POLITECNICO DI MILANO

GRADUATE SCHOOL OF BUSINESS

INTERNATIONAL
FULL TIME MBA
CLASS OF 2018
Career Statistics

POLITECNICO DI MILANO SCHOOL OF MANAGEMENT

INDEX

International Full Time MBA

Career Statistics /4

/8 The Career
Development Center

Career Counselling 4.0

with a Human Touch /9

/10 Post-Graduation
Career Statistics

The Voices of our Alumni

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INDEX

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INTERNATIONAL FULL-TIME MBA
CAREER STATISTICS
A Program for the Leaders of Change, Innovation and Transformation

The International Full-Time MBA at MIP Politecnico di Milano has been designed in official collaboration with more than
20 multinational and Italian companies, offering our students Company Sponsorships and Project Work, as well as job
opportunities. This strong connection to the business world allows our students to apply the theory learnt throughout
the program as well as to make use of a very strong company network from the beginning of the program onwards.

The program places a strong emphasis on innovation, digital transformation and entrepreneurship, as companies
are in need of managers who are business innovators, updated on new technologies, and capable of managing the
processes of innovation and transformation.

The program provides students with cross-functional expertise and flexibility, allowing them to become the managers
of the future.

“MIP Politecnico di Milano has a well-designed MBA program format: a

mix of digital learning, traditional classes, practical boot camps, career
development sessions, and networking opportunities events.
I trusted an MBA would give a boost to my career, and I have already
profited from the experience both professionally and personally. I am now
working in Digital Performance Management department in one of the major
international energy companies. To me, MBA has been worth the investment,
and I trust I will continue having returns from it in the future.”

Izolda Urazgaliyeva, Kazakhstan

International MBA 2018 - Digital Performance Professional at Eni

“When I enrolled at MIP, I had high expectations for both the quality of teaching
and the networking opportunities. I now can say MIP has exceeded my
expectations. It was an amazing experience, working on real-world business
cases with the tutoring of world-class professors was a unique opportunity
to challenge myself. We also had the opportunity to meet, interact and learn
firsthand from leaders of prestigious international companies. I enjoyed being
part of a great international community too. I became part of a fantastic group
of people that has enriched me at both the personal and professional level.”

Ralph Gruber, Germany

International Full Time MBA 2018 - Associate Principal Scientist at AstraZeneca

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 CAREER STATISTICS - International Full Time MBA

The Key Figures

1-year 9 3
Intensive program Electives plus International weeks

15 62 83%
International Students from Employed within
Exchange 27 countries 3 months from
Partners around graduation
the world

Class of 2018 profile

Number of participants

41 21
International Italian
Students Students

29.87 27 5.79 years 24

Average Age Countries Average Work Women
represented Experience

“Doing the International Full time MBA at MIP means that since day
1, you get a wider perspective of the world due to the multicultural
environment of your classmates and experienced professors.
Understanding different perspectives boosts your personal and
professional profile in order to handle and manage the right approach
in a globalized context. I strongly believe from my class experience,
this fact will definitely change everyone’s mindset while negotiating,
networking, interacting, breaking stereotypes and even making friends
with people all over the world. The flexibility and the adaptability you
will meet is a must for the challenging and dynamic current business
world.”

Roberto Toro Perez, Peru

International Full Time MBA 2018 - Senior Supply Chain Management Consultant at Nextea

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CAREER STATISTICS - International Full Time MBA

Age
11% 34%
< 26 years 26-29 years

26% 29%
30-32 years > 32 years

Work Experience
42% 35% 23%
3-4 years 5-7 years >7 years

Sector
19% 18% 3% 3%
Manufacturing Consulting/ Tech, Luxury,
& Automotive Professional E-Business Fashion,
Services Retail

5% 16% 5% 8% 23%
Energy, Arts, Culture & Financial Healthcare, Other
Utilities Entertainment Services, Hospitality
Insurance, RE

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 CAREER STATISTICS - International Full Time MBA

Degree
42% 36% 16% 6%
Engineering Economics Humanities/ Sciences
Law

Geographies represented
34% 31% 16% 11%
Italy Latin Asia Europe
America

3% 3% 2%
North Middle Africa
America East

Countries represented
>> Argentina >> El Salvador >> Pakistan
>> Belarus >> Germany >> Peru
>> Bolivia >> Greece >> Poland
>> Brazil >> India >> Portugal
>> Chile >> Italy >> Russian Federation
>> Colombia >> Japan >> Saint Vincent & the Grenadines
>> Costa Rica >> Kazakhstan >> Turkey
>> Ecuador >> Kuwait >> USA
>> Egypt >> Mexico >> Venezuela

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THE CAREER
DEVELOPMENT CENTER
MIP Career Development Center is the first one to adopt the dialogic model for Career Counselling, conciliating the
diagnostic and the educational approaches and founded on the joint responsibility between the consultant and the
user.

Our team of Career Consultants have completed a specific training to define the methodology and develop the skills
necessary for the dialogic Career Counselling.

In line with this model, our team of Career Consultants design a Career Development Program integrated in the
Master calendar with the objective of developing professional skills.

Each candidate follow a highly customised development program, co-creating a personalised career action plan
with his/her Career Consultant.

The long-term and ambitious goal of MIP Career Development Program is to transform our MBA candidates into
Career Leaders, by developing their professional skills and enabling them to manage their career plan and pursue
their professional goals.

The Career Leader Profile

What are the professional skills that make a candidate a Career Leader?

Self-Awareness & Context Analysis

>> Self-evaluation of the current professional profile
>> Analysis of the job market (roles and required competences)
>> Self-detection of development areas according to the targeted role

Career Design
>> Definition of a personalized professionaI goal
>> Definition of a consistent strategy in order to pursue the goal
>> Adaptation of strategies in case of any goal’s change

Planning and Execution

>> Plan a set of specific actions in accordance with the personalized career goal
>> Detection and application of adequate tools to pursue the career plan

SELF-AWARENESS CAREER PLANNING

& CONTEXT ANALYSIS DESIGN & EXECUTION

TRAINING & PROFESSIONAL SKILLS DEVELOPEMENT

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CAREER COUNSELLING 4.0
WITH A HUMAN TOUCH
At MIP, the Career Development Program is empowered by new digital tools for a “Career counselling 4.0”. For
example, the self-profiling and skills assessment on FLEXA are key moments in the candidate professional
development path.

Even more importantly, the digital counselling is balanced with one-to-one meetings with the Career Consultants, to
guarantee full integration and continuity of the career development program.

Our Career Development Center Team

“At the Career Development Center, our main goal is to train tomorrow’s “Career Leader”. The Career
Development program, which we designed exclusively for FT MBA students, has the objective of
developing the competences they need to manage their career plan and pursue their professional
goals. Also, they acquire key skills to succeed in a complex and ever-changing job market.”

Our Team is composed by 8 professionals specialised in Career Counselling with different backgrounds, including
Certified Coaches, experts in Work & Organizational Psychology and Communication with experience in Executive
Search firms as well as HR Departments of large companies.

With a degree in Work and Organizational Psychology and more than 10

years of experience in the Human Resources field as Consultant (recruitment,
assessment and development), I firmly believe that enabling people to
become “entrepreneurs” of their career will create value for the professional
itself and, indirectly, for the entire business community. Through our Career
Consulting Program, we aim to develop career skills for our students in order
to shape their own and personal career path, consistent with their goals and
in an ever changing international job market.

Erika Ortu

With a Master’s Degree in Human Resources management and about 10

years of relevant work experience in HR and Education management, I
operate as a Career Consultant for International Full Time and Executive
MBA Master Programs. My main goal is to help students developing the
career skills they need to define and execute an effective career strategy and
succeed in today’s workplace.

Valentina Di Nenno

A Career Consultant with 9 years of experience in the Education Industry and

a strong passion for HR management and Talent Acquisition. I believe that
the global match of Human Resources is the century’s main challenges for
the success of the business worldwide. Thanks to my international exposure,
including an Exchange Program in China and a Masters’ Degree in UK, I have
developed global vision and intercultural sensitivity, and I enjoy working with
International Talents.

Silvia Folador

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POST-GRADUATION
CAREER STATISTICS
*May 31st, 2019

Mobility and Change

83% 96%
of Graduates seeking of Graduates
employment found a new have been placed
job three months after as of now
graduation

55% 63% 63%

changed job changed transferred
function industry to a different
sector country

Data post-MBA locations

73% 17% 2% 2%
90
located in
% Italy Europe Latin
America
North
America

Europe
2% 2% 2%
Australia Asia Middle
East

Employment sources

61 %
accepted offers sourced by
39
accepted offers
%
Career Service/School sourced by graduates

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POST-MBA INDUSTRIES
& JOB FUNCTIONS OVERVIEW

Industries
6% 21% 17% 2% 10%
Construction Digital/Tech/ FMCG Logistics Pharma/Chemical/
E-Business Cosmetics/Health

8% 16% 2% 12% 6%
Manufacturing Consulting/ Energy/ Luxury/ Financial Services/
& Automotive Professional Utilities Fashion/ Insurance/RE
Services Retail

Job functions
6% 16%
Consulting Finance

23% 6%
Marketing/ Product
Sales Development

6% 16%
R&D/ Strategy/Planning/
Engineering Business Process

27%
Supply Chain/Operations/
Processing

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POST-GRADUATION
CAREER STATISTICS
POST-MBA COMPENSATION – 3 years after graduation

AVERAGE POST-MBA GROSS SALARY*

Invest in your career!

75.000 $ The International Full Time MBA at MIP

*Does not include variable pay or benefits and perquisites
and other guaranteed compensation
Politecnico di Milano guarantees students a
high level of executive education, with great
attention being paid to their investment.
In fact, students can repay this investment
within just one year after Graduation.

Average salary
increase of 58% PBT - Pay back time: 1 YEAR

“After a few years as Digital Marketing Manager for tech startups, I felt
ready for taking a step forward in my professional career and I chose the
International MBA at MIP. It was an amazing experience, which allowed me
to learn from some of the most competent professors in fields such as Big
Data, International Economics, and Statistics. I particularly appreciated the
opportunity to further develop my negotiation, sales and communication skills
through business cases and workshops with top international leaders and
professionals. Working on projects with my colleagues also contributed to
improving my ability to work in diverse teams. After an internship at Google
in London, I have now joined the company as Account Manager working with
partners in Northern Europe.”

Chiara Torterolo, Italy

International Full Time MBA 2018 - Account Manager, Channel Sales at Google

“The MBA career service was continuously in touch

with us during the entire programme.
They organized several one to one meetings which helped me to better
understand the career path I wanted to take in the future. I also received many
internship/job opportunities from them, thanks to their extensive network.
Both, the final internship and the final job offer that I received post-MBA were
through the career service. I still work in the same company (Prysmian), and
have since grown to become the Tender Planning Manager (Project Controls).”

Sumant Sharma, India

International MBA 2016 - Tender Planning Manager (Project Controls) at Prysmian Powerlink

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EMPLOYERS
A selection of the 2018 MBA class employers

>> Astrazeneca >> ENI >> Moncler

>> AVON >> EY >> Nestle
>> British American Tobacco >> Generali >> Novartis
>> Carrefour >> Google >> Ogilvy&Mother
>> Costa Crociere >> Heineken >> René Caovilla
>> Deloitte >> Hyundai >> Whilrpool
>> Edenred >> L’Oreal

Start-ups founded by our students

hiMED is a digital pathology software system based on fractal geometry

hiMED algorithms. It is the result of over 15 years of research & development

by the Michele Rodriguez Foundation. The foundation’s researchers
and developers have created a powerful, flexible software application
Co-founded by for histological and radiological image analysis. Fractal geometry
Nicola Rodriguez, algorithms work properly with complex systems such as cancer, and
Italy they have a better match with diagnoses and patient outcomes than
classical analyses. The technology behind the hiMED software will be a
International Full Time promising tool for the future of digital pathology. hiMED is continuously
MBA 2019 implementing these algorithms, using the software to get data and
publish results in international scientific journals.

VIP SOUL VIP SOUL is a shopping club that offers its members up to 70%
discount on the sale price of prestigious brands of fashion, accessories,
Founded by electronics, home and beauty. The goal of VIP SOUL is to offer its
Faviola Palomino, members a space where they can make their purchases in an easy
Peru and simple way. This includes, among other things, a free subscription,
shipments to numerous destinations within Peru and flexible payment
International Full Time processes, including payment by credit card and cash.
MBA 2011

VOYAGE Voyage is an elegantly-designed, premium quality collection of original

SWIMWEAR swimsuits and trunks made for the modern jetsetter. The brand presents
a unique vision of designer swimwear, melding timeless sophistication
Founded by with the carefree spirit of travel, as evoked by Voyage’s exclusive prints
of vibrant world maps. Voyage’s signature map prints are solely designed
Brittany Harris,
in-house. Taking a bold step away from traditional swimwear motifs, the
USA unique cartographic design represents enjoying the good life without
limits.
International Full Time
MBA 2008

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CAREER STATISTICS - International Full Time MBA

Top recruiters of the past 3 years

>> ABB >> ELECTROLUX >> MICROSOFT
>> ACCENTURE >> ELI LILLY >> ORANGE
>> ADMIRAL GROUP >> EUROFINS BIOLAB >> OTB
>> ALIX PARTNERS >> FERRARI >> PHILIP MORRIS INTERNATIONAL
>> AMAZON >> HILTI >> PHILIPS
>> BCG >> LASTMINUTE >> PIAGGIO GROUP
>> BIP >> LEROY MERLIN >> PIRELLI TYRE
>> BRITISH AMERICAN TOBACCO >> LYRECO >> ROCHE
>> CNH INDUSTRIAL >> MARRIOTT INTERNATIONAL >> SALINI IMPREGILO
>> CREDIT AGRICOLE >> MAX MARA GROUP >> SNAM
>> DANIELI >> MC KINSEY >> TOYOTA MOTOR EUROPE
>> DE LONGHI GROUP >> MEDIAWORLD >> UNICREDIT

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THE VOICES OF
OUR ALUMNI

On Career Change

“My previous background was a rather strictly technical

one (Engineering Physics working as researcher).
The MBA has given me the opportunity to apply
my set of analytical and problem solving skills to a
business background. I have been able to learn in a
360-degree way: from teachers, business speakers and
classmates.”

Oscar Mariani, Italy

International Full Time MBA 2008
Global Retail Operations Director at Gucci

On the Long-Term Investment of an MBA

“The finance industry is increasingly interested in
those with a broader business outlook, hence why it’s
such a good destination for MBAs wanting to change
career direction.
Finance needs people with knowledge of
management, marketing, strategy, and technology.
Being good with numbers isn’t enough. The industry
is customer-centric so to succeed you need to
understand all areas of the customer journey.
The real value of an MBA is the access to so many
different people and their ideas. Be a sponge and
absorb everything-this way you’ll find many more
potential career pivots.”

Silvio Piserchia, Italy

International Full Time MBA 2008
Vice President/Senior Business Leader – Global Prepaid at Mastercard

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