In this post, Margherita Guerra (MBA Class of 2021) reflects on her first year and explains how coaching from our CDC team supported her learning journey in the MBA. Can you please tell us more about yourself? I can’t say I grew up aware of it, but I did grow up in a multicultural family….
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Career Advice in Times of Crisis, Part V: How to network effectively
Among all the previous tips from our speakers in the Career Advice in Times of Crisis series, the most frequently shared was the importance of networking in career management and job search. Networks matter more than ever, it is a confirmed fact that most of the hiring is done through referrals and commonly accepted that…
Career Advice in Times of Crisis, Part IV: The importance of being happy
During the last session of our series “Career Advice in Times of Crisis”, David Tomas, co-founder and CEO of the digital marketing agency Cyberclick shared his own experience on how happiness is key to achieving goals. David shared his views as a CEO of a company and how he learned the importance of creating a…
Career Advice in Times of Crisis, Part III: Acknowledge, Focus, Act
In our third session of this series, IESE alumni José Manuel Sánchez, Abhishek Mohan, Iris Hinterberger and Patricia Tanaka shared with IESE MBA students their experience of managing their careers through the 2008-09 financial crisis. When the panel started and I heard Iris say “it was the worst period of [her] life, it was unbelievably…
Career Advice in Times of Crisis, Part II: Be flexible and be smart, use data
During the second session of the “Career Advice in Times of Crisis”, IESE MBA-08 Alumni Jessica Smith (Senior Manager, Global Talent Intelligence, Amazon) shared her views on how to tackle the job search under difficult circumstances such as the one we are facing now. The session was particularly stimulating, Jessica gave the students not only…