According to data from the most recent academic year, nine out of ten students from ESADE Business School find work either before finishing their studies or within three months of graduating. Recent graduates have gone into a wide range of sectors, including consulting, financial services, technology and mass-market consumer goods.

All ESADE Business School programmes have high job placement rates: 95% of graduates from the Bachelor of Business Administration (BBA), 95% of graduates from the Double Degree in Business Administration and Law, 91% of graduates from the MSc Programmes in Management and 96% of graduates from the CEMS programme find work within a few months of completing their studies.

Besides their success in entering the job market, students from ESADE Business School are highly international. Eight out of ten graduates from ESADE’s MSc programmes secure employment outside of Spain, including in countries such as Germany, the United Kingdom, Italy, China, Switzerland and India. Germany and the United Kingdom are the most common destinations, accounting for 35% of the total.

According to Maria Obiols, Director of ESADE Careers, many of the companies that take part in ESADE’s career fairs “use these events as a way to begin their selection processes on campus”. She added: “They come to ESADE in search of dynamic, innovative people capable of working in international teams – people who know how to navigate a high-tech, globalised world where it is necessary to constantly adapt and adopt transversal solutions.”

Consulting is the number-one sector for ESADE alumni – 32% of MSc graduates and 37% of BBA graduates entered these fields over the past three years – followed by financial services in the case of the MSc programmes and industry in the case of the BBA.

ESADE: a key player in the job placement process

On 27th and 29th March, ESADE hosted the sixth edition of the Spring Recruitment Fair on its international campus in Sant Cugat. At this event, students in the BBA, the Double Degree in Business Administration and Law and the MSc Programmes in Management had the chance to learn more about 36 companies from various countries and sectors, including Henkel, Grifols, Mango, PepsiCo, HP, Beiersdorf AG, Sanofi, Salesforce, Daimler and RB. In addition, Nestlé and Torres held specific workshops to provide a more in-depth look at their various areas of business.

The Spring Recruitment Fair is one of the six fairs organised by the ESADE Careers team over the course of the year. One of ESADE’s objectives is to train responsible leaders capable of adding value to the companies that employ them. ESADE believes it is important for students to familiarise themselves with the leading companies in various sectors before they finish their studies. In addition to organising sector-specific career fairs, ESADE also coordinates on-campus job interviews and designs online recruitment sessions.

In addition to the companies mentioned above, these processes and events feature the participation of companies like Google, the Boston Consulting Group, McKinsey & Company, Morgan Stanley and Roland Berger. ESADE Careers prepares students beforehand to ensure that they are familiar with the selection processes applied by each company and prepared to make the best possible impression.