《111-1》Alumni Sharing: Susan Lin and Jeff Wang from GHRM MBA share their application experiences and career suggestions

On Friday, September 16th, we were glad to have an online admission information session with the alumni who graduated from IBMBA and GHRM MBA programs. In order to share some information with those who are interested in our international program, IBMBA and GHRM MBA held a session together. We invited some outstanding alumni in the industry, to share some preparation skills for admission and their career experiences. GHRM MBA alumni, Susan and Jeff joined the session. Susan just returned from Germany as an exchange student, and Jeff is currently working as an HR at STARLUX Airlines.

Susan gained internship experience at a local social enterprise when she was an undergraduate. And after graduating from college, she worked as an HR official in the local financial industry. These two working experiences made her more determined to go to graduate school because she wanted to gain more knowledge about HR. "When you set a goal, go forward bravely," Susan said. That’s how she joined GHRM MBA. Susan said that she really liked the small class of GHRM MBA as everyone could understand each other in-depth in class or during extracurricular activities.

Susan also shared some preparation skills for creating a personal resume and oral exam for admission. She mentioned the required documents in detail to the students, so that everyone could be more oriented in their preparations. Among them, there was a special mention of the "STAR" principle that HR highly recommended, which were Situation, Task, Action, and Result. She strongly suggested we apply this principle to our resume and oral exams. The other was “put yourselves in strangers’ shoes". She said that we should briefly write down all the information so that people could understand it in minutes. In the end, Susan said, “Don't panic and show your confident smile.”

Through her introduction, we hope that students who are interested in GHRM could get more familiar with the program. Let’s go abroad and enjoy the GHRM MBA program together!

Jeff has been working at STARLUX Airlines for three years now. He had studied in both the Department of Software Engineering and the Department of Applied Foreign Languages in college. After graduation, he got his first job as a bilingual teacher, teaching children in kindergarten. At that time, he thought about his evaluation of the future plan, and Jeff decided to change the course of his life. Fortunately, he saw GHRM's enrollment admission article in a Facebook club. At that time, he believed that GHRM could give him three advantages, "meeting more people, expanding horizons, and applying to work". He also found that the resources provided by GHRM MBA and NSYSU college of management were very helpful for his future career. Jeff joined GHRM MBA in 2017. He also went to Temple University in the United States for exchange in 2018. During the process, he said that he gained a lot of inspiration and strengthened his problem-solving ability. After returning to Taiwan, he started his work at STARLUX Airlines. Jeff also said that the academic and theoretical knowledge gained from GHRM MBA helped him to fit into the company more quickly. He said that though he still faced some difficulties that were never taught about at school, he could apply the case study experiences he learned from school to the problems and solve them much easier than others.