The IOMBA Career Services provides current students and alumni of the full-time IOMBA program with guidance, tools, resources and opportunities to conduct a successful career search throughout their professional careers. Several of these services are integrated into the regular IOMBA curriculum, and include an overview of the IO field, clarifying career directions, workshops on resume writing and communication skills, expert presentations, and networking events. In addition, Career Services maintains a roster of contacts developed through the IOMBA network that are available to students on request.
Career Services also develops alliances with International Organizations, NGOs, and business and graduate schools to expand opportunities available to IOMBA students and alumni. These include both formal partnerships as well as informal contacts available to students upon request. On a case-by-case basis, Career Services also supports student group initiatives such as conferences, receptions, or activity clubs.
Career Services also works with organizations and companies interested in employing IOMBA students to successfully match student skills with employer needs. In particular, the IOMBA students will be directly exposed to a prominent network of institutions linking junior professionals with the international job market.
Resources of the IOMBA Career Services.
The Career Service Director and the Career Service Specialists identify with each student target sectors and organizations for their job search, find job opportunities, vacancies and possible contacts within the IOMBA network to be activated, follow periodically the progress of each student through personalized counseling and orientation.
The Alumni Network works through web-based, on-line social network facilities, events and informal exchanges to introduce the new IOMBA students into the organizations and companies where the IOMBA graduates work. The Alumni Network is a great way to circulate vacancies and consultancy opportunities ahead of the formal recruitment tools and to get a foot into the door of the main Intergovernmental Organizations.
The IOMBA Ambassadors , managers and senior consultants working for International Organizations and collaborating with the IOMBA direct contacts and individual meetings between students and representatives of the International Organizations are promoted throughout the year through the extensive network of professionals of international organizations affiliated with the Career Service.
For more detailed information on the IOMBA Career Management Process, types of Career Services Events, and to see a sample Career Service Calendar, please visit see the links to the right.
The IOMBA programme career service staff was directly responsible for securing my internship in an international organization in Geneva. I believe that experience was critical in helping me attain the post that I am in now.
