TiasNimbas Business School is connected to the business world in several ways.
In addition to the business contacts we can provide our master students through our Career Services, we also have a specific division at TiasNimbas that is devoted to creating tailor-made programmes for companies. In fact, this year TiasNimbas Business School was ranked No. 1 in the Benelux and 36th in the world for our Company Specific Programmes in the Financial Times Rankings.
Many Master candidates living outside of Europe ask me if it is possible to find a job in The Netherlands after they have completed the Master programme.
At TiasNimbas we have connections to recruitment companies who coach our students in finding what direction they want to pursue and what kinds of companies are suitable to their career ambitions. One of the recruitment companies, Adams Recruitment, has connections to many international companies in The Netherlands and helps our foreign students with their job search. Our Career Officer, Anne Rust, can provide you with more information on our Career Services.
Further, the Dutch government has recently implemented a new rule that allows foreignors, who come to The Netherlands for study, to extend their residence permit for a year in order to find employment. I am very pleased with this new rule, and so are the current foreign students, as they have more time to find a job they want in the fields of marketing and finance.
Laura Zijlstra started working as the new OTYS Marketing Manager immediately after handing in her thesis project. Now, OTYS Recruiting Technology is one of the biggest Dutch suppliers of recruitment software and is quickly becoming a well-known recruitment knowledge centre.
As Laura was finishing her studies in December 2007, OTYS was setting up its first marketing department. She says, “They invited me (to interview) because of my international background and the specific marketing experience/knowledge I had acquired at TiasNimbas.” Before she entered the Full-Time MA in International Business and Marketing Management, Laura worked as a consultant for “Manpower”. During her studies, she pursued her international interests through an elective at the Guanghua Summer School in China.
OTYS has since opened an office in Minneapolis and London while the office in The Netherlands has grown to the strength of 15 Dutch employees with 15 software developers based in Prague.
Laura says, “My first months have been both challenging and stimulating with projects ranging from complete corporate image rebranding and a client event for 400 customers.”
The road to finding a job can be long and complex, but the process can be very exciting. It is a time of self-exploration, information gathering on the companies you want to approach, and learning to market yourself with the ultimate satisfaction of securing the job you want.
I am Anna Rust, the Coordinator of TiasNimbas Career Services.Throughout the year we are available to assist you in focusing on your career. We encourage you to make use of the services and programmes we offer. I am looking forward to meeting you and assisting you in (re)defining and managing your own career goals. The links below provide more information on the services we offer.
MA International Business and Marketing Management Career Services
As project manager for a new team situated Bangkok, Jeroen Jonkers's first week in the IT department ‘Global Supply’ was an opportunity to use what he learned both from the TiasNimbas experience of working with international students and from lectures on company culture/national culture.
With a bachelor in industrial design, a master in international business and marketing management and a dissertation on idea generation, IT might not seem like the next step. But, as Jeroen explains, "TiasNimbas brought me a different perspective on the world, business life and the people around me. The chance to learn and look around inside a business like NXP (37,000 employees in 21 countries across the world) and an opportunity to work with people on the other side of the globe should not be missed."
After graduation, Jeroen was offered a two-year management traineeship with coaching from ORMIT during 4 challenging projects within interesting companies.
Today he is in the 3rd month of the first project with NXP Semiconductors where his responsibilities include preparing and onboarding new tasks to a team with three main functions for the IT organisation:
Jeroen said, "I now have a better understanding of the business environment and the need and logic for its different strategies."
Martin Pietersen is both the Olympic Marketing Manager Global Marketing for Atos Origin as well as an alumnus from the International Business and Marketing Management Class of 2006.
In January, he returned to the TiasNimbas Utrecht campus to talk about Atos Origin and their important role in the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games. Around 55 TiasNimbas students and alumni attended the presentation where he described how the knowledge he gained from his study has been put into practice in this Olympic project.
Martin started off by introducing Atos Origin as a leading international IT services provider. Atos is also the Worldwide IT Partner and an Official TOP Partner of the International Olympic Committee (IOC). Atos Origin designed and built two main IT systems, which are now fully operational, to run the Beijing Games. The Information Diffusion System will relay results and athlete information to 10,500 athletes and thousands of media representatives. The Games Management Systems will provide accreditation, transportation and accommodation schedules, medical encounters reports, sports qualifications and protocol information.
Martin is involved in the marketing of Atos Origin in the Olympic Games and also told the students about Atos’ sponsored athletes including Theo Bos, a top cyclist from The Netherlands. This global programme is called “Champions & Challengers”. The programme aims to build brand awareness, increase employee engagement, and provide a focus for a wide range of social responsibility.
The first annual TiasNimas Company Day was held on 16 April 2008 in Utrecht with 19 international companies represented: Credit Europe Bank, Adidas/Reebok, Capgemini, Cargill, CN Worldwide, Boer&Croon, Forrester, Ashland, Adam's Multilingual Recruitment, Atos Origin, Sabic Innovative Plastic, SDWorx, Greenwich Consulting, Capgemini, 77 Agency (London), Fairlane, De Lage Landen, Ormit, and Randstad.
About 75 full-time TiasNimbas students attended company presentations to learn more about business career opportunities. In preparation, students were also able to request one-to-one meetings with recruiters by choosing which companies would receive their CVs before the event.
With the sunny weather, quite a few students took a mid-day break to continue their discussions over lunch in the courtyard. Several alumni also joined the event.
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