Weekend MBA: Career impact

Through our state-of-the-art online learning platform, The Hub, our team will help you to identify your future goals and take concrete steps to achieve them. We will provide you with tried and tested development tools, the opportunity to reflect upon your experiences, and work with you to devise a plan for your future.

A structured approach to growing your leadership potential and operational effectiveness, the Personal Leadership Journey includes practical exercises, workshops, and one-to-one career coaching sessions, designed to enhance your leadership strengths and address areas for development.

With students from over 40 countries and a wide range of industries, the Weekend MBA is a unique opportunity to create and take advantage of a life-long network of business leaders from around the world. You will gain in-depth, cross-sectoral insight, and learn from expert academics and high calibre alumni working in the industries which most interest you.

We offer a number of professional development workshops catering to your individual needs, covering how to identify opportunities that might be right for you, understanding how to market yourself effectively and developing leadership skills that will be useful during your time on the programme and the rest of your career.

The kind of workshops offered may include:

• Networking skills

• Consulting interview techniques

• Presentation skills

• Public speaking skills

• Elevator pitches for business ideas and yourself

• Mock interviews and assessment centres preparation

As an Imperial College Business School student, you will have access to over 21,000 alumni spanning more than 140 countries, alumni network allows for international connections and access to business leaders across all industry sectors.

The Business School supports a number of student-led career clubs, regional clubs and enterprise clubs that bring together MBA and MSc students with similar areas of career interest. The clubs run a number of events throughout the year that give you the opportunity to:

• Meet other Business School students with similar interests

• Learn from and network with alumni and other professionals

• Build links with relevant employers in the sector

• Learn more about roles available and the skills needed in the industry

Companies that have presented at career clubs events recently include McKinsey, Deloitte, Microsoft, IDEA Pharma, Uber, Johnson & Johnson, SoundCloud and Google.