Full-time MBA 2024 Talent Book

The information you provide will be taken and used for two different purposes:


1) The Talent Book; used by our Careers and Professional Development team when engaging with employers and internally at Cass.


2)The Class Directory; used by our MBA Recruitment team when engaging with prospective MBA candidates (short summary of profiles)


We would recommend looking at our previous Talent Book for examples and previous entries. 



Select your nationality

Select any dual or other nationalities you may hold

From your current or most recent employer

From your current or most recent employer

Your current city of work

Your current country of work

If you have previously worked in any other cities

If you have previously worked in any other countries

Please include any languages you can speak (including your native language). For example, if you only speak English as your native language just include English.

Please include your prior degrees, with the most recent first. e.g. BSc (Hons) Psychology, Manchester, UK. If you do not have a degree please leave this section blank.

Please select from the list up to five technical skills or professional qualifications you would like to highlight to potential employers

If you have any other technical skills or professional qualifications which are not stated above, please write them here
LinkedIn handle/URL
Most employers will review your LinkedIn profile if you have applied for a job and they will also use LinkedIn to identify relevant profiles that they are sourcing. If you do not have a LinkedIn profile, we highly recommend that you set one up. For guidance on how to create or improve your profile or amend your URL please click here.
Career Summary 

The purpose of this section is to demonstrate your key competencies and skills from your current and previous jobs and will comprise of 2 components: The Headline and Three Career Highlights.


1)     The Headline (Maximum 20 words)

This is a short paragraph summarising your career to date, it should clearly shows areas such as years of experience, key sectors/industries or functions worked in and what your roles have entailed.


This is your chance to tailor to your audience (e.g. a future employer) what you want to be known for and your value proposition (i.e. what you have to offer an employer)


2)     Three career highlights (Approx. 20 words for each bullet point - a maximum of 60 words for all three)
This is an opportunity to highlight three examples (3 bullet points) from your career that you are particularly proud of and sell your key skills and experience. We would recommend reading our guidelines on structuring strong and impactful career highlights. The following are some areas that are useful to consider: 

·         Achievement/improvement of something that had impact for your company or your team
·         Leadership; which led to a particular outcome
·         Collaboration; either across multiple teams, regions or other third parties
·         Building relationships/sales/customer engagements that have led to positive benefits for your company