The more educated a person is, the more likely they are to enjoy a successful working life. According to the forecasts made by the professor of the Autonomous University of Barcelona Josep Oliver, if currently a quarter of active workers have medium training and 32% high, in 2026 both qualifications will add up to 65% of the total offer instead of 57%. Of the 2.6 million jobs will be generated in Spain in that 2026 horizon, 2.3 million will be of the highest qualification.

It is therefore necessary to prepare for a work environment that requires training, and one of the most successful ways out is to do a master's degree.

Master's degrees are useful and that is how six professionals are going to show us.

 

1. Xavier Guirao, 42 years old

He found himself unemployed and decided to redirect his career through an online communication and marketing course at the Autonomous University of Barcelona. Than he found a job shortly after finishing it and taking the internship. And he insisted on training him with another postgraduate degree in web analytics. The work that he develops at the Runroom consultancy, his hiring, first as a digital business consultant and then as digital analytics.

 

2. Sofía Hernansanz, 23 years old

She is sure, she has left the unemployment lists thanks to the postgraduate degree that she did at the Complutense University of Madrid. Sofía graduated in Modern Languages, Culture and Communication, and shortly after enrolled in a master's degree in Digital Literature, without which she would not have got the job she has at the digital transformation consultancy Minsait by Indra where she does natural language processing with chatbots. Her salary exceeds 30,000 euros per year.

 

3. Jorge González Somavilla, 41 years old

The general director of the Basque electrical solutions company Ormazabal knows that he has reached this position due to the skills provided by the innovation course carried out at Deusto Business School. The course allowed him to analyze the current uncertain economic environments and know how to respond to them with the most appropriate strategic plans. That is why the president of the company chose him to set Ormazabal's new course.

 

4. Ana Maria Cabezas

She was the CFO of a recruitment company when decided to be a mother. Her son was born with Down syndrome, so she stepped aside to take care of her. And she had her second child. Ana did a master's degree at Esade that allowed to rejoin the world of work. Not only did she reengage with work and make it compatible with her children, but she has stopped being a manager to become a teacher and consultant. To work for herself.

 

5. Toni Fernández, 35 years old

This computer engineer was working for a technology multinational when he enrolled in a master's degree because he liked management and wanted to improve in this area. But the course didn't just stop at one, when he was studying at the ISDI digital business school, the possibility arose to do it also at ICEX, whose program he had signed up for some time ago and had been selected. He stopped working and started training full time. And he spent his stay at ICEX in a commercial office in Colombia, where Google crossed his path (like ISDI or ICEX). Toni decided to create her own company. Today he is going for his second advertising campaign management company Viva Conversion.

 

6. Francisco Inglés, 30 years old

He first did Aeronautical Engineering. Then he studied 3D Design and later enrolled in a master's degree in numerical simulation, back at his Polytechnic University of Madrid. And all this served to create his own company. Obuu Tech is a start-up dedicated to the supply and optimization of complex machinery, of planes and trains. It has 3 years of life, 6 employees and it has been possible thanks to the end-of-degree project and postgraduate studies.