Career Services

Welcome to BSE Career Services!

At BSE, our Career Services team provides students and alumni with a portfolio of resources to support their career development and prepare them for their next professional steps.

We also work with employers from a variety of sectors and industries to identify placement opportunities that match the quality and caliber of our Master’s graduates.

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Career Services for Master’s Students

BSE Career Services offers numerous events and training to help students determine what direction they want to take their career in after graduation and help them to achieve it.

At BSE, we are dedicated to helping you explore the different career paths available once you graduate from your Master’s. Our Career Services team will help you explore your options, connect with employers, and teach you the skills you need to stand out in the job market.

Throughout your Master’s, you will have the opportunity to:

Have one-to-one guidance on your future career with BSE Career Counselors
Attend a variety of training sessions and workshops based on career development skills
Access job opportunities through the BSE job portal
Connect with Alumni for advice and mentoring
Attend numerous events with employers from different sectors and industries

We have listed below some of the activities the BSE Career Services team organizes to help you advance your career.

Events

Each year, we bring different employers to campus who are interested in recruiting BSE students. Here are some of the events we held last year:

Career Day

The BSE Career Day allows you to meet and engage with international recruiters, top industry professionals, and BSE Alumni.

Last year, the following companies came to campus for Career Day:

Hear what students and recruiters had to say about the BSE Career Day:

Career Day Online

Exposing you to international organizations and institutions from around the world in a virtual format, the online Career Day was held as a separate event during which the following seven companies presented:

The event was a great success and gave students another opportunity to connect with potential future employers and key figures across a variety of industries.

Data Science Career Day

Interested in a career in data science? This event brings recruiters from the industry together to recruit BSE students.

Alumni Panels

Learn directly from BSE Alumni about their career paths and what they have learnt throughout their professional or academic journey.

Career Talks in

⦁ Central Banking
⦁ Financial Services
⦁ International Organizations
⦁ Consulting
⦁ Data Science

This list of events is based on the previous academic year and may vary slightly each year.

Training Workshops

You will have the opportunity to attend numerous training sessions during your Master’s at BSE. Below are some of the workshops that will be available to you:

⦁ Personal Branding and Communication Skills
⦁ Cover Letter Writing
⦁ Job Interview Training
⦁ Learn how to network
⦁ LinkedIn Training

Mentorship Program

This program provides you with the opportunity to learn from BSE Alumni. You can choose a mentor from our Alumni community who has a career path you are interested in and they will offer you career advice and guidance in a structured mentorship process. This service is also available once you have graduated and become an alum.

One-to-One Career Guidance

Our full-time Career Consultants offer personalized support throughout the year to help you define your career goals, develop a job search strategy, and refine your interview skills. One-on-one sessions with your Career Consultant may include:

Career Strategy Development
Guidance on Job Offers and Application Process
CV and Cover Letter Review
Mock Interviews

Career Services for Alumni

Support from the BSE Career Services team does not stop once you graduate! We are dedicated to supporting you once you have graduated from your Master’s at BSE and throughout your career, no matter where it takes you!

Check out some of the activities we have been doing with our alumni recently:

Personalized Career Guidance

Career Services can offer you personalized advice about how to advance your career, we are here to help! Our Career Counselors can support you with any of the following:
⦁ Guidance for changing careers
⦁ CV guidance
⦁ How to boost your LinkedIn profile
⦁ Gain visibility in the job market
⦁ Expand your professional network

Book your personalized career session here

BSE Career Center

⦁ Receive personalized job offers
⦁ Use the career development tools
⦁ Find talent for your organization

Connect with Other BSE Alumni

Sign up to the BSE Alumni platform and the BSE Alumni and Friends LinkedIn group to keep up to date with the latest news and events for BSE Alumni:

BSE Community Platform
Alumni & Friends LinkedIn group: https://www.linkedin.com/groups/2108032/

Mentoring Program

Enhance your career with the BSE Mentoring Program. Alumni learn from each other and their career experiences through this program where you can sign up to be a mentor, a mentee, or both!

Read more about the Mentoring program and how you can sign up.

Professional Development Webinars

Every year we organize a variety of webinars aimed at helping BSE Alumni enhance their careers and grow professionally. Below are some examples of the webinars we have held recently:

From Interview to Offer: Strategies for Success and Negotiation.
How to Transition to a Leadership Role.
Career Change and Transition: Navigating New Pathways.

Have a look at our upcoming webinars here.

Career Services for Recruiters

At BSE, we are dedicated to connecting employers with the right candidates.

The Career Services team hosts a variety of events designed to connect recruiters with our Master’s students!

We can help you to organize the following:

Post job offers and internship opportunities through BSE Career Center.
Conduct interviews at BSE on campus.
Visit BSE for a recruitment talk.
Participate in a recruiting event or panel discussion.
Meet the Career Services team to discuss your specific recruitment needs.

Candidate Profiles

Master’s graduates with advanced training in economic analysis and theory.

The Barcelona School of Economics has an acknowledged reputation for excellence in research and teaching, which attracts talented students from more than 50 countries. All of our Master’s graduates acquire a set of core competencies that qualify them for challenging jobs in both the public and private sectors.

Hard Skills

⦁ Analytical tools
⦁ Statistical methods
⦁ Modeling and forecasting techniques

Soft Skills

⦁ Experience collaborating with colleagues of diverse professional and cultural backgrounds
⦁ Ability to work under pressure and multiple deadlines

Specializations

Each program of study has its own specialized focus that may fit the particular needs of your organization:

Competition and Market Regulation

⦁ Understand regulation theory and models, in particular, the basic regulatory framework of main industrial sectors
⦁ Master the fundamentals of competition law and its sources
⦁ Employ economic analysis to provide advice in competition policy cases
⦁ Write technical reports that synthesize real data analysis, relevant economic literature, and personal judgment
⦁ Present cases in public, developing specific skills for discussion and arguments from different points of view

Data Science Methodolgy

⦁ Ability to develop new methodologies and algorithms
⦁ Expertise in modern computational, high-dimensional and simulation-based Statistics and Machine Learning
⦁ Able to evaluate the opportunities of data-driven value creation within companies and organizations
⦁ Proficiency in database management systems and distributed processing in a cloud computing environment
⦁ Effective communication of data analysis results

Economics of Energy, Climate Change, and Sustainability

⦁ Understand how energy markets are organized and the challenges and opportunities associated with the energy transition
⦁ Build short- and long-run economic models of the energy transition
⦁ Ability to analyze and evaluate the cost and benefits of alternative energy and environmental regulations
⦁ Understand economic concepts and frameworks associated with the analysis and tracking of sustainability goals

Financial Economics

⦁ Understand the theory and practice of price formation in financial markets
⦁ Leverage econometric and statistical tools to perform empirical research
⦁ Analyze problems of managing banks and other financial institutions using economic theory
⦁ Price and hedge derivatives and complex financial instruments in a dynamic setting
⦁ Measure and manage financial risks

Macroeconomic Policy and Financial Markets

⦁ Gain a deep understanding the economic theory behind macroeconomic and financial market models
⦁ Produce forecasts using advanced econometric tools
⦁ Evaluate policy using numerical methods and simulation techniques
⦁ Design and conduct independent research projects
⦁ Write technical and executive reports and present research results to clients or to the public

Data Science for Decision Making

⦁ Provide adequate data analysis for decision-making problems in research, governments, firms, international organizations and NGOs
⦁ Analyze the decision-making problem through the combination of applied data science and economics frameworks
⦁ Understand the programming skills necessary to extract data from any source including text, images, social networks, geocodes and maps
⦁ Ability to approach problems from different angles and to be aware of complementarities in knowledge on interdisciplinary teams

Economics

⦁ Understand theoretical and empirical approaches, from foundation to applications and policy
⦁ Perform technically demanding analysis using a powerful set of analytical and quantitative tools
⦁ Design and conduct independent research projects

Economics of Public Policy

⦁ Understand the economic theory behind the design and evaluation of public policies
⦁ Identify causal effects of policy on economic behavior
⦁ Perform policy analysis using advanced empirical tools
⦁ Contextualize design and implementation of policies within institutional frameworks
⦁ Make policy recommendations based on a multidisciplinary approach
⦁ Design and conduct independent research projects

International Trade, Finance, and Development

⦁ Gain a deep understanding of the economics of international trade, finance, and development
⦁ Apply economic concepts to pressing policy issues, especially those related to growth, economic stability, and poverty
⦁ Analyze data both in cross-sections and time-series using statistical and econometric techniques
⦁ Design and conduct independent research projects
⦁ Deliver reports on policy outcomes to a diverse range of clients

Visit the BSE Campus and Recruit Our Talented Students

Here are some of the events that you can get involved with:

Career Day

This one-day event allows recruiters to present their company or institution and talk directly to students in the networking sessions. This event is held at our campus in Barcelona and also online. It also provides you with the opportunity to organize case study sessions and one-to-one meetings with candidates.

Data Science Methodology Industrial Practicum

Each year, students from the Master’s program in Data Science Methodology can complete an industrial practicum. If your organization is interested in hiring Data Science students for this experience, please get in touch!

Recruitment Talks

Organize a recruiter talk with our talented students. Present your organization, values, culture, and recruitment process structure, and even include exercises and case studies for students. Sessions can be either online or on-site at the BSE campus.

Office Visits

If you would like to hear more about BSE and the Master’s students you can hire, there is also the possibility to organize students visits to your organization.

Please contact a member of our Career Services Team to learn more about recruiting talented students from BSE.

Why Employers Hire BSE Graduates

Manager - Accenture Consulting (Barcelona)

Tommaso Meneghini

Students involved in this program bring the fresh air to the consultancy environment and to the projects that we have ongoing. What we are looking for are people and talent from all over the world because diversity makes a real difference.”

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Senior Consultant - Frontier Economics (UK)

Pablo González

The BSE gives a good combination of thorough economic skills and applied economics skills which are useful for our work.

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Head of the ODI Fellowship Scheme - Overseas Development Institute (UK)

Robin Sherbourne

Employers who are after (skills) like how to survive and become effective in a very difficult environment; how to work with a team of completely different people from a very different culture, possibly a different language to the one (they have) grown up with, if you are looking for those sort of people, the graduate school here provides very good candidates.

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