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Global Skills Development Breaking into the International Job Market (2225.YR.014775.1)

Datos generales

Tipo:

OPT

Curso:

3

Periodo:

S semestre

Créditos ECTS:

3 ECTS

Profesorado:

Grupo Profesor Departamento Idioma
Year 3 Roque Adrada Sanchez-Lafuente Dirección de Personas y Organización ENG

Prerrequisitos

The Career Services team defines pedagogical objectives or "Learning
Outcomes?:
1. Recruitment Trends: You will be able to Integrate the dimensions learned
from different recruitment trends.
2. Skills Development: You will train and develop the necessary skills to
successfully overcome the selection process in Government & Social Entities, Consulting and Financial Services

Objetivos de aprendizaje de la asignatura

"Globalization and advancement in technology have changed the work environment
of today's organizations. The functioning of today's organizations demands skills
different from what were required earlier? (Mishra, Krishna, 2015)
You'll get an interactive learning experience within our session, where employability
skills are the backbone of your training.
Our facilitator and guest speakers are international experts working in several
locations worldwide. They will assess your strengths and skills and match them to
the employment organization's needs.

Contenidos

1. Navigating your Future: Authentic Dialogue About your Personal and Professional Success

What are the key components of the motivations? What drives your performance?
What motivates you in your life and professional purpose? Extrinsic and Intrinsic motivation. How are these ideas connected?

2. General Approach to the Sectors

This session aims to give you an overview over career opportunities in a certain sector. The esade career services sector experts will deep dive in the Government & Social Entities Sector, the Consulting Sector and the Financial Services Sector. In a structured way we will first discover the opportunities in each sector and therewith broaden your horizon on opportunities that you might not have considered yet for your future. To give you even better criteria and deep dive in each sector we will talk about the different characteristics of the possibilities and how a typical career path might look like. The sector experts will explain you how recruitment in their specific field works, including the right timing for your applications. This lecture will foster your self- reflection and give you food for thought on where you want to go professionally.

3. Communicating with Impact

This session aims to give you a real practice overview about the main training tips in communication skills.
- Focus of recruitment
- Elevator Pitch
- Assessment Center
- Online meetings and Fairs
- Body language

4. How to Maximize your Brand Name & Networking (Resume & Cover Letter)

During this session you will learn to stand out by showcasing your passion and unique selling points on your resume (CV) and cover letter, taking into account the recruiter perspective, in order to follow your preferred career journey within the impact environment (social entities, international organizations, impact investment, social consultancy¿).

5. Cross Culture Management

Although in recent years there has been a global shift towards countries looking inwards and this being reflected in the political base of many countries around the world, businesses have been taking significant steps towards acknowledging and understanding the positive impact of cultural differences and implementing strategies that improve the relationship between within companies and ultimately benefitting greatly from a shift towards cultural cognisance

6. Cracking Competency Based Interview

Behavioural or competency based interviews are used to show how you would demonstrate certain behaviours/skills in the workplace. You will be asked to give an example of a situation or task that led you to take a certain course of actio

7. Banking Assessment Center Simulation

Provides a comprehensive overview of methods for analyzing models and simulating risk for banking and financial systems

8. General Approach II

In this session we will go more into detail about a career in Government, International Organizations and social impact. The first step to pursue a career in this area is information, information is key. Having a deep knowledge about the different institutions network, most required profiles and selection processes will allow students to do their firsts steps right. We will do an overview of the different types of International Organizations and other entities of this sector network. European Institutions, United Nations system, other Multilateral Organizations, Development Banks, Government Institutions and other entities.

9. Building Strong Relationship in the Sector

Networking is also an extremely important asset for those students who wants to pursue a career in this area. In this session different representatives of different entities will be invited to talk about their day to day job. Students will have an approach on the daily work and also will have the chance to start their networking in this area. A part from networking this session have the objective to fill a gap that has been detected in students. It is difficult for them to focus their search as they don¿t really know about the daily work of certain organization. With this session we will help students to better understand about the work of the different entities in order to facilitate the decision making about their careers. Another important gap which we will try to cover is to have a direct experience with the organization which might be also possible to include in their CV. Organizations will present a case which might be a problem or challenge for the Organization. They will also include some resources, lectures and materials to help students in the case. The different Organizations will do a presentation of the case, later, students will decide in a first-come first-served basis which project they want to work in.

10. Case Method: How to Prepare for Case Method Analysis & The Theory of the Practice

How should you prepare for the case method? During this session you will have a deep preparation about this important step in the main recruitment processes. Are you ready?

11. Case Project

In the last session students will present their work with a power point or another presentation tool. They will then receive the feedback and will receive a qualification of their job from the different representatives.
Students will also prepare a document to send it to the representatives and esade careers. After this experience, students will be able to add in their CV this experience having a more attractive profile for those institutions.

Metodología

To achieve the objectives of the course, we use a methodology based on the learning by doing approach: active participation, lecturers, and case discussion.

Guest executives with the aim of furthering students' knowledge of very concrete industry areas, the course is centered on the participation of guest executives specialized in different fields within the industry. The aim is to illustrate the practical application of industry & organizations principles in their different facets

Criterios de evaluación

- 50% Class attendance, Class participation & Individual Reflections
Grading class participation is necessarily subjective. However, we try to make it as "objective as possible? Some of the criteria for evaluating effective class participation include:

Is the participant prepared? Do comments show evidence of analysis of the case/reading/lecture? Do comments add to our understanding of the situation? Does the participant go beyond simple/repetition of basic facts without analysis and conclusions?
Is the participant a good listener? Are the points made relevant to the discussion? Are they linked to the comments of others? Is the participant willing to interact with other class members?
Is the participant an effective communicator? Are concepts presented in a concise and convincing way?
10% Individual reflections

- 50% Case Project

IMPORTANT:
- Mandatory Attendace
80% For the ordinary call
50% For the extraordinary call

Bibliografía

Resources:
- Graduate First
- Sectorial/Industry Videos
- Vault Guides
- My Consulting Coach

Horarios y secciones

Grupo Profesor Departamento
Year 3 Roque Adrada Sanchez-Lafuente Dirección de Personas y Organización

Horario Year 3

Del 5/9/2022 al 21/11/2022:
Cada lunes de 15:30 a 17:00. (Excepto: 26/9/2022)

Miércoles 1/2/2023 de 8:00 a 8:15.