This Blog news explains the results of the Career Services and Entrepreneurship activity carried out during the month of October. In total, 95 of our students were placed having a professional impact. Moreover, our students this last month had the opportunities to take part to:
The Career Services help RBS Students to be ready to enter the job market, developing the right knowledge, providing the market insights and tools that they need to pursue a successful career in a specific industry. With the support of the Career Service the student can define the career path, develop a strategy, hone the self presentation skills, and sharpen the CV. Moreover, through the Career Services students have access to exclusive tools including a job portal, expert mentoring, consulting training, career targeting, and presence optimization. It provides everything the student needs to fulfil the aspirations, helping to make the most of the knowledge and capabilities of each of them. You can learn more about our Career Services and our Masters at: https://romebusinessschool.com/masters/
Now thanks to RBS partners and the Career Services, 95 of our students have the opportunities to continue develop their skills, to put competences in practice and the possibility to growth professionally in companies such as: Nespresso, Hays, Renault, Patrizia Pepe, LoroPiana, Bulgari, Amazon, Heineken, KPMG, Electrolux, Generali Arts.
Nere Leaniz, now E-commerce & Operations Product Care at Massimo Dutti.
Nere L., student of the Global Master in Fashion and Luxury Management, explains how she made the most of her experience of RBS.
“Thanks to this Master I have had new experiences and I have met people from different countries and cultures which has made me grow professionally and personally as well as helping me to continue growing inside my company and in the world of fashion. I highly recommend the bootcamp offered by the RBS as it is a challenging and enriching experience to enjoy both academically and socially.”
Valentina Morando, now Junior Business Advisor at Odoo
Valentina M., student of the Global Master in International Management, talks about what specifically gave her RBS, how she grew while enjoying her learning journey.
“I hold a Bachelor’s Degree in Tourism Management and International Trade and a Master’s Degree in Tourism Economics and Management. Hence, being a tourism student my working experiences have always been focused in this sector or very similar ones (e.g., event field). After taking my Master’s degree during the Covid-19 pandemic, such a thriving moment for the tourism industry, I had the opportunity to work as Junior Team Assistant for a well-known consultancy firm in Milan, which made me realize how crucial it is nowadays to have transversal expertise and knowledge covering diverse sectors and subjects. Therefore, I took the leap and I decided to start a new academic journey to complete a Global Master in International Management that fully responded to my will to widen my soft skills and knowledge regarding different topics and areas of interest, such as Financial Management, Investor Relations, Corporate Internationalization etc., to better get into those mechanisms at the base of any business and strategic decision and action plan. After the first semester of my Master, I was able to showcase my knowledge and expertise regarding those areas of subject stated above, which helped me both to truly understand what kind of job and role I’d like to have in a business environment and to navigate the hiring process and business cases presented during interviews since nowadays interviews are mostly skilled- and knowledge-based.”
The most important skills acquired at RBS that are essential in the world of work today as well are being able to analyze a specific business case/situation to take well-defined and structured decisions and to design a better action plan, being able to understand how strategies are designed and presented to different levels of seniority and how the investment plans do influence these decisions (i.e., get into the investor and the board relations mechanisms), and take always under consideration the scenario in the widest way, which means focusing not only on the local environment but also on the international one customer- and culturally-wise (analyzing the cultural aspects and how customs and traditions can highly impact customers’ decision-making journey and strategies).
I decided to join RBS and more specifically to attend this academic program because RBS provides students with a wide range of services and opportunities that can be split into two major branches. The first branch would be the one regarding the individual master program based on a solid board of professors, who are experts in a sector or area of expertise, able to both showcase their knowledge and soft skills on specific subject and to get students to understand the whole infrastructures and dynamics behind a topic with tangible examples and business cases. The second branch would be the one linked to those services and activities backing up the academic offer, such as the career service and the career advisors supporting each student to navigate the job search, company visits that provide students with the unique opportunity to meet very important firms at international level (e.g., American Express, Gucci, Adidas, Deloitte, etc.) and ask questions about the job and/or the hiring process to the speakers, company shadowing to deserving students, and international bootcamps focused on specific topics where students can explore companies playing a crucial role in the industry, meeting up with top managers or directors, and gain soft and hard skills on a specific subject (e.g., the Silicon Valley Bootcamp is focused on World Technology and Digital Innovation and we had the opportunity to visit such hot companies in the tech world – Google, Meta, and Synopsys to name a few – and have extremely inspiring conversations about the current and future trends in technologies and how each speaker’s journey and decisions have lead her/him to where she/he is today), and RBS4Entrepreurship is a very interesting project for those people with entrepreneurial spirit who would like to see their breakthrough business ideas come into reality.
My career goal is to gain a very wide and solid knowledge on negotiation, sales, business analysis to provide customers with the best solution in terms of both product and long-term profitability and performance. Being a Business Advisor will help me achieve my goal since my day-to-day activities will be mainly focused on getting to know customers, designing a performing solution and quotation on the basis of their individual needs and strategies, and negotiating contract terms and pricing in order to get the deal. It’s going to be a long and challenging ride, but I am confident I will achieve my objectives considering what I learnt throughout my journey with RBS.
What I would recommend to my fellow students to get a job opportunity like me is (I know it says 3 tips but I’d stick with these 6):
