You recently moved to Singapore on a company post and have already worked in Dubai. Could you update us on your latest professional developments and share some advice with your fellow alums on how to penetrate the international job market?

I have been working and living in Dubai for more than three years. I recently got a great opportunity to move to Singapore and become a Regional Sales Leader. It is a very big turn in my career as from handling sales into one country I was asked to start handling fourteen. It will be challenging and exhausting, but there is nothing more rewarding than the feeling you get when you accomplish something that you and others considered impossible for you to achieve. 

Note to fellow students: do not wait for the perfect offer to come from abroad. Accept the one with which you can survive and get the perfect one once you are there. If you are not willing to do that, then you are not willing to get out of your comfort zone. In which case, an international career won’t work for you. You have to love the adventure and have an explorer spirit, ready for a new challenge every day, because that is what an international career is all about. You might change one or two jobs within the first 6 months in a new country until you find the right one, but it is better than staying unemployed for a year or two waiting for the perfect offer to land in your mail box. Or even worse, spend years doing the job that you hate. It took me 12 months to realize that, only then I was ready to accept my ‘imperfect’ offer.

What made you choose ALBA for your graduate studies?

There were a lot of factors. I wanted to get the best MBA available in Greece, the timing was right and the personal challenge was there (I was only 19 when I started the course).

Share with us your fondest memory while studying at ALBA

It is the brainstorming sessions we had with the team for the group assignments. At that time I was getting very frustrated about it, but only now I realize how much fun we had in the meantime.