Accelerator MBA (London)

Careers services included in your MBA

Kickstart your career transformation before you arrive

At WBS, you don’t need to wait until you start your MBA to begin transforming your career.

Your Pre-arrival Career Programme will set you up for success, ensuring you enter the MBA with clarity, confidence, and momentum. Delivered online, this four-part series empowers you to define your goals, refine your personal brand, and master the essential tools to kick start your career plans.

Your Pre-arrival Career sessions include:

• Career Design Thinking - explore your aspirations and map out the possibilities before your MBA begins
• LinkedIn for Strategic Networking & Visibility - Discover how to leverage digital tools and platforms to elevate your visibility and job search strategy
• Storytelling for the MBA Journey - Laying the groundwork for effective communication and personal brand building throughout the programme, you'll learn to craft compelling narratives that showcase your unique value and leadership potential
• Careers Tools & Online Resources Bootcamp - Discover the platforms and resources that will support your career journey at WBS and beyond.

Customisable career pathways

Every MBA journey is unique. That’s why we offer you tailored career pathways designed to meet your specific career goals. Whether you're looking for accelerated career progression, planning a bold career transition, or looking to launch your entrepreneurial venture, we’ll work with you to provide a personalised action plan to help you realise your ambitions.

Discover the career pathway that fits your goals:

I’m looking to advance my career

I’m looking to make a career transition

I want to build my own venture

Your chosen career pathway is just the starting point. No matter which route you select, career progression, career transition, or entrepreneurship, you’ll have access to all activities across every pathway. This means you can explore, learn, and benefit from the full breadth of opportunities available.

Every MBA student completes the Leadership Accelerator module and the Spotlight diagnostic, ensuring you develop the self-awareness, adaptability, and leadership skills needed to thrive in any context. These experiences are core to your journey, giving you the tools to lead with confidence and impact.

Your Digital Career Hub

Your digital career hub is your go-to resource for career development throughout your MBA journey, providing you with 24/7 access to powerful tools, expert resources, and MBA-specific guidance. Access tailored job opportunities, polish your CV, master interviews, and explore market insights, all designed to help you stand out and succeed.

Inside your Digital Career Hub, you’ll find:

• MBA Job postings 
• WBS CareersPlus website packed with resources covering all aspects of career development 
• MBA Careers Guide - an online, interactive bitesize careers course specifically designed for our MBA students
• Self-assessment psychometric tools
• Interview preparation
• CV and Cover Letter feedback
• Pay negotiation video workshop
• Business journals and databases such as Marketline via the University of Warwick library. 

Your customisable career pathways

Pathway 1: Advance your career

Whether you're targeting your next promotion or preparing to step into senior leadership, we’ll help you unlock your full potential.

Spotlight: Discover your leadership blueprint

You’ll kickstart your MBA journey with Spotlight, a cutting-edge development tool grounded in neuroscience and trusted by Olympic athletes and FTSE 100 leaders. You’ll explore your mindset, uncover behavioural preferences, and learn how to harness your strengths to lead with impact.

This powerful diagnostic tool deepens your self-awareness and boosts adaptability, both essential traits for senior leadership. The insights you gain will shape your growth throughout the MBA and beyond, enriched further by the immersive Leadership Accelerator module.

Leadership Accelerator: Develop your future leadership brand

Giving you the time to fully focus on your leadership skills, this transformative module challenges conventional thinking and invites you to reimagine leadership. Through a blend of cutting-edge research, experiential learning, and real-world application, you’ll:

• Explore the essence of effective leadership in today’s complex world
• Reflect on your leadership style and values
• Develop your personal leadership brand
• Learn how to lead with purpose, resilience, and impact.

From day one, you’ll see how great leadership drives organisational success, and how you can be the catalyst for that change.

Access personalised coaching sessions

As part of your personalised careers support, you’ll receive:

• Unlimited career consultations with our highly trained CareersPlus specialists, ready to support you at every stage of your MBA journey
• 3 x one-hour coaching sessions with expert coaches from the WBS Leadership Coaching Panel.

Our leadership coaches bring real-world experience from senior roles and will help you master challenges such as:

• Transitioning confidently from team member to manager
• Navigating difficult conversations with impact
• Managing competing priorities under pressure
• Building credibility with senior stakeholders
• Developing your authentic leadership style.

And coaching isn’t just limited to CV reviews or interview prep. You’ll be surprised at the breadth of topics we can explore together, including:

• Balancing the MBA with life
• Thriving in challenging work environments
• Job crafting for fulfilment
• Influence & visibility in your organisation
• Leveraging LinkedIn for career growth
• Navigating workplace politics
• Salary negotiation strategies
• Maximising your Project & Dissertation for career impact.

Transformative workshops

Throughout your MBA, you’ll have access to workshops designed to elevate your leadership impact so you can take your career to the next level. You’ll explore who you are as a leader, strengthen your personal brand, and build confidence to thrive in complex workplace dynamics. Workshops include:

• Who am I?
• Taking It Up a Gear: Career Progression
• Knowing Me, Knowing You
• Finding Your Voice: Personal Brand and Getting Noticed (For Promotion)
• Salary Negotiation and More
• Courageous Conversations: Managing Conflict with Confidence
• Leading Change: Driving Success in Your Organisation.

Building your network 

Your MBA isn’t just about knowledge, it’s about connections too. With access to exclusive LinkedIn groups, WhatsApp communities, and discussion forums, you’ll build a personalised network that fits your career goals, interests, and location.

• Join as many groups as you like - whether by sector, region, or interest
• Attend dedicated events featuring industry speakers, sector insights, and professional development opportunities
• Connect with peers across MBA cohorts and broaden your global perspective through events held at the Warwick campus and WBS London.

Expert insights

You’ll have plenty of opportunities to gain insider perspectives from leaders who’ve shaped industries and driven change. Previous expert panels have featured:

• Danny Kerry - Performance & Leadership Consultant
• Chris Meeking - CEO, Avtura
• Susan Robson - Strategy Director, Women's Engineering Society
• David Wetton - Founder & CEO, Spirit in Work
• Maya Welford - DE&I Speaker and podcast host
• Pete Lindsay - Co-Founder, Mindflick
• Alistair Crawford - Managing Consultant, Orchard Consulting.

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Pathway 2: Transition your career

Changing direction isn’t just about finding a new role - it’s about redefining who you are as a professional and positioning yourself to thrive in a new environment. With dedicated career support throughout your MBA, you’ll gain the clarity and confidence to redefine your direction and transition seamlessly into the next stage of your career.

Spotlight: Discover your leadership blueprint

Your journey begins with Spotlight, an elite leadership tool grounded in neuroscience and proven with Olympic athletes and FTSE 100 leaders. Spotlight will help you understand how to adapt and thrive through change, explore your mindset and behavioural preferences, identify how your strengths shift in new environments, and develop strategies to consistently perform at your best.

These insights will serve as a foundation throughout your MBA, guiding your career transition and will be revisited during your immersive Leadership Accelerator module, where you’ll explore what effective leadership looks like in new roles and contexts.

Access personalised coaching sessions

As part of your personalised careers support, you’ll receive:

• Unlimited career consultations with our highly trained CareersPlus specialists, ready to support you at every stage of your MBA journey
• 3 x one-hour coaching sessions with expert coaches from the WBS Leadership Coaching Panel.

Our specialist coaches bring expertise in areas such as salary negotiation, supporting neurodivergent leaders, and sector‑specific knowledge in consulting, finance/fintech, and non‑executive roles.

Beyond CV reviews and interview prep, coaching can help you tackle:

• Balancing the MBA with life
• Career confusion
• Dealing with career change
• Influence and visibility
• LinkedIn optimisation
• Navigating redundancy
• Salary negotiation strategies
• Strategic networking
• Accessing the hidden job market
• Leveraging your Strategic Consulting Project or Dissertation for career impact.

Transformative workshops

Our workshops are designed to help you navigate change with clarity and confidence. They’ll support you in refining your professional identity, help you to reconnect with your strengths, and show you how to communicate your value in a new context. Workshops include:

• Who am I?
• Taking It Up a Gear: Career Transition
• Connecting to Success
• Knowing Me, Knowing You
• Finding Your Voice: Personal Brand and Getting Noticed (For Transition)
• Interview with Impact
• Salary Negotiation and More
• Consulting Experience Weekend.

Networking with Industry

At WBS, networking with industry isn’t just an opportunity, it’s a cornerstone of your MBA experience. Every conversation, every connection, every event is designed to help you unlock opportunities and accelerate your career transformation.

Here’s how we’ll connect you with industry:

• Sector Connector: London Alumni Networking Event - Tap into our powerful alumni network, a community of leaders and innovators ready to share insights and help turn your ambition into achievement.
• Senior industry speakers, panels and guest lectures - Hear directly from those already shaping the future. From boardroom strategies to disruptive innovations, their stories will inspire and inform your next move.
• Executive search firm collaboration - Gain insider knowledge on recruitment trends and leadership pathways through exclusive events, both online and in person.
• Company visits - Discover the inner workings of leading firms in the finance, technology, and consulting sectors. These visits give you a unique opportunity to experience company culture first-hand, observe how teams collaborate, and gain insights into the values and practices that drive success.
• Industry-focused Employer Relations drop-ins - Connect with our Employer Relations team through informal drop-in sessions to uncover hiring trends, industry expectations, and strategies to help you stand out.
• MBA Careers Fair at The Shard - In Term 3, connect with global employers at our flagship careers fair, hosted in collaboration with another top business school.
• Dubai case challenge - An opportunity for you to demonstrate your strategic leadership skills, collaborate across international cultures, and deliver impactful, innovative solutions to a real-world challenge from a leading global company. Winning teams will be rewarded with a trip to Dubai, including a visit to the company’s headquarters. 

Building your network 

Your MBA isn’t just about knowledge, it’s about connections too. With access to exclusive LinkedIn groups, WhatsApp communities, and discussion forums, you’ll build a personalised network that fits your career goals, interests, and location.

• Join as many groups as you like - whether by sector, region, or interest
• Attend dedicated events featuring industry speakers, sector insights, and professional development opportunities
• Connect with peers across MBA cohorts and broaden your global perspective through events held at the Warwick campus and WBS London.

Case competitions  

Case competitions are your chance to step into the spotlight, test your skills against the best, and gain exposure to leading companies, new industries, and top MBA talent from across the globe. They’re not just a competition, they’re the perfect platform to showcase your problem‑solving ability, strategic thinking, and leadership potential.

WBS MBA participants have previously represented the school in a diverse range of high‑profile competitions hosted by world‑renowned business schools, including:

• The Hult Challenge in London, San Francisco and Dubai  
• The Nespresso Sustainability Challenge  
• The McKinsey Business Challenge 
• The RSM Private Equity Challenge 
• The annual Financial Times MBA Quiz.

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Pathway 3: Build your venture

Ready to turn your big idea into a thriving business? At WBS, we champion entrepreneurial ambition with a rich ecosystem of support. Whether you're refining your concept or scaling your startup, you'll find everything you need, from expert-led drop-in clinics to the immersive 12-month Warwick Enterprise Start-up Programme. It’s your launchpad to build, test, and grow your venture with confidence.

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Create connections that matter

Entrepreneurship thrives on collaboration and fresh perspectives. At WBS, you’ll be able to build a network that reaches across industries and borders, opening doors to new opportunities. From face-to-face events held at our Warwick campus and WBS London to dynamic online communities, you’ll be able to tap into a powerful mix of peer support, industry insight, and professional development.

We host a wide range of groups, via LinkedIn and WhatsApp, tailored to career goals, interests, and location. Each network hosts dedicated events, where you can access sector insights, hear from speakers from industry, access careers guidance and professional development opportunities. You can join as many as many groups as you like to start building meaningful relationships to support your career growth.

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Additional careers services

We’ve created a leadership and development programme that is both integrated and comprehensive but if you’d like to focus even further on your career, you can choose to access enhanced career services for an additional cost: 

• Additional session with a coach from our WBS Coaching Panel. You can choose one session for £125, three sessions for £350 or a total of six sessions for £675
• A range of online interactive self-assessment tools
• One-to-one sector specialist consultations. Experts have experience in areas including consulting, marketing, manufacturing, engineering, entrepreneurship, banking and finance, SMEs, energy, leisure and retail, property management and construction, science and technology, education and social care, government, defence and security, utilities and pharmaceuticals. These are £125 per session
• Access to our award-winning WBS Global Mentoring Programme. Exclusively for WBS students and alumni, and accredited by Investors in People, our 12-month programme matches mentees with a mentor from our alumni community. You'll match with mentors from a wide range of industries, gain advice and guidance from an experienced professional, grow your network and develop your soft skills.
• Face-to-face masterclasses including Dealing with the Media, Salary Negotiation and Effective Business, to ensure you’re fully equipped to manage your career for the long-term.