Introduction to HEC Talents (Career Center)
HEC Talents (Career Center) offers a unique approach in helping you to achieve your career transformation, starting before your arrival on campus and continuing until graduation.
We provide a range of services to enable you to make informed career decisions that are aligned with your personal values and professional goals.
We work with you so that you gain the skills and tools to make your own career choices and to proactively manage your professional development.
Some of the key elements include:
- A specific MBA Career Program to help you define and achieve your career goals.
- A Talents Development & Corporate Relations Management Team providing 1-to-1 support to help fine-tune your job strategy.
- An Employer Engagement and Events team dedicated to facilitating the connection with companies and recruiters, via on campus recruitment events and student treks.
Our Approach
Our program is structured around three main steps:
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Know Yourself:
We recommend that you start your transformation journey by a reflection on your skills and competences. We offer a program of self-assessment exercises, workshops and one-on-one counseling to help you understand and articulate your strengths, preferences and key motivations.
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Know the Market:
We believe that in order to achieve a successful career transformation it is also necessary to have a good understanding of the current markets. We advise you to attend many if not all of our sector-focused workshops at the beginning of your career journey. In complement, we encourage you to attend career fairs, company presentations, MBA club events and company treks and to leverage our 68,000+ strong Alumni network.
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Match Yourself to the Market:
The final step is to make it happen! Finalize your career action plan and make sure you take advantage of our specialized workshops and training sessions on interviewing and negotiation skills, among others.
Connecting with Recruiters
- MBA Career Week
- MBA Internship Day
- MBA May Career Fair
- MBA Retail & Luxury Career Forum
- Company presentations
- HEC International Consulting Fair
- HEC International Finance Fair
- HEC Carrefours Career Fair
- HEC Spring Career Fair
- Sector-focused career fairs – digital, impact, retail/luxury/life sciences
- Regional-focused career fairs – during the World of Opportunities Fair
What to do before your arrival on campus
HEC Talents (Career Center) offers a unique approach in helping you achieve your career transformation, starting before your arrival on campus and continuing until graduation.
Get your CV Ready
As part of our HEC Talents (Career Center) program, we have developed a MANDATORY pre-course module, ‘Writing an Impactful CV’. Completing this module will enable you to have your HEC Paris CV ready for recruiters, alumni and networking opportunities.
Resources for jump-starting your career search
Our Databases
Once you have your HEC email and identification, you can start accessing the HEC Talents (Career Center) job-search databases. Download the complete list here.
Career Guides
If you’re interested in a specific sector or industry, these guides are the perfect resources to boost your knowledge.
Top recruiting guides:
- MBA Recruitment Guide Top 100 Companies
- MBA Recruitment Guide Ftse Top UK Companies
- MBA Recruitment Guide Ftse Top European Companies (Excluding UK)
- International MBA Job Search
Sector-specific guides:
- Career Guide to Consulting
- Top 25 Banking Employers
- Career Guide to Technology
- Career Guide to Healthcare Management
- Career Guide to Energy
- Career Guide to General Consumer Products
- Career Guide to Retail
- Career Guide to Marketing
Internships
Though they are not a mandatory part of the MBA curriculum, many participants complete internships to help with their career transformation.
Cover Letter
Most companies request that applicants submit a cover letter with your CV, explaining which job you are applying for and why you are interested in it. Resources and workshops will be provided to you once on campus.
First days on campus
During your first days on campus, you are invited to attend “Meet the HEC Talents team” where you will have a chance to meet our team and learn which sector they specialize in.
You will start the eight mandatory Career Essentials workshops:
- Know Yourself Foundations
- Intro to Career Strategy
- Network for Your Success
- Impact for CV Writing
- Build your Personal Brand
- Play Your Career Journey
- Case Cracking Foundations
- Demystifying the Job Market
Other workshops will also be delivered that week so that you may discover sectors of interest. We encourage you to participate in most of them, as it will be a landmark for your career exploration.
As part of your careers program, you will have a dedicated Career Advisor who will conduct your first career counseling session.
Expect a full schedule of workshops and group sessions, which we hope, will ensure you are equipped to reach your professional goals
A few words from career coaches
“You can’t connect the dots looking forward, you can only connect them looking backward. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future.” – Nadia Crobeddu
“Be unabashed in your quest to learn and discover. You may uncover that there is more to your deams than you had first imagined.” – Pooja Prabhushankar
“Keeping in mind where you come from, go and build your own dreams or someone else will hire you to build theirs” – Iva Fiori
“Networking is the MBA student’s best friend. Enjoy without moderation and double your chances to hit the job of your dream” – Sophie Drouard
“Be open to change, shift perspectives, and discover what will make you thrive while keeping yourself inspired and challenged.” – Zouheir Sawma