A postgraduate degree should do more than add a line to your CV. It should sharpen your professional story, expand your network, and give you evidence of what you can do under pressure, with real stakeholders and at the level global employers expect.
That’s the idea behind IE University’s Talent & Careers approach: a two-fold commitment to students and companies, designed to help you build a distinctive profile while staying close to what the market is actually hiring for.
Career services that feel personal, not generic
IE’s Talent & Careers team describes itself as a group of “professional door-openers” and the structure of their support reflects that: it’s not just access to resources, it’s guidance with momentum.
As a master’s student, you can tap into a combination of:
- One-on-one sessions with a Career Advisor to clarify goals, define a strategy and translate your strengths into a coherent professional profile.
- Sector-specific drop-in sessions (short, focused meetings with specialized advisors) to pressure-test your positioning for a specific industry, role, interview, or opportunity.
- Workshops and career education sessions across the year: practical skill-building designed to help you move faster and more confidently when opportunities appear.
- The IE Career Portal, positioned as a centralized toolkit with curated guides, resources, platform access, events and a job board for the IE community.
In short: you’re not left to “figure it out” alone. The system is built to help you define your direction.
Partnerships that bring top employers into your orbit
Career growth is partly skill and partly proximity: the closer you are to decision-makers, the faster doors open. IE leans into that proximity through its relationships with international companies and high-contact recruiting moments.
A standout example is the IE Careers Forum 2025, hosted at IE Tower, which brought together recruiters from 100 leading multinationals to connect with students and graduates. Companies listed among participants include Amazon, Bain & Company, LVMH, L’Oréal, Roche, PwC, EY, Salesforce, Celonis, Santander, BBVA, Intesa Sanpaolo, Bertelsmann, BMC and others.
IE University also reported recognition tied to employability, stating it was ranked 18th worldwide in the Times Higher Education Global Employability Ranking 2025, which is based on recruiter perspectives. The bigger point is not the number, it’s the ecosystem: structured career advising on one side, and active employer engagement on the other, so your progress isn’t happening in isolation from the market.
A real case: solving a live business challenge with Samsung
For many postgraduate students, the most convincing career signal isn’t what you studied, it’s what you shipped.
IE’s “Solutions for Samsung: AI Capstone Project” is a clear illustration of how real-world work can look inside an IE master’s experience. In the Capstone Samsung Business Challenge, student teams delivered consultancy-style solutions, moving from diagnosis to recommendations to a final pitch presented to decision-makers.
One team focused on a practical customer-service bottleneck: high volumes of repetitive queries, often arriving outside business hours. Their proposed AI chatbot aimed to automate responses for common issues like troubleshooting, warranties and product questions. IE reports the concept cut total incoming queries by 39% and reduced response times by up to an hour, the kind of outcome that turns a classroom project into a credible portfolio piece.
Think beyond the classroom
If you’re choosing a postgraduate program because you want career acceleration, look closely at what happens outside the lecture hall: advising, employer access and applied projects that prove you can deliver.
Explore IE University’s master’s programs, learn more about Talent & Careers support and start your application.