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DCU Executive MBA Career Skills Day

As part of the DCU Executive MBA (EMBA) personal and career development theme, a programme of activities was designed by the Programme Director to develop EMBA participants self-awareness, leadership competencies and career development competencies.

These activities include partaking in an assessment centre, coaching clinics with professional coaches, CV and Interview workshops. This culminates in a career and personal development day, which was organised and run by DCU Career Service in collaboration with DCU Business School and DCU Alumni Office. The result was a packed day consisting of 1:1 coaching sessions, mock panel interviewers, assessment centre feedback sessions, CV clinics and a keynote inspirational speaker.

DCU Career Service through Yvonne McLoughlin organised top calibre professionals to deliver each activity. Professional coaches provided excellent career or personal development advice to EMBA participants. DCU Alumni working in top calibre organisations in HR Director or recruitment or consultancy roles put our EMBA’s through their paces in challenging mock panel interviews and provided immediate feedback on their performance. HR and management professionals ran CV clinics to provide personalised advice on CV’s.

Our EMBA’s described the line-up of activities and the feedback obtained as ‘one of the highlights’ of their MBA journey thus far. The participants were very impressed with the extent of personalised feedback they received. They were grateful for the opportunity to be challenged by top professionals in a no-consequences context. This event is testament to the value to be obtained from collaboration between a Business School, Career Services and Alumni where each unit delivers on what it is best at.

The DCU Executive MBA programme is the capstone programme in the Business School and attracts a diversity of participants in terms of demographics, industry and professional expertise- participants must have at least a 2.1 degree and a minimum of 3 years management level experience. This calibre of EMBA participant and their organisations make a large commitment to completing an EMBA and they expect a professional offering of the highest international standard. The DCU Career Service delivered such an event this year as judged by our customers – the DCU Executive MBA’s.

“A timely and wonderful event that provides the skills to go out and progress your career. Professionally organised with highly talented interviewers and coaches, it has been a very positive experience and one that will help me secure the next phase of my career”.

“The day offered an opportunity to test yourself on not only your skill set for interviewing, but also in personal development. The CV clinic provided some real nuggets that may just prove the difference in getting selected for that next big interview”.

(Pictured: MBA2 class with Paralympic athlete, gold and silver medal winner Dave Malone)

Learn more about the DCU Executive MBA programme

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Ten Reasons to do a Masters in DCU Business School

DCU Business School Masters programmes are renowned for having a unique blend of applied theory and real world practice.  Are you thinking of undertaking a Masters? Here’s ten reasons to choose DCU Business School!

  • Distinctive Postgraduate Portfolio – Specialising at postgraduate level can augment your skills sets and make you a stronger job applicant. Our portfolio of professional studies includes full and part-time Masters programmes and a significant number of programmes offered by DCU Business School are unique or the first of their kind in Ireland.

  • Diversity – DCU is a diverse, multi-ethnic community with over 2,000 international students from 116 countries. DCU Business School courses attract a wide diversity of students from many different countries, including recent graduates and experienced executives. To date over 43,000 students have graduated from DCU and are now playing key roles in many sectors across the world.

  • The Learning Partnership – DCU Business School has developed a reputation for lecturer and student interacting as equals in a ‘learning partnership’. As part of the ‘adult learning experience’ experiential learning techniques, including business simulations, case studies, seminars, problem-solving and team building exercises are used to apply knowledge.

  • Variety and Depth in Teaching – DCU Business School staff come from a broad spectrum of backgrounds: accounting, economics, finance, human resource management, information systems, engineering, management, marketing, and psychology. DCUBS academics play an active role in advising government, industry bodies, SMEs and major corporations with research published in leading international academic and business journals.

  • Next Generation Management Philosophy – Next Generation Management is DCU Business School’s ground-breaking initiative, which is designed to prepare the next generation of business managers and leaders, who are adaptive and flexible, innovative, socially responsible and accountable. DCUBS prides itself on its ability to deliver excellent management education in keeping with the needs of the market and to provide students with the knowledge, competence and ability to apply it.

  • Top Class Facilities – Within DCU Business School’s purpose built facility students have access to study rooms for group assignments and collaborative study; computer rooms; a coffee shop; and wireless internet access. Classrooms are fitted with state-of-the-art audio-visual equipment. Students have 24-hour online access to materials, project details and submission requirements via Loop, our online learning platform which offers access to an e-library and allows students to study from home.

  • Global Outlook –  Highly regarded internationally, DCU Business School is a member of the International Partnership of Business Schools (IPBS). DCUBS is actively involved in a wide array of international research projects, student and lecturer exchanges and other international ventures, which are central to our existence.

  • Links to Business – We are justifiably proud of our links with business. DCU Business School seminar series provide a forum for visiting academics and senior business practitioners to impart their knowledge and experience to DCUBS students, while industry-based projects enable students to ground their learning in real-world scenarios.

  • Graduate Reputation – Our reputation as a business school is based, above all else, on the quality of our graduates. Their capacity for creative thinking, their cross-disciplinary approach to problem-solving, and their ability to operate effectively make DCUBS graduates among the most sought after in Ireland and beyond. Our graduates hold senior positions in public and private enterprise around the world and we continue to educate future leaders of Irish and international business.

If you want to take your career to the next level, DCU Business School has the postgraduate programme to help you realise your full potential. If you are thinking about doing a Masters in DCU Business School, you can check out all of DCU Business School’s Postgraduate programmes here.

 

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