Personal Development Program

Self Assessment

The Personal Development Program begins with a personal self-assessment, based on Motivation and Interests Inventories, as well as on Personality Traits Inventories and Leadership Tests.

At the beginning of the school year, the Office of Career Services & Corporate Relations offers every student free access to a sophisticated and highly recognized self-assessment inventory and suggests additional self-assessment tools for individual needs and specific requests.

The standard proposed self-assessment tools are the following:

  The Holland's Self Directed Search and the Campbell Interest Inventory tests are designed to help students - mainly undergraduate students - clarify their goals and identify suitable work environments;
  MBTI;
  Emotional Intelligence Tests;
  Leadership Potential tests - mainly for graduate students, often derived from the personality models.

Most of our graduate students use Career Leader Online Assessment tests, followed by an individual debriefing with a career counselor.

The Career Leader program starts with a Business Career Interest Inventory (BCII) to define a "career interest universe". Then it uses the Management and Professional Reward Profile (MPRP) to focus that universe by assessing what motivates the student. Lastly, it suggests an abilities assessment inventory, the Management and Professional Abilities Profile (MPAP), to help the student focus still further by thinking in a systematic way about their business skill strengths and weaknesses and the implications of these strengths and weaknesses for different career paths.



One to One Counseling

The web-based self-assessment is completed by three formal interviews, scheduled throughout the academic year.

  The first interview consists of a debriefing on the self-assessment test. It enables students to clarify their personal interests, motivation and potential;
  The second interview enables students to target the right work environment, companies and jobs for themselves;
  The third interview validates whether students are ready to undergo professional interviews.

Depending on the result of the interview assessment, students may opt to benefit from the guidance of a personal coach, who can either be a mentor or a professional coach.

Personal Marketing Program

Thematic and interactive workshops are scheduled throughout the academic year to help students with all phases of "self-selling" strategy. The topics include:

  Preparing a compelling résumé and cover letter;
  Mastering interview techniques;
  Mastering networking techniques;
  Improving one's communication skills.