Career Focus
Employment prospects are rightly one of the biggest concerns of prospective students, but in choosing Oxford Brookes University Business School you are in good hands.
The Accountants in Mentoring scheme (AiM) is designed to help final year UG students make a successful transition between university and full-time employment.
Courses at the Business School are designed with a focus on your career, and delivered by staff who have deep connections into the business world. Features such as work placements, student projects, associate and visiting lecturers, industry visits and many more, combine to provide the best foundation for success in business, whether you are targeting a blue chip company, a public or voluntary sector organisation or perhaps a business of your own.
- American Express
- BBC
- BMW
- Caterpillar
- Hewlett Packard
- IBM
- Innocent
- Microsoft
- Oxford Radcliffe Hospitals NHS Trust
- Panasonic
- Rolls-Royce
- Volkswagen
Innocent Ltd
"It's a pretty daunting thing to ponder, spending an afternoon out of your schedule to tell your business story to students. You imagine lots of disinterested and bored faces, sniggering at the shirt you've chosen (badly).
Rather than dealing with blank looks and yawns however, the biggest challenge during my trip to the Business School turned out to be dealing with all the intelligent questions fired at me. That's a real credit both to the students themselves and also to the teaching and nurturing they have clearly received.
The course lecturers exude huge enthusiasm for their subjects, which has certainly rubbed off on everyone around them; from the tutor group leaders to pretty much every student on the course. innocent already employs a Placement Student from Oxford Brookes University Business School, and I'm sure we'll be recruiting many more in the future."
Doug Bairner
Market Controller, Innocent Ltd, after his visit to the Business School
IBM Consulting connection
As part of the advanced honours Consultancy module, the School has been developing a closer relationship with IBM Consulting, one of the largest consultancies in the world. IBM Consulting has been involved in presenting a workshop on how to get hired as a graduate in the consultancy industry, including sessions on life as a consultant, delivered by recently hired graduate consultants, and short real-life assessment exercises of the type used at recruitment centres.
Visit to Lloyds TSB Head Office
A group of Business School students was invited to spend a day at Lloyds TSB Head Office. They had lunch with the Director of IT and Operations and were given the chance to propose ideas for student internet banking.
"It has really encouraged me to start applying for graduate training schemes starting next year, including the Lloyds programme."
Louise Dowling
Business Management student
Notable Alumni
Among the graduates of Oxford Brookes University Business School are:
- Allan McCallum-Toppin, co-founder and owner of AMT Coffee Ltd
- Andy Rhodes, Marketing and Strategy Director, Dell Data Centre Solutions Division, Texas
- Sven Keysers, Consultant at PricewaterhouseCoopers in Frankfurt
- Tom Old, Marketing Director for Gear4, the number one European-based iPod accessories brand
- Cary Reichbach, Vice-President of Menudo Entertainment, a US-based music management company
- Michael McGrath, the first person with a disability to trek to both the North and South Poles
