To help graduates succeed in a competitive labour market Brunel Business School and the award winning Placement and Career Centre have developed a short, intensive 90 day programme starting on 7th January 2013. With opportunities to structure and improve job search strategies, graduates will get hands-on support from careers consultants from the Placement and Careers Service.
As part of the Business Life Programme, Dr Grahame Fallon led a party of 12 MSc in Management students on this year’s BMW MINI Oxford Plant tour in December 2012.
Professor Ashley Braganza, the Director of Business Life and a truly motivational force, met with MBA students in a recent class session to prepare them for the next international business tour. Seven students will be selected to travel to India where they will meet heads of top level corporations and small not-for profit organisations.
Brunel Business School recently hosted an annual Capstone event: ‘Making Growth Happen – What can be done to achieve an authentically sustainable economic growth?’ under the umbrella of Business Life: Employability Programme.
Joshua Fitzgerald and Stephanie Gaynor, both final year Business and Management (specialising in accounting and marketing) students were the successful runners up in the national Bright Futures competition in collaboration with PwC. The competition is part of an initiative introduced to Brunel Business School students by the School’s employability programme; Business Life. This was a great way of giving students the opportunity to put their degree theory into ‘real life’ practice.
The most recent “Let’s Talk Business” Guest Speaker Series featured Simon Nicholson, Brunel MBA student and a Director of Operations at Oxford Instruments, a FTSE 250 company with 1900 employees worldwide and a turnover of £262m. Entitled “Global Operations Strategy”, Simon’s presentation centred on issues facing operations management in a global context.
To bring the tools and techniques of supply chain and logistics management to life, students on the MSc Global Supply Chain Management embarked on a visit to the MINI production plant in Cowley, Oxford.
James Wrisdale, Analyst and Macro Economist in the Asset Management Division of Goldman Sachs, joined the Brunel Business School MBA students last Wednesday with a presentation on "The BRICs and beyond", a unique insight on today’s global market and a forecast for the next decades. The meeting was a part of 'Let’s Talk Business', a guest speakers series running throughout the MBA calendar.
Graduate employability is the final product of a good degree, most of us would agree. It’s personal to the student, and it certainly is business to the University.
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