Each day in career services is different, unique and exciting. Day to day my work includes scheduling events; group workshops and personal meetings with students. A lot of the Career Services work is encouraging students to get a real understanding of their specific career objectives and goals.

Ms. Robyn with Donald Trump at the ESE NY Students Welcome Party

At ESE we delight in finding a company that our students will enjoy working at while they develop their talents and skills .

Another facet of career services is to constantly make more and better connections with firms and organizations in a diversity of industries such fashion, finance, arts, sports management, health care, marketing.
What type of companies in New York City does ESE work with for internship opportunities?

At ESE we work with a long list of companies in New York City, many of them are Top 100 Fortune companies, some notable examples are:

Cipriani; Versace; Hermes; Allen Partners, LLC; Fifa/Concacaf; Major League Soccer; Goldstein Communications; Swank Productions; Nexus Showroom; Prudential ; Fidelity; Saxton Group; Deloitte; UBS; United Nations & Nike Communications.

What makes the internship experience at ESE NYC so special?

We begin by asking the students what their dream is. And then, through dialogue and discussion, we begin to build a profile of a students’ ideal internship.

We also provide hand-on help with cover letters and resume preparation.

In addition, we work individually with each student to develop their interviewing and their networking skills.
Can you offer any advice for students looking for a great internship at the European School of Economics?

If you are not fluent in English, make a pledge to yourself that you will work on your English by taking classes, signing up for tutoring sessions, or make a point to live with Americans so you can practice your English morning, noon and night. If you end up at school with several students who speak you language, resist the urge to speak to them in your native language. This is a good practice for your future internship and will further enhance your communication and language skills.

The Visionary Leadership Programme is a unique journey to self-discovery. It is not geared to transfer a ready-made set of convictions and beliefs nor to give you any bookish knowledge, imposed from the outside, and equal for all. Its aim is to teach students how to upset any fence, overcome inner limits, cultivate independent thinking and a true passion for freedom and greatness. The VL Program and Florence will create the propitious conditions for developing higher ideas, harmony and beauty in its every form. Art, music, theatre, philosophy and the search for truth will be the tools in this program to amplify the vision and lift up your being. Irreplaceable condition to bring to light the inner qualities, the ideas and values of a visionary Leader.

More than a course, the Program is meant to be a laboratory, a forge of the young visionary leaders that any country and the corporate world need: individuals educated to approach business as if they were serving a cause; with competence, efficiency, honesty, in one word: integrity. Visionary Leaders need attention, they need to be forged one by one. The aim is to bring individuals’ skills and talents to surface, make each student aware of his uniqueness, and above all to realize their potential as leaders of the future for Turkey.  While this October edition is completing its launch, we will be preparing the selection in all the best universities of 100 more Turkish students, to send to Italy for the summer edition 2011 of the Programme.

The Visionary Leadership Program will start at 10:00 o’clock of the 4th of October at Palazzo Rosselli del Turco to welcome students to “The School for Gods”.

Collaborators and assistents, In Italy and in Turkey, have done an exacting work to ensure you the best conditions for this unique experience. A Renaissance Palace for your classes, a residence in the centre of Florence, a body of excellent  lecturers, will make your studies and your stay in Florence fruitful and enjoyable. Keynote guests like Professor Ilber Ortayli, President of Topkapi Museum, corporate leaders of the stature of Gordon Bethune, former CEO of Continental Airline, and George Koukis CEO of Temenon, and leading personalities of Politics and Economy, like Prof. Stefano Cordero di Montezemolo and Prince Ottaviano de’ Medici, will lecture on the program to offer you their vision and inspire you.

The School for Gods is not like any other school you have attended or you know of. It is a School of Being, a school of responsibility, educating future leaders to approach business as if they were serving a cause; with competence, efficiency, honesty, in one word: integrity.

“Man lives in his ordinary life as a disintegrated being but capable of
reaching a higher state. He can rediscover his integrity through a
special kind of education impossible to find in the ordinary paths of life.”
The School for Gods

Statistics show that though most professionals hold degrees from either an
undergraduate or postgraduate programme that have meticulously prepared them for their current field, there’s always one particular aspect that attracts you to a certain job position that is not necessarily the one you are doing now. In most cases fresh professionals find a hard reality between what they actually studied in school to what their current work field is, though they’ve primed for exactly this for the past 3 or 4 years.

Here’s a classic example.

It often so happens that those whose academic path fell more on the communication side and often strictly communication find that most companies especially conglomerates tend to see a communication specialist as a jack of all trades. And often you’ll find these “communication specialists” possibly holding random positions such as organising events or functions or even digital communications.

This is usually a blessing in disguise, as in these cases this allows the novice professional to select a specific specialisation. His/her choice should naturally be nurtured with the adequate instruction. However, now you are not the student with all this time on your hands which unsurprisingly presents specific inevitabilities: a short and brief intense specialisation course, whose end results allow you to put this new acquired knowledge to pragmatic practice.

Now, you don’t want some random online course from some school in the middle
of nowhere that you’ve never heard of. Your best bet is to peruse the countless options that are up for grabs by a preferably International Business School who have made programmes based on other who have proven to have the same requests and needs that a fresh professional require.

These made to measure courses usually don’t run over 40 hours total over a span of 2/3 months. These specialisation programmes present in-depth analysis of case histories, seminars, workshops and even the possibility of internships if need be.

Should this be the situation you find yourself in at the present moment, almost certainly you’ll find the course that suites your needs and is the right course for you.

Give your career that extra flair, discover all the possibilities of a short specialisation course offered by some of the world’s premier Business schools.

How many times have you heard someone speak of the insufficiency  of fresh graduates at the work place, the lack of awareness on site of the dynamics of the sector as well as the company?

The probability of this occurring, makes companies very reluctant in hiring new graduates as they may prove to be a liability as opposed to an asset, becoming an obstacle for both the employer as well as the employee.  An internship prevents just this, allowing the intern to overcome and learn by trial and error making him/her that more attractive to a prospective employer.

The countless advantages of an internship after a Master do not end here. If the internship is provided by our backed by a prestigious International Business School, this may without doubt provide outstanding opportunities.

These prestigious business schools also tout their numerous connections to the world’s leading and most respective companies and enterprises. This undoubtedly highlights the prospect of embarking on a truly global working experience with top companies in the interns field of choice.

It goes without saying that the likelihood of being hired by the sponsoring company are countless, as well as making the valuable experience a highpoint on your resume securing future positions with other companies.

Discover courses offered by an international business school which guarantee an internship which will only add significance to both your career and future.

The School for Gods could never have come to be had I not encountered the Dreamer and His teaching. The Dreamer asked me to write the Book and gave me the Title. I started collecting notes from the very first day of my encounter with the Dreamer and I continued virtually without interruptions throughout the 20 years of my apprentship. Even when the notes started to aggregate in the form of a book it took me years to complete it. The book is a philosophy novel based on my biography. It has been difficult and painful to write it as it called for great sincerity on my part. In a way this long gestation was unavoidable and necessary as the ideas and the principles of the Dreamer needed time to show their effect in my own life. In it I play the double role of the scientist-observer and of the guinea pig, the observed.

The same applies to the European School of Economics. I never thought of creating a School of Economics, of a planetary breath. A school of Being. The Dreamer asked me to, and I did though I had no idea of how to do it and I was scared to death to the mere idea of such an endeavour.

I’ve dreamed of a revolution.
I’ve dreamed of a School which ‘remembers’
that the ‘dream’ is the most concrete thing that exists.
I’ve dreamed of a new generation of leaders…

Only when the Book was finished I realized that it had always existed, that any event, each fragment of my life, each cell of my existence was nothing else that a line, a section, a chapter of the Book.

2. The “European School of Economics” is meant to fulfil a moral education that helps the individual to no longer see himself as an employee who is delegating responsibility to his supervisor but as a leader who is grounded in a huge integrity, taking decisions that are not manipulated by any ideology but connected to an inner truth that is incorruptible. Reading your book, one has the impression that the sick emotionality and conflictual thinking of mankind are like a seed for a majority of global problems. Do you think that modern European society is at a point where this step into self-responsibility seems realistic?

ESE educational activities and pedagogy could never be classed as a moral education. Morality is made of principles, codes and values which change in time and space. What is moral here and in a certain time, could well be not moral somewhere else or in another time. The ideas and principles I received from the Dreamer, and that I reported in the Book, are timeless, not affected by time and geography. Responsibility is not a collective quality, as well as courage, creativity, integrity. Only an individual can be reponsible and only an individual can be happy and create wealth.

Behind every human achievement, at the origin of every intuition, of every scientific or social conquest, behind the world’s largest financial and industrial corporations, and all that is, beautiful, meaningfull, rich, there is invariably one man an individual and his dream. The life of an organization, of an entire civilization depends on the existence of visionaries, men and women, pragmatic dreamers, individuals. Without them no progress is possible. The mission I received from the Dreamer has been to create a School to prepare them, through individual attention, one by one. They are the precious cells of a healed humanity – healed from negative emotions and conflictual thinking – and the capacity to produce them is the only chance for our species to not succumb.

3. Especially in Germany, the word “leader” provokes some discomfort as German history bears an example in which leadership has perverted itself from its roots and led to a cruel development. What can be done to avoid that leadership is distancing itself from the commitment to collective benefit, to boundless wisdom? Can you explain the elite that is formed at the “School of Gods”?  And how is this ideal applied in the functioning of the “European School of Economics”?

Humanity thinks and feels negatively. It is only apparent that man wishes himself wealth, health and good fortune. In reality all education can be seen as the life-long acquisition of a set of beliefs and habits to dammage one’s body, to be unhappy, get old, sick and die. Man is his worst enemy. The planetary sport of mankind is self-sabotage.

Hitler is not a case of a perverted leadership but a person elected to materialize a self-distructive thinking, a collective suicide that happens in a nation’s psychology and finds a way to become a terrible reality. We should enlarge the understanding of the ancient saying, Homo homini lupus, the Latin phrase meaning “man is a wolf to his fellow man”, drawn on by Thomas Hobbes in the dedication of his work De cive (1651). Before being a wolf to others, man is wolf to himself.

Hitler is not out there, he is a black hole in our being. He is not a monster born out of the perversion of a leader but the materialization of a nightmare. The Shoah was not an accident of history nor the result of the mercilessness of a regime, nation or, even worse, a man or tyrant − the Dreamer said − It was the materialization of the vision of people who still had not forgiven themselves inside; the mirror image of a divided and conflictual way of thinking.

Only the Deamer can be so mercilessly true: Victim is always guilty.

And I think it is time for Germans to forgive themselves inside. They were only the mirror image of the ennemy that we – and the jews – bring inside.

4. The protagonist in your book is meeting a strong teaching figure called “The Dreamer” who is introducing him to the art of dreaming – can you describe this quality of dreaming? And how is it possible to invite this sort of dreaming into everyday-life?  Does everyone have access to his own “Dreamer”?

I was lucky to meet the remarkable man that in the Book I call the Dreamer. I offer all my gratitude to Him for forcing me to face my own horror and incompleteness. I wish that every man could encounter the Dreamer but it can only happen when a man is hopelessly disappointed by his life… when he realizes its incompleteness, and his impotence; when existence grips him in a vice so he cannot breathe… only then will the School appear.

There is a constant confusion between wishing and dreaming. We can wish for things and be lost in our wishful thinking all our life without never achieving them. From the Dreamer I have learned that Dream is the most real think there is and what we dream is already reality. Wishing is in time, Dreaming can only be in absence of time. It is built in the individual, cannot be created but only revealed. I DREAM = I AM. I am my dream. A man cannot dream more than he is. Dreams measure our level of being, our level of responsibility. Tell me your dream, I’ll tell you who you are.

Dreaming is the most distinctive feature of being human. One day may be machines will think, they will do all that we do and even laugh, but they will never be able to dream.

Descartes’ phrase “Cogito ergo sum” must be emended in “Somnio ergo sum”. I dream therefore I am.

The art of dreaming means the elimination of all that hampers our capacity of dreaming and be the conscious creator of our reality. This is the task of a “second education” and the mission of a School of Being.

5. In Turkey your book has had a huge success, with more than 100,000 copies sold. Throughout the world, it has been translated in 12 languages, including chinese.  What explains that also people belonging to such different cultures, who have perhaps rarely been in touch with a sort of literature that stimulates self-reflexion and self-development are attracted by your work?

For a number of reasons:

a) for the Dreamer, who is a complete new literary character, real, vibrant and at the same time unseizable. He is modern and timeless, he is wise but doesn’t belong to any religion or philosophy. His love is merciless. He is the living promise that one day we can all become the Dreamer, masters of our own destiny.

b) for the protagonist who is an ordinary man. The readers identify with the guinea pig, and sympathize with the protagonist for all the troubles and endless efforts he goes through to apply the words of the Dreamer to his own life.

c) The Book is also a map, an escape plan. The readers take spontaneously side with a man who takes to flight, a man who is dreaming his freedom. He is giving reality to a dream that belongs to all of us: transforming our life in a portable paradise.

One may begin to define an “internship” as a rite of passage from university (or studies in general) to the working world. Consequently  the internship becomes more of a crucial coaching for the white collar.

In the few months where you find yourself  halfway between work and study you may indeed accumulate a great amount of experience, mostly regarding the functioning dynamics of the company. One only assumes that a student coming from a specialized business school is fully ready, prepared & equipped to take on serious positions. However , it also must be said that this student may not knows anything at all and must learn most everything first hand on site as a baptism by fire.

So if an internship is a sort of “coaching”, one shouldn’t expect to then get hired by their host company, conversely if one has really obtained a wealth of knowledge and skill  during this experience they can one select their career and not wait for a career to select them.

Nonetheless, on the contrary things don’t always work out this way. Most often internships never really pan out the way you thought they would be it for both the intern and the host company. It is still the norm that most companies take on many interns at a time and don’t bother at all to train or guide them but instead exploit and take advantage of them , and so instead the interns are out getting coffee and running errands for the rest of the staff.

Thankfully all the examples mentioned above can easily be avoided by simply enrolling at a credible Business School or prominent University. Here it is their utmost duty to follow and nurture the students professional growth. In this case, being the human resource themselves is the student’s education and  academic portfolio that is placed above all, and this is the fundamentals of a brilliant Business School.

London, New York, Florence, Milan, Rome and now Madrid… is this a risky decision in a time of crisis?

What Student profile are you looking for and what are the admission requirements?

The student profile that the European School of Economics is looking for, is a person that is motivated, creative, ambitious, and wants to live life with values such as integrity, love for oneself, self security and confidence. ESE is looking for a different and unique student in the way of thinking, standing out as an individual with aspirations to be a young worldwide leader. We are looking for global citizens and above all Dreamers.

On what academic areas does ESE concentrate?

Areas that educate young enterpreneurs:

Undergraduate Programmes: BSc & BBA in Business, Finance & Marketing; BA in Communication

Postgraduate Programmes: MSc in Finance, Management, Marketing; Master in Business Administration

Certificate Programmes: Art Management, Entrepreneurship, Event Management, Fashion Management, Hospitality Management, Music Industry Management, Sports Management and so on..

What are the most requested programmes?

The most requested are the following:

• Bachelor of Science in International Business
• Master of Science in Marketing
• Certificates in Fashion Management, Event Management and International Finance

What added value does ESE give?

The Students can travel freely amongst the ESE centers while studying the chosen programme (London, New York, Rome, Milan, Florence and Madrid), as we teach the same programmes (only in English) in all the centers.

• Each class contains no more than 35 students in order to receive the individual attention that each student requires.

• Internships are included (and mandatory) in the programmes and we are committed to offer students working opportunities in every country of the world.

Speak to us about the professors

ESE professors are international, a mix between professional and academics with many years of experience in the working market.

Does ESE offer financial aid or scholarships?

ESE has the European School of Economics Foundation (ESEF) that grants scholarships to students who want to study in any one of our centers. All you have to do is fill out the on-line scholarship form on or website at www.eselondon.ac.uk after having completed the on-line application form.

What are today’s the most requested professionals?

Today’s market is looking for your flexible entrepreneurs that are creative and have the capacity to manage groups of people of different nationalities. Every day our world need more people that speak several languages, adapt to many cultures and have the initiative to make important decisions. Professional that are citizens of the world.

London is a leading global city being the world’s largest financial centre alongside New York City,   and has the largest city GDP in Europe.  London’s influence in politics, finance, education, entertainment, media, fashion, the arts and culture in general contributes to its global position.
On the other end of the Atlantic lies London’s North American counterpart, New York City.  New York city is the most populous city in the United States, and the center of the New York metropolitan area, which is one of the most populous metropolitan areas in the world. A true leading global city, New York exerts a powerful influence over global commerce, finance, media, culture, art, fashion, research, education, and entertainment.

Home to a range of top tier universities, colleges and schools, both London and New York have a combined student population of about 900,000 and are prominent centres of research and development, and therefore naturally ranks metropolis’ as London & New York amongst the best capitals in the world to complete an academic portfolio. The results of a recent study shows that three out of five Manhattan residents  and four out of 5 London residents are college graduates and one out of four hold advanced degrees, forming one of the highest concentrations of highly educated people in any American  & European city respectively.  The MBA is the top selected degree in these two global Alfa cities and financial corridors of power for students wishing to conclude their scholastic careers.

The Master of Business Administration (MBA) is a master’s degree in business administration, which attracts people from a wide range of academic disciplines.

At the European School of Economics the core courses in the MBA programme are designed to introduce students to the various areas of business such as accounting, marketing, human resources, operations management, etc.  ESE’s MBA program was  developed in order to meet the educational needs of managers and executives searching for a unique academic experience merging theory with practice.

Earning the Masters in Business Administration is no easy feat. It demands rigorous analytic skills to read patterns and dissect sets of data. Seasoned foresight and acute judgment are crucial to executing decisions. Managing mathematical formulae and statistical models are imperative for specialist expertise.

Students share experiences whilst omitting cultural hurdles, becoming aware and acknowledging the larger picture. High profile professors follow a well defined educational philosophy commending the virtue of self-actualization and departing from archaic thinking tools. Geared towards meticulous practicality, students graduate ESE’s programs with thorough knowledge along with high aspirations for themselves.

The European School of Economics with ToscanaIN & The Florentine present:
“Tuscany through different eyes”

Date: Monday 12 July 2010

Time: 19.00 – 22.00

Place: European School of Economics in Florence

For more information:
E-mail: ese.firenze@uniese.it
Tel. +39 055 21 70 50