Originally posted by SEAJ at 3/25/12 08:44 PM
Hate to prick your bubble – but when I was a newly minted eager and bushy tailed MBA graduate, I also thought that the world was then my own oyster – but the reality is that MBA degrees are not all that uncommon. Every job vacancy is applied for by tons of fresh MBA’s whilst employers are only on the look-out for MBA’s that already have at least some experience and have proven themselves so to call – so your first job is going to be the hardest for you to land – and is critical to your future career path.
I actually have quite a bit of good work experience. My MBA will compliment what I already have. Part of the reason I decided on my MBA several years back was because I was stuck in middle management while others who had similar work experience and then got their MBAs were being promoted to senior positions ahead of me. I have no intention of getting into teaching, but rather my education and experience is on the sales, marketing and business development side. Hence why I've also been considering Singapore.
To Weelock: I'd never be able to get a job in China simply because I don't speak Mandarin. A local Canadian friend of mine gets sent to Guangzhou every year to keep an eye on the company's Chinese market expansion because he's fluent in Cantonese, Mandarin, Japanese and English. And from what I've researched on Thailand, jobs of my background and experience and that would pay the salary I'm looking for tend to be given to upper class Thais. |
