Advancing senior careers
Our EMBA students are experienced, ambitious and dedicated to achieving the highest levels of personal and professional growth. You may be looking to advance your career within your current organisation. You may be keen to switch industries, or you may have plans to begin your own venture. Whichever track you’re on, our Careers team offers the individual support you need to gain maximum ROI from your degree.
EMBA career impact
Want to know what a typical Cambridge Judge Business School EMBA career journey looks like?
There isn’t one. Our EMBA cohorts come to us from every possible background – engineering, healthcare, startups, the charity sector, finance, pharma, law and more and their stories once they leave us are equally diverse.
Many progress to senior leadership roles within existing firms and others use newfound knowledge and networks to transition to a different sector or found their own venture.
Careers guidance throughout your career lifecycle
Achieve a more nuanced understanding of your career path. Our targeted career development programme will ensure you:
- develop the knowledge and skills to sustain you throughout your entire career lifecycle
- advance your ideas and explore specific areas of interest through individual advisory sessions
- learn to manage relationships leveraging your peer group and our alumni community, and build new connections with recruiters
Career development programme
We’ll work with you through your entire EMBA career lifecycle. Make the most of your Cambridge advantage.
Cambridge Judge Business School Careers provides:
Knowledge and skill development
- Consolidate career planning.
- Gain sector insights.
- Focus on applications and interviews.
- Succeed in negotiations.
Individual advisory
- Enjoy 1:1 advisory.
- Explore specific areas of interest.
- Target ideal roles.
Relationship management
- Leverage your peers and clubs.
- Connect with Cambridge alumni.
- Build meaningful connections with recruiters.
Recruitment events
Recruiters hold our EMBA graduates in high regard. We’re pleased to welcome some of the world’s most influential and sought-after organisations to campus.
Networking: connect and engage
As a Cambridge EMBA student, you’ll build relationships with a vibrant global alumni body, recruiters, innovators, business angels, VC companies, entrepreneurs and more. Immersed within your own talented and driven cohort, you’ll also become part of the wider University of Cambridge network and College system, developing professional relationships and personal friendships to last a lifetime.
Stories of EMBA career impact
Programme news
How Cambridge collaboration spurs breakthroughs
An article in Nature on the Nobel-winning Laboratory of Molecular Biology began as a dialogue between a student and lecturer at the Executive MBA programme.
AI and technology
Cambridge Judge alumnus on breaking barriers in cancer care
Cambridge Judge Business School alumnus Luis Garcia-Gancedo (EMBA 2019), Senior Director of Oncology Digital Health Strategy at Evinova (AstraZeneca), discusses barriers inhibiting equitable cancer treatment.
Student and alumni news
EMBA graduate named one of the Best and Brightest by Poets & Quants
Alistair Wye, an Executive MBA (EMBA) graduate of Cambridge Judge Business School (EMBA 2022), is named to the Best & Brightest Executive MBAs list of 2024 by business school publication Poets & Quants.
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FAQs
At Cambridge Judge Business School, you’ll develop the skills, experience and confidence to accelerate your career. Find out more about the careers support offered in our careers video.
A huge range of business-related events take place every week in Cambridge, and as an EMBA student you are more than welcome to join them. The best way to find out what’s going on is to log into your virtual learning environment (VLE) and check your mail for Business School and College news.