Resources
10 Minutes With
The School of Management subscribes to 10 Minutes With, an educational resource to help students understand the true nature of different jobs.
The resource comprises short video interviews with company directors, executives and business people of all sorts.
- To get started, just register here, you must use your Bradford email address
About 10 Minutes With
10 Minutes With is an educational website, designed for students of universities and business schools. Every week interviews are held with senior directors in various roles where they are asked to explain their jobs and day-to-day activities in exactly 10 minutes. The interviews help students understand the true nature of different roles and skills they require before launching specific career paths. Quite simply, 10 Minutes With helps students understand what working in a particular function would look like.
Online numeracy and verbal reasoning tests
Many recruiters now use ability testing as part of their recruitment process, be prepared and practice before you encounter the real thing!
The University Careers Service has bought the licence for students to practice the KENEXA online tests (verbal and numerical online tests).
If you want to have the opportunity to practice these tests, please email Roy Christian at R.Christian@bradford.ac.uk. Please state your full name, gender, your course title and year(1st /2nd /3rd/4th or postgraduate and your UoB number. This service is only open to current students of the university.
For more information, please visit: http://www.careers.brad.ac.uk/psychometric-tests/index.php
Workmaze MBA Recruitment Guides
Your Business School has invested in the latest up to date recruitment tools to get you that position you deserve.
Workmaze is a career coaching and information company that has been helping people to find the perfect career since 1999. We work with over 45 business schools throughout the world, delivering career services and information products. Our coaches have extensive experience in Masters, MBA and executive level recruitment and hold internationally recognised qualifications in career coaching and guidance. This resources provides information and resources including:
- MBA Recruitment Guides
- Executive Recruitment Guides
- MBA Workshops
- Career Development Workbooks
- Career Management Videos
To access this resource go to www.workmaze.com . Go to 'Business School - Member log in'
(NOTE: details of the school username and password and how to use the resources can be can be found on Blackboard in the School of Management Career Development Services Folder, under Information and Resources.)
24-hour access to the Career Insider
- industry and career guidebooks
- premium-employer profiles
- information on top employers
- company research area: link to more than 2,500 company profiles
- career advice covering 29 key categories
- industry overviews
- occupation profiles
MBA students and alumni can now gain access to TopMBA Careers. The site provides you with:
- free access to a searchable database of jobs wordwide
- a calendar of networking events and training courses
- membership of an on-line directory for MBAs
- links to local career-coaching specialists
- a host of careers and company information
For details on how to create your accounts e-mail: careers.mgt@bradford.ac.uk
Access top global career opportunities, exclusively for MBAs
Bradford University School of Management is one of a group of leading business schools featured on MBA-Direct.com.
As a student or alumnus of Bradford University School of Management you can register for free with MBA-Direct.com and
- Receive tailored, personalized job alerts by email
- Search for global MBA-only jobs
- Create your name-confidential MBA profile and choose to make it available to executive search firms
- Apply direct for genuine, executive MBA job opportunities
Part of the Financial Times group, MBA-Direct.com is a professional online service linking MBA students and alumni from the world's leading business schools to global executive recruiters. MBA-Direct.com promotes genuine, international, executive MBA job opportunities and provides an advanced, effective method of recruitment across geographic boundaries, industry sectors and recruitment schedules.
So, if you are interested in working for companies such as Ernst & Young, Vodafone, Standard Chartered, Google, Bank of America, and The World Bank; or being headhunted by Odgers Ray & Berndtson, Boyden Global Executive Search, Russell Reynolds Associates or keeping your eye on the MBA job market, then visit www.mba-direct.com and register for FREE.
On registration you will be prompted to provide a security code that identifies you as a graduate of Bradford University School of Management. Please apply to careers.mgt@bradford.ac.uk for the security code. Using this code ensures that those who register are bona fide graduates which is important for maintaining the quality and integrity of the service.
CareerMee - Where MBA jobs apply to you
Bradford University School of Management has joined CareerMee.com - an exclusive MBA recruitment platform that gives you confidential exposure to senior management positions. A CareerMee.com profile compliments your other job-search activities by keeping you visible in front of the world's leading headhunters and companies.
CareerMee.com is a simple concept: a streamlined, targeted reverse job board that keeps your identity confidential. Our goal is to empower candidates, and our site is easy-to-use: no convoluted features, no learning curve and no spam.
Create your CareerMee.com profile and let it do the work for you!
Take 5 minutes to create your anonymous profile and select your job matching criteria. MBA recruiters will contact you regarding suitable positions by requesting your details. Maintain your confidentiality by choosing which recruiter requests you accept.CareerMee.com is exclusively for MBAs from the highest ranking business schools. Run by MBAs for MBAs, it will always be free of charge to you.
http://www.careermee.com/schools
Grad Consultants is a global and vertically integrated MBA and graduate careers company that facilitates internships and employment for students and recent alumni with leading multinational employers. They also undertake international research and consulting assignments by bringing together talent from top-tier business schools.
Find out more and register your profile at www.grad-consultants.com
Network MBA - MBA Jobs
Jobs for new and experienced MBAs.Register today and take the first step towards a superb career move.
Register in full to receive targeted MBA job alerts and get head-hunted.
Jobsgopublic.com is the UK's leading public and not for profit sector niche jobs board, listing over 30,000 job vacancies last year. Job categories on www.jobsgopublic.com include the housing sector, educational and teaching opportunities and of course local and central government covering an extensive skill set.
What's on offer for job seekers:
- Save your search to receive the latest jobs directly to your email or mobile device
- Latest news and information via our news feed and jobsgopublic blog
- Online applications - less painful than multiple paper based application forms
- Secure encryption technology to ensure all job seeker information is secure.
- Web services comply with W3C's Web Accessibility Initiative
This is a new resource which is now available to all students and makes available arrange of information and material for career opportunities worldwide.
- Expert Advice for Finding Jobs Overseas
- 80,000 Pages of Career and Employment Resources
- Country Career Guides
- Corporate Profiles
- Worldwide Job and Internship Postings
A new careers resource for students at the university is Destinations
Destinations® can help you to:
- learn more about your career and lifestyle preferences
- recognise what you can offer the world of work and what it can offer you
- think broadly about career options and patterns of work
- pursue career ideas
- identify actions you can take now to start your career journey
www.careers.brad.ac.uk/destinations (opens new window)
MBAmatch - European careers infomediary for MBA students and graduates - featuring MBA jobs!
Careers International
Careers International organises unique, invitation-only Career Events at which top international employers meet and interview high potential graduates and professionals for a wide variety of international positions. These Events focus on different academic backgrounds and work experience, bringing together up to 15 international companies and 200 internationally strictly-selected candidates. For more information about our events and current job opportunities, visit www.careersinternational.com.
MBA-Exchange.com is the reference career website for international business professionals. 100,000 business school students and alumni use our services to:
- Participate in online recruitment events
- Search international MBA jobs and set job alerts
- Enter career profile and attach CV/résumé to be searchable by recruiters, and identified for specific opportunities
- Research companies, view online presentations, listen to webcasts, etc.
Having gone through the selection process of the world-leading business schools and later obtained their business degree, they represent a high-quality and unique pool of candidates for management positions. To register please go to www.mba-exchange.com
GLOBAL
GLOBAL is a new unique free business magazine featuring articles from some of the world's most prestigious business schools (Wharton, Insead, London Business School, Saïd at Oxford University, Stanford, NYU Stern, IMD, Booth at the University of Chicago)
Go to http://www.globalbusmag.com/ for your free subscription.
Growinfinance.com is a specialized job board for finance and banking professionals worldwide. Financial professionals can register for free on our website www.growinfinance.com, and benefit from our services.
More than 500 banks, other financial institutions and recruiters have advertised their vacancies on our website. Our main business is in Europe and the US, and we are rapidly expanding in Asia.
Business Because
businessbecause.com provides networking + news for the business school world.
Whether you're currently studying at b-school, considering an MBA, looking to recruit talented students or simply interested in the buzz from top business schools internationally, this is a site for you to join.
On the businessbecause.com network you can read and share daily news as well as publish your own stories, videos and business research and connect with other members globally. The service is completely FREE.
Career Gym is a globally-available psychometric test preparation website, launched in 2011 by British and Hungarian online training & e-learning entrepreneurs with a global network of psychologists, career experts and other consultants. Career Gym offers cutting edge psychometric test, aptitude test and job test preparation services, as well as the best possible tools, resources and free information to job seekers and employees wishing to advance in their career.
Career Gym