 billion a year spent on energy efficiency retrofitting of the UK housing stock would create as many as 75,000 jobs. Over

the course of the day, Laura-Jane Silverman, Director of Trinity Green Consultancy will provide a detailed market overview to

help you understand where your opportunities are, then through a series of one to one and small group meetings will help you

create a tailored strategy for your Clean Career search.

Laura-Jane Silverman

Thursday 4th November EXECUTIVE SPEAKER – Christian Hernandez Gallardo, Head of International Business Development, FACEBOOK

Don Leslie is a Heriot-Watt graduate who worked for Deloitte in Johannesburg, Edinburgh and London

before moving into recruitment in the early 1980s. He recruited his first management consultant -

ironically, for Deloitte - in 1983 and has specialised in this area of the market since then. Within the

management consultancy team he works on recruitment for international development consultancies,

defence consultancies, and other areas of public sector consultancy. He also looks after team moves. Don

is an REC prizewinner, a former President of AIESEC, one of the founder-directors of BLT and first to the

office kitchen when chocolate biscuits are on offer.

Laura-Jane graduated from Trinity College, Cambridge in 2004 with a Masters Degree in Modern and

Medieval Languages. She began her career in the television industry, first as a presenter and later as a

Director of Business Development for one of the top UK Post Production Companies. In 2006 Laura-Jane

was headhunted into a financial recruitment role in the City where she built a desk in Corporate and

Project Finance. It was in this role that she developed her passion for the renewable energy arena and 2

years ago set up her own niche recruitment company specialising in the green sector. She is a frequent

attendee at global renewable energy conferences, exhibitions, and networking events and has led

numerous workshops at the top European Business Schools. As a Director of Trinity Green, Laura-Jane is

responsible for all European operations and will be assisting in the setup of a US office in 2010.

6:00pm – 8:00pm

Venue TBC

Monday 8th

November EXECUTIVE SPEAKER – Marcus East, Director, COMIC RELIEF

6:00pm – 8:00pm

Venue TBC

Marcus East

Thursday 11th November ELECTIVE - Pitch Yourself – follow up

10:00am – 12:00pm

MAL B35

Make the most of this opportunity to follow up with Bill Faust on the ideas and concepts introduced in the Pitch Yourself elective

on 15th

October. Bill will offer the opportunity to gain his and your colleagues feedback, answer detailed questions and really

help you tell your story.

Monday 29th

November ELECTIVE - Networking using LinkedIn

9:30am – 12:00pm

12:30pm – 3:00pm

3:30pm – 5:00pm

Online networking and social media have opened up a whole new world of opportunities for finding business and career

opportunities – but how do you make sure you are making the most of them? We all know people on LinkedIn, but how do you

make it work hard for you? In this series of seminars (repeated on Tuesday 30th November), Will Kintish will provide invaluable

hints and tips to make sure that your online presence is the best it can be.

9:30am – 12:00pm Beginners - This workshop is for people who have decided to join LinkedIn but know nothing about it or for

As Head of International Business Development, Christian is tasked with increasing the use and

engagement of the Facebook platform across international markets through the establishment of

partnerships with media firms, technology companies, innovative start-ups and leading brands.

Christian’s previous experience includes Google and Microsoft and he holds an MBA in

Entrepreneurship from Wharton Business School.

Christian Hernandez Gallardo

Marcus is a technologist and professional manager with over 16 years experience of working in the

Information Technology & New Media sectors.

He has two degrees: a bachelor’s with honours in Management & Information Technology from London

Guildhall and a master’s in Social Enterprise from the University of Cambridge. I am also member of the

Chartered Management Institute.

He started his career with IBM where he spent six years honing his sales and professional business skills,

before joining Omnicom’s agency.com where he spent two years learning about the importance of user

experience, and further developed his management skills. Since then, he has been an executive for a number

of companies, and today he is Chief Technologist at Comic Relief, one of the world’s leading charities.

Venue TBC those who are registered and have hardly started using it.

12:30pm – 3:00pm Intermediate - People, who are registered, accept invitations, rarely use it and feel they need to understand

all the main features.

3:30pm – 5:00pm Advanced - This session is for people who use the basic functions but feel they need to get into the ‘nooks and

crannies of LinkedIn.

Will Kintish

Tuesday 30

th November ELECTIVE - Networking using LinkedIn

9:30am – 12:00pm

12:30pm – 3:00pm

3:30pm – 5:00pm

Venue TBC

A repeat of Monday’s sessions

Thursday 2nd

December ELECTIVE - Induction to Finance

2:00pm – 5:00pm

MAL B36

In this highly informative and interactive session, Roger Howgego draws on his extensive experience in the global investment

banking industry to help you navigate structure, functions and roles, prepare for applications and interviews and help you

differentiate yourself from the competition.

Roger Howgego

Thursday 2nd December EXECUTIVE SPEAKER - Robyn Scott, Co-founder & Director, ONELEAP

6:00pm – 8:00pm Robyn Scott

Will Kintish was a practicing accountant for nearly 30 years. During most of those years selling, marketing

and business development generally were not activities associated with his profession. It is only now, in

today’s modern and competitive world are the professionals expected, not only to be great technicians but

to be able to help bring business in. This is often uncomfortable for most people. In the last 10 years since

leaving the profession he has presented to over 55,000 professionals and business people across Europe.

Roger Howgego has close to 30 years in the Investment Banking Industry based in Europe.

He left Lehman Brothers in 2000 as a Managing Director in the Fixed Income Business responsible for

European Government Sales Globally and Fixed Income Research for Europe. Latterly he was responsible

for the campus recruitment function at Analyst and Associate level for the European businesses. Roger

now specialises in Financial Services career coaching in all aspects of the selection process and action

learning consulting at some of the Citys largest banks.

Co-founder of OneLeap, and an established social entrepreneur, Robyn also has varied business and media

experience. She is chair and co-founder of Mothers for All, which teaches entrepreneurship skills to AIDS

orphan caregivers, ambassador for the Access to Medicine Index and co-founder of stirrlondon. She has

written an acclaimed book, and worked in energy and pharma. A Gates Cambridge Scholar, she has a BSc

Bioinformatics and an MPhil Bioscience Enterprise, Distinction.

Thursday 9

th December EXECUTIVE SPEAKER - Smita Mathur, Senior Vice President Quality Engagement Executive, Global Business Solutions

Global Corporate & Investment Banking, BANK OF AMERICA MERRILL LYNCH

6:00pm – 8:00pm Smita Mathur