Career Development Videos

Career Development Journey

Building a career is a lifelong journey. At INSEAD, our 10-month MBA programme provides students a starting point to fast-track a transformation in their careers. Find out how INSEAD’s Career Development Centre helps our students to achieve their aspirations and maximise their pre-determined career goals with a personalised career model.

Partners Through Your INSEAD MBA Career Journey

At INSEAD, our Career Coaches from the Career Development Centre find great satisfaction when they see our students achieving and exceeding goals, and getting a job that they are happy in. Our unique model of providing a specialised Career Coach to every MBA student throughout their entire MBA journey allows us to work closely with them, and better understand their needs, aspirations and motivations. Hear from our MBA alumni as they share about their career development journey at INSEAD, and how their Career Coaches helped them to map out and embark on the career that they have always wanted.

The CDC Employer and Recruiter Engagement Team

Working closely with our MBA students and recruiters, the Employer Engagement Team at INSEAD brings in the views of what industries need, and helps our MBA students develop a value proposition that makes them attractive to employers. With INSEAD’s three campuses in Asia, Europe and the Middle East, recruiters benefit by having a footprint in each of these geographies when hiring talents for global recruitments. Beyond working with MBA students and employers to find the right candidates for the right jobs, what makes the Employer Engagement Team successful, is when they are seen as trusted advisors by both companies and students. Watch this video to find out more.

Careers in Consulting

MBA Careers in Consulting

A career in consulting offers our MBA students global exposure and the platform to apply their skill sets across a variety of topics – from market growth and strategy to operational excellence and capital productivity. At INSEAD, our team at the Career Development Centre (CDC) works closely with over 130 consulting firms around the world. The CDC prepares MBA students for their careers in consulting by designing programmes and activities for them to understand the sector and get ready for job interviews. Find out more about our MBA alumni’s consulting careers, and how INSEAD had provided them the knowledge and networks to embark on their consulting journeys.

Careers in Financial Services

MBA Careers in Financial Services

If you want to build a career in finance, joining the INSEAD MBA will open amazing opportunities for you in the industry. With the help of the Career Development Centre, students get support from sector specialists who can connect them with employers and recruiters from all over the globe. Through the CDC, they also gain access to the school's vast alumni network, so they can reach out to fellow INSEADers with careers in financial services.

Careers in Technology, Start-Ups, Media & Telecommunications

MBA Careers in Technology, Startups, Media & Telecomms

More MBA students are now going into technology companies and startups because of the exciting opportunities to solve big problems and build the future. Through INSEAD's Career Development Centre, our MBAs get support in refining their "pitch" to employers to make their desired career switch possible.
Beyond our CDC resources, INSEAD MBA students also benefit from the programme's rich entrepreneurship content, diverse population and intense 10-month structure. These elements prepare them to match the quick pace of the industry as well as handle the uncertainties that come with creating new products and solutions or conquering new markets.

Careers in Social Enterprise

Elena Panaritis (MBA03D) on Creating a Social Enterprise

INSEAD MBA Alumna Elena Panaritis is the founder of Panel Group, a social enterprise which helps countries to establish secure property rights. She talks about creating a social enterprise, the extra skills social entrepreneurs need, and her spell as an MP in post-crisis Greece.

In this video she talks about raising money, skills needed for social entrepreneurs, and how to effectively realise a social enterprise vision.

Careers in Entrepreneurship

The Entrepreneurship Experience at INSEAD

At INSEAD, the vibrant entrepreneurship environment presents global opportunities for our MBA students to turn their ideas into real ventures. We have a variety of entrepreneurship electives to provide students new insights to pull a business idea together. The INSEAD Centre for Entrepreneurship also organises exciting extracurricular activities—from bootcamps to venture competitions—to allow students to put their ideas and skills to the test. Finally, our active alumni community enables our students to network with successful entrepreneurs who can share their experiences building, funding, and growing companies.

Hear from alumni Taavet Hinrikus (MBA '10D), Transferwise CEO and Co-founder, and Geoff Ralston (MBA '92D), Y Combinator Partner and Imagine K12 Founder, and find out more about the entrepreneurship experience at INSEAD.