{"id":22330,"date":"2021-06-21T12:07:31","date_gmt":"2021-06-21T11:07:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kbs-news-events\/?p=22330"},"modified":"2024-07-31T09:32:26","modified_gmt":"2024-07-31T08:32:26","slug":"alumni-focus-the-business-consultant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kbs-news-events\/2021\/06\/alumni-focus-the-business-consultant\/","title":{"rendered":"MBA Alumni Focus: The Business Consultant"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Sharleen Liu, from China, studied an MBA full-time for the academic year 2016\/2017. Prior to studying her MBA, She was Group Account Director in WE Marketing Group, her responsibility was to manage client service and brand strategy.\u00a0 <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Why did you choose Kent Business School for your MBA?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Among all the business schools, I decided to study with Kent Business School, because of its International reach, its friendly atmosphere, supportive staff and its location; the beautiful city of Canterbury nearby, and London a short train ride.\u00a0 <\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b><span data-contrast=\"auto\">What was the best thing about your MBA?<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">I utilised all the facilities that the school provided, like the career centre; the lectures\/training provided. I made local and international friends. I gained a better understand the UK culture and improved my language capability. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>What&#8217;s your advice to MBA students?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">My advice to an\u00a0MBA student\u00a0that wants to stay in the UK after graduating,\u00a0would be to locate the\u00a0school career centre\u00a0during your first week that you arrive.\u00a0They\u00a0were extremely helpful and gave me\u00a0very valuable advice.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Beyond the MBA\u2026<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">I joined a Germany communication group for two years, and have now started my own business, a communication agency as a business consultant. MBA study plays an important role during my career development, which made me more confident, comprehensive, and structured. I know myself and lead myself, that is a real leader. <\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;335559739&quot;:240}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b><span data-contrast=\"auto\">A short quote to sum up what you took from the MBA?<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">&#8220;Be an actioner instead of a dreamer!&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sharleen Liu, from China, studied an MBA full-time for the academic year 2016\/2017. Prior to studying her MBA, She was Group Account Director in WE &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kbs-news-events\/2021\/06\/alumni-focus-the-business-consultant\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":79181,"featured_media":22332,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[177066,9875,124],"tags":[170946,263932],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kbs-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22330"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kbs-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kbs-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kbs-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/79181"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kbs-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22330"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kbs-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22330\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22352,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kbs-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22330\/revisions\/22352"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kbs-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22332"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kbs-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22330"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kbs-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22330"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kbs-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22330"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}