Students and alumni alike receive comprehensive support from the Career Management Department which works hand in hand with the school's Career Centres

Our mission is twofold:

• To allow Edhec students and alumni of all ages to profit from an effective support system to optimize their career.
  
• To offer partner companies looking to employ Edhec students and alumni the most comprehensive service in the shortest time possible.
  

The Career Management Department meets graduates looking for jobs or career advice during personal interviews. In 2004-2005, it gave 435 interviews. During these interviews, the graduate is offered career aptitude tests and appraisals. The PerformanSe personality test can be taken at EDHEC directly, while the technical tests (verbal, numerical and abstract) are conducted in partnership with the Hobson consulting agency, and the professional aptitude tests (47 in 2004-2005) with Dialectis.

To be even more effective, the Career Management Department carries out studies to forecast how the principal functions of a firm in sectors like marketing or finance will evolve in two, five or ten years time. We forecast over five years ago the impact of the IFRS on the audit and accountancy sector, for example. Today, we can already predict that within five years, three fluent languages will be a minimum requirement for professional high flyers as well as literacy in terms of IT tools that will greatly exceed basic skills in Microsoft Office!

The second key mission of the Career Management Department is to help firms find the best Edhec student or graduate to fit their specific needs as quickly as possible.
To ensure that the offer corresponds to a company's requirements and to respond to our partner firms and recruitment agencies as quickly as possible, a targeted graduate database has been set up, based on a system of key search words. Thanks to this CV database, the profiles which best correspond to the 10,000 annual requests can be identified and put forward to our partners extremely fast.
In fact, we act in the same way as headhunters, where we ourselves prospect the '(wo)man in a million' that our partner is looking for.
Out of the 9,066 offers received last year, 12.3% were for top executive posts, 42.6% for experienced managers, 34.1% for executives with a first experience and 11% for beginners.