How Insead Business School Allows its MBA Grads to change country of work, sector or functional area on leaving Insead

Today will be a short post.

Insead aims to allow its MBA students to change either country of work, sector or functional area on leaving Insead.  Here are some things (amongst others) that they do to help their students along.

Career Counseling and Character Profiling

Like most US MBA programs, the career services runs MBA students through a psychological test to analyse their character.  With an understanding of the character of each MBA student, the career services counselor will examine the database of jobs available and then steer the student towards a proper fit.  

Language Proficiency

Insead like most French business schools makes its students learn an additional third language.  This is highly useful as it makes Insead’s MBA students more globalised and able to be placed into new countries or job sectors.  After coming back from a French trip, I have learnt that a little language proficiency goes a long way into establishing trust and can propel you forward in another country.

Salary Negotiations Skills

Salary negotiation is an important skill to impart to students and it should be made compulsory for all MBA students.  This is an important lifeskill that one should pick up.  This would help in the salary rankings of Insead as well.

Thats all folks for today!!!

Insead and its Asian Strategy

Insead being a predominately European school has come to asia to learn and develop strategies to teach its companies on how to succeed in Asia.  As part of this, it has set up the Asia Pacific Institute of Finance to do the following "The objective of APIF is the generation and dissemination of knowledge as well as the enhancement of skills and capabilities of professionals in the area of finance in Asia".

What an interesting idea which I think may be more marketing related but to succeed I suppose they need to boost the China focus.  Elsewhere in Asia, finance is largely based on the US/ European model and I am not sure what the focus in research would be.