Career Momentum
Post study careers support to help you fast-track your career.
For recent matriculated alumni, the Career Momentum programme is designed to accelerate and shape future success beyond the first role post graduation.
We work with you to take charge of your career journey through personalised one-to-one coaching together with a suite of career development resources and alumni networking events. Together these tools help you navigate career growth and progression.
What are the benefits of this programme for your early career?
- Gain insights from faculty, alumni, and top search firms on kickstarting or transitioning your career path
- Work with career coaches to master your future transitions
- Network with recent alumni for fresh perspectives
- Unlock strategies to tackle career challenges, boost negotiation skills, and achieve your goals while maintaining well-being
- Tap into digital resources to accelerate your career growth
Network
Connect with alumni in your region
OBA Chapters
The Oxford Business Alumni (OBA) Chapters build strong regional communities where alumni share ideas, explore career opportunities, and discuss business challenges. Through in-person and online networking events, these groups help alumni expand their expertise while staying connected with Oxford Saïd and the wider University. Whether through industry discussions or career support, OBA Chapters create a space for collaboration, learning, and mutual support.
Driven by passionate alumni, OBA Chapter leaders strengthen lifelong connections across the network. They host speaker events, professional networking, and student-alumni meetups like trek receptions and send-off parties. They also maintain online platforms for seamless alumni connections, facilitating career referrals, mentorship, and social events. Through these efforts, OBA Chapters foster a dynamic, engaged, and supportive global community.
Career coaching
Your career path will evolve over time, so don't forget that we continue to support you with continuous coaching.
Career coaching can provide significant benefits at various stages of your professional journey by helping you gain clarity, direction, and confidence in making career decisions. You have access to career coaching throughout your journey, whether you're exploring new areas or advancing into leadership roles, with a personalised approach to suit your needs.
Facing career obstacles is common, and a coaching session can help generate new ideas and reframe challenges, providing a way forward. One of the most valuable aspects of career coaching is the accountability it offers—you can check in regularly to ensure progress and stay on track toward your goals.
From practical application support to big-picture career visioning, personal branding, and networking, our coaching adapts to your specific needs.
Did you know that throughout your career:
Get in touch to seek support for your career decision making, job search, application or negotiating your next package.
Upcoming events
Your First 100 Days - How to succeed quickly in your new role
Tuesday 24 March, 4pm Virtual
This virtual workshop is open to all industries and designed for Saïd Business School MBA and MFE alumni who are starting a new role—or want to succeed more quickly in one.
This session focuses on navigating career transitions such as promotions, role changes, returns after a break, or launching a new venture. You’ll explore practical tools and frameworks to help you transition effectively in your first months, build credibility and early momentum, understand new organisational cultures, and establish strong stakeholder relationships. It also supports self-management and wellbeing, helping you build a network of support as you move confidently into your next chapter. Facilitated by Anna Hewitt.
Career Momentum | Human Interviewing in the Age of AI
Tuesday 28 April, 12pm Virtual
As AI reshapes recruitment, interviews can feel increasingly transactional. This session helps you stand out by focusing on what technology can’t replicate—your judgement, values, and ability to connect.
Led by Oxford Saïd alumnus, Indusry Advisor and executive coach Jason Bell (MBA 2010–11), you’ll learn how to position yourself as a compelling, differentiated candidate in an AI-driven hiring landscape.
What you’ll gain:
- Practical strategies to navigate AI-led recruitment processes
- Clear, confident ways to communicate your impact through storytelling
- Insight into how employers assess judgement, values, and decision-making
- Techniques to approach interviews as authentic, two-way conversations
Why attend?
This interactive session is designed to give you immediate, usable tools to perform with clarity and confidence—helping you cut through the noise and connect on a human level.
Digital resources
Tap into your digital toolkit
OSCAR
Your OSCAR student careers portal continues as your main portal to book appointments, register for events and access job opportunities.
Login with your named lifelong email. You can reset your password on the login screen
Canvas - Alumni Career Transitions
The modules in this course are designed to supplement our in-person and virtual sessions, to help you manage the transition to the next phase of your career.
Login with your named school email address (ending in @said.oxford.edu).
CareerOS
CareerOS is a brand new tool to unlock hidden job opportunities and personalised network insights. Get ready to embark on your next exciting career adventure with CareerOS, our latest and greatest tool to help you conquer the job market!
Find:
Networking opportunities that connect you with top-tier professionals and alumni
Expert tips for creating resumes and preparing for interviews
Exclusive job listings that you won’t find anywhere else
Register: sign up here choose Saïd Business School, your cohort year using your named SBS lifelong email address (ending in @said.oxford.edu)
MBA Exchange
MBA Exchange is an integrated careers platform, that is focused on helping alumni explore and identify jobs board, webinars and company guides.
Access MBAExchange.com
Username: Your school named email address (ending in @said.oxford.edu).
Executive Grapevine
Executive Grapevine is a database of global search consultants that allows you to search by your chosen industry and/or geographic location.
The firms and consultants included in this database specialise in sourcing executives for success driven organisations and supporting senior line managers to bring in experienced hires for permanent interim and contracted assignments.
Sign up and log in with your named SBS email address (ending in @said.oxford.edu).
Contact
Contact us at executivecareers@sbs.ox.ac.uk if you would like further information.
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