After two meetings with the Career Services yesterday it seems that your feedback on the article had an impact. It is not quite official yet but the following changes are planned for the coming days and weeks:
- An official statement of the Management
- Restructuring of the Career Services (apparently there will be a re-allocation of responsibilites)
- Implementation of clear processes and K.PERFORMANCE.Is beyond staff-student ratios based on the recommendations of a famous consultancy (not sure why a Business School spends money on a consultancy but…)
- Survey for Career Week
- Migration of discussion to Nexus to open up further “internal” dialogue
- Workshops with students on how to strengthen Career Services
- Renaming of Career Week to “Career Forum“
- More in-depth company briefings prior to campus visits
- Differentiating between company and recruitment presentation
- A stronger focus on developing company relationships with student clubs and academia
- Publication of a clear hierarchical structure incl. responsibility allocations (should be expanded across the school in my opinion)
- More transparency and new faster feedback policies
- Publication of recruitment/interview statistics
- and a few more…
Obviously not all of these are a result of the blog article and coincide with some changes that have been planned anyhow but it is a good development in any case.
These are all high aspirations and it is important that they are being implemented however most probably this will take some time. However I still hope and think that it is important that the outgoing students see the changes implemented before leaving in two months.
On the other side we still have to acknowledge that they always put in a lot of efforts into attracting companies to campus, organising the career week, etc. And you can’t honestly expect them to offer you placements. We do all need to be proactive ourselves. The crisis is bad for placements but that’s was already clear when we started, no?
In any case the latest discussions and feedback from us students have been heard. Let’s see and good job hunting!!
My ESADE MBA 