Looking back on your career, what was the most important decision you made (or didn't make) regarding your career path?

During my undergraduate studies, I worked as a full time student assistant at the Center for Career and Counseling Services of ACG.  The work I performed was assisting in administrative tasks, and this experience made me decide to work in the area of Human Resources Development. This job played an important part when applying for my first “real” job after graduation. The great lesson for me was that every job regardless how big or small, prestigious or not, contributes in building capabilities and skills for any working context.  Later on, almost 12 years after graduation, I decided to pursue an MSc in HRM at ALBA.  Again going back to school after years of working in the “professional world” is something I never regret as this part of my education helped me reframe my hands on experience with a new perspective with regards to Strategic Human Resources Management and business partnering.

What do you believe recent graduates should keep in mind as they start out their careers?

Be focused, never give up, see disappointments as opportunities to learn, big and work with ethics and integrity.

What made you choose ALBA for your graduate studies?

The high quality and standards of ALBA along with the competitive to foreign academic institutions academic curricula, made me choose ALBA.  

Share with us your fondest memory while studying at ALBA.

Very difficult to pick one.  So many memories.  I remember every second weekend being at ALBA in Vouliagmeni and during lunch breaks going to Moorings with my classmates along with our flipcharts for a working lunch and customers at the restaurant staring at us (not the waiters as they were used to ALBA students).