Meet the ... Finance

Another event from our Meet the... series, prepared in cooperation with CEMS Club Prague, took place on 7th November at the premises of the University of Economics Prague. This time we have focused on Finance and were able to meet four very interesting speakers from different areas of this field of practice:

• Marketa Chrustova, Manager, Corporate Finance, PricewaterhouseCoopers
• Radka Kucerova, CFA Director, Avenida Research
• Lukas Puda, Manager, Global Markets, HSBC Bank Plc
• Jakub Zidon, Manager of Energy Derivatives Sales, Erste Group Bank

Great track record, international experience and seniority of our speakers, together with relatively small size of the audience alowed for very open discussion and gave room to a lot of questions. The environment was so friendly that even speakers gave each other questions and commented what others said. The event was concluded with an open discussion and networking at Sklep restaurant near-by the event location. All speakers very much appretiated a chance to listen to and understand what made their colleagues career succesful one.


Next Meet the... event will take place on 28th November and focus on the area of Human Resources. A topic which might not only be interesting for those who consider this as their dream-job, but basicaly to anyone as you will have a chance to ask high profile HR professionals all the questions you always wanted to get answered.

We are looking forward to meeting you at one of our next events.

Your CEMS Alumni Association

CEMS Online Store Open

The Student Board would like to draw your attention to a unique opportunity to buy CEMS-branded merchandise via the CEMS online store. In the online store you can find more information about the CEMS-branded mugs, iPhone covers, T-shirts and accessories this semester. You can collect your order at the Career Forum in Budapest on the 18th or 19th of November. In case you cannot attend the Career Forum, you can also pick up your merchandise at the Annual Events in Lisbon.


Please visit the store and choose products to be perfect CEMS ambassadors with the CEMS coffee mug on your desk or the CEMS T-shirt in the gym! The online shop will be open till the 25th of October; in this time you can place your orders either via PayPal or you can use your credit card. If you have any question, please contact the organizers at online-store@cemsclub.org

CEMS Sauna events this winter

As the weather gets chilly it is time to start thinking about some warmer places to gather. Besides our alumni drinks we would like to invite you to sauna which has already become a sort of tradition during the last two winters.

Meet the fellow alumni in a "warm atmosphere" and have a beer or dinner together afterwards.

Just come and enjoy the realaxing time! There is not only the dry (Finnish) sauna but also a small pools with cold water and a room for chill out. Towels are provided.

WHEN

The sauna "meetings" this winter will take place on the following dates:

• #1: Th 3 Nov (registration at Facebook) cancelled
• #2: Th 24 Nov (registration at Facebook)
• #3: Tu 22 Dec (registration at Facebook) changed date
• #4: Tu 10 Jan (registration at Facebook) changed date
• #5: Tu 7 Feb (registration at Facebook) changed date

We will always start at 7 pm.

WHERE - same as the last year, i.e. Svet pod Palmovkou.

REGISTRATION You may register at our FB group (see the links above) or just send me an e-mail (vojtech.oplestil@gmail.com).

FEE Note that those of you who have paid their CEMS Alumni membership fee will get 100 CZK or so discount on the entrance fee. The others will pay the whole entrance fee. We will make sure that the entrance fee will not be higher than a usuall fee (which is approximately 200 CZ) - so dont be afraid of paying 1000 CZK for one hour long sweating :-).

Should you have any questions or suggestions (e.g. another sauna venue) just let me know.

Looking forward to sweating with you :-).

Vojtech

2011 FT Ranking: CEMS Global Alliance one again on the podium

Dear alumni
let me share with yout a great news concerning CEMS FT Ranking.

Dear CEMS community,


The CEMS MIM is this year ranked the n°2 pre-experience Master’s in Management in the world in the global Financial Times ranking. 17 CEMS member schools appear in total, including 8 in the top 25, underlying the excellence of the CEMS alliance and all its members on the M.Sc. segment. Congratulations should be extended to our Swiss member school the University of St Gallen, whose Master in Strategy and International Management was ranked n°1 for 2011.

Of particular significance to our alliance is the confirmation that the CEMS MIM is top in the 3-year ranking, which covers the period 2009-11 during which the programme has been ranked 1st, 2nd and 2nd. If we also take into account the fact that the CEMS MIM has featured permanently in the top 3 since the ranking began in 2005 we can be doubly proud of these years of outstanding achievement.

The CEMS MIM emerges once more as the n°1 programme for combined international results (international faculty, student and board diversity, alumni mobility and international course experience).

This year, the CEMS MIM improved in 8 categories of the ranking compared with the 2010 edition, including an “Aims Achieved” score of 86% and a Careers Rank gain of 9 places. You can look at all details on the CEMS homepage (including the full ranking table and report).

Congratulations to all of you for the excellent results – with a special mention to the CEMS Class of 2008 that was surveyed by the FT this year.

Warm regards

François Collin
CEMS Executive Director

New issue of the CEMS Magazine

This latest issue focuses on Corporate Social Responsibility as a new world of business, from the point of view of schools, students, companies and of course Alumni committed in the sector.

You can read the electronic version and also view back issues.

(You have not received it? Make sure your data are up to date on your profile on www.cems.org!)

Summer in the City - CEMS Alumni Drink

Alone and sweating in the summer city? So how about having a drink together? How about on Thursday July 28? Place to be determined (any tips?).



Looking forward to meeting you!

Offer Internships to CEMS students

This is an excerpt from the CAA Newsletter May 2011.

Do you remember when you were looking for your CEMS internship abroad? It may not have been easy to find the right one that met your expectations, but it was probably a very important experience at the beginning of your career which helped you to be where you are right now.
If you have ever asked yourself what you could do to give something back to CEMS, the answer is very easy: Post the internship offers of your company to the CEMS Job Market!

There are two options to post offers to the JobMarket.

• The preferred one is that your company registers and accesses the job market with its own company login. Corporate Partners can also screen the CVs of students and alumni.
• The other option is for you to directly access the Job Market using as company profile "CEMS Alumni offers for students". Simply access the JobMarket as a Company with the login name "alumni@cems.org" and password "offersfromalumni". On the left hand side under "Positions" -> "New position" -> "Internship", you can enter your offers. Please note: since the offer will be displayed with the company name: "CEMS Alumni offers for students" it is important that you put your company name at the beginning of the field "Position". In the fields "Contact name" and "Email", please put your name and your @cemsmail.org address. Otherwise we cannot validate your offer.

Video message from Executive Committee of CAA

Elected for a two-year mandate in December 2010, the new team of Alberto Frisiero (President), Torsten Röwekamp (Vice-President), Blandine Avot (Secretary General) and Nicola Spano (Treasurer) present themselves.

CEMS Alumni Association Executive Committee presentational film from CEMS on Vimeo.

CEMS Alumni Drink

Come and join us for an informal gathering of hard working alumni, meet some alumni you haven't met yet and also - let us celebrate some of the weddings in our community :-).
We will meet on Thursday May 26 at 19:30 in Jedova chyse.

The CEMS Alumni Sailing weekend

LC Netherlands kindly invites you all to join the longest standing CEMS Alumni event: The CEMS Alumni Sailing weekend in the Netherlands.

This year's event is marking the 18th anniversary of the Sailing weekend. So please join many others that have participated in the past, and enjoy the event yourself!

Find out more details in the official invitation (pdf, 334 kB).