MBA Career Services & Employer Alliance 2014 European Conference

Programming for Employers
If you're an employer who is brand new to the organization, contact us about a special discount attendance rate!

As an organization that focuses on both career services and employers, we welcome and encourage companies that hire MBAs and/or Masters in Business students to attend our European Conference. Employers enjoy the chance to network with schools in attendance, both to develop new relationships and enhance existing ones, as well as the opportunity to network with other companies to learn best practices. Another value-add component for employers is the robust programming, designed with employers in mind.

Our employer members tell us that the relationships they develop and the skills they learn at our conferences have a tremendous positive impact on their recruiting efforts. Here is what one employer attendee had to say about our European Conference:

“I look forward to the MBA CSEA conference in EMEA every year. It is great to re-connect with existing contacts, as well as create new relationships with both schools and employers. I value the opportunity to step away from the day job and think about the broader MBA and Masters environment and it provides an ideal forum to listen, share and learn. We have had some great fun too over the years. I wouldn’t miss it!” – Blair Beavis - EMEA Regional University Recruitment Manager, Johnson & Johnson

View or full conference programme here. Following are highlights from the programming that were designed for employer attendees:

Monday 4 April
9:00 - 10:30	Keynote Speaker: Martyn Newman, Executive Director, Roche Martin Emotional Intelligence in a Volatile, Uncertain, Complex and Ambiguous world "People do business with you in direct proportion to how you make them feel" - Dr. Martyn Newman's joins us today to explore with us why Emotional Intelligence is increasingly seen as integral to business success and leadership excellence. He will discuss what skills or qualities underpin our levels of emotional intelligence and what role resilience plays in helping us build relationships and collaborate with those around us. He will talk about working with organisations to unlock the potential of their employees through EQ and how businesses today must prepare employees to create an ethos of constant renewal in an increasingly uncertain and frictionless world.
11:15 - 12:45	Best Practice Sharing Sessions: Self-Leadership Perspectives and Tools to Navigate in an Increasingly Complex World
14:00 - 15:30	Best Practice Sharing Sessions (repeat from the morning session)
16:00 - 17:30	Facilitated Employer Panel Session Employer and recruiter representatives will join us and share their insights and experience. Come ready to debate disruptive recruiting and hiring techniques, shifting candidate expectations and their perception of skills needed for the future. It promises to be an insightful session.

Tuesday 5 April
9:00 - 10:30	Special Interest Breakout Forums / Speed dating This year we would like to introduce a new session format to you, building on some of the successes the Global conference has seen in recent years with shorter, snappier sharing sessions. In just over an hour and a half you will attend two breakout ‘lite’ sessions, each facilitated by a member of your programme committee. Each session has a very specific topic and is guided around THREE KEY QUESTIONS. Session 1 Coaching and Hiring Masters Students Working with recruitment firms The CV book and its alternatives Session 2: Recruiting Veterans Whose Job is it to prepare MBAs for success Working with the rankings
11 - 12:30	Innovation Spotlight plenary speakers We would like to introduce another new session style today, our Innovation Spotlight plenary where we bring you three different speakers each addressing an innovation or a disruption that has or will impact how we teach, coach and recruit in the future. Each speaker will have 15 minutes for an open plenary, and after lunch each of our speakers will be leading a breakout session to explore further the themes and ideas in his or her Innovation Spotlight. Spotlight speakers: Dave Hazlehurst (A.k.a Google Dave) Dave looks at how to harness the power of human emotions and rational thinking to help businesses plan and execute digital strategies to attract, engage and convert their target audiences. Charlie Reeve, Growth Mindset Charlie reveals the differences between a fixed and growth mindset in graduates and reveals how graduate recruiters are now using mindset for graduate recruitment and development. Bob Plumridge, Chief Technology Officer of Hitachi Bob will discuss aligning technology vision with business strategy and evangelising this vision to the press, analysts, existing and potential customers.
14:00 - 15:15	Innovation Spotlight Sessions Our Innovation Spotlight speakers (listed above) will discuss topics in-depth.
16:15 - 17:30	Keynote Session and Concluding Remarks Magnus Lindkvist, Futurist Future Proof your Life and Business We’ve heard about change and disruption over the last 2 days, and how we as business schools and businesses should be responding, but Magnus Lindkvist has a very particular view of the future to share with us, one where we don’t just react or predict from trends, but realise the page is blank and we have, and should exercise, the power to shape what comes next. Prepare to be amazed and inspired! Magnus Lindkvist, one of the top ten speakers in the world in 2014 according to MeetingsNet, is a trendspotting futurologist. In his talks and books, he is continuously looking for ideas and clues as to how the modern business world works and what it might look like tomorrow. He has given in excess of a thousand keynotes over the past decade across all continents and to everyone from Fortune 500 CEO’s and civil servants in the Middle East to digital entrepreneurs and anyone looking to be inspired and enlightened about trendspotting and future-thinking. Those who have listened are usually impressed by his engaging speaking style. To put it in the words of an executive at a global manufacturing firm to whose top managers he spoke in 2015:

Wednesday 6 April
9:30 - 10:30	Train the Trainer Sessions Strengths Based Interviewing – A fad, or the next norm? Employers Closed Session This is your chance to network with other employers behind closed doors and ask burning questions that might be on your mind such as: internship turnover, recruiting strategies, relationship development with schools, etc.
11:00 - 12:00	Train the Trainer Sessions (repeat from the morning sessions)