{"id":1093,"date":"2022-12-02T09:39:27","date_gmt":"2022-12-02T09:39:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/thekentmbacommunity\/?p=1093"},"modified":"2024-12-03T14:53:43","modified_gmt":"2024-12-03T14:53:43","slug":"sarah-alobaid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/thekentmbacommunity\/2022\/12\/02\/sarah-alobaid\/","title":{"rendered":"Sarah Alobaid"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"lead\">MBA 2022, Kuwait<\/p>\n<p>After her graduation, Sarah worked in the banking sector. From there, she went to Naples, Italy to learn the authentic way of baking Napoletana pizza. In 2017, she established a pizzeria in Kuwait but, due to the pandemic in 2020, she had to shut down the business and went back to the banking sector.<\/p>\n<p>Her goal has been to get her master&#8217;s degree since 2012 but she did not have the opportunity before. &#8216;Because of my pain after shutting down my business which I built from scratch, it pushed me further to try a new path of getting my master&#8217;s degree. I resigned from the bank because it was a very stressful job as a call centre agent during the pandemic period, then I went to the public sector as an accountant and during that period I applied to universities overseas.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Achievements<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Establishing a pizzeria in Kuwait, &#8216;Flame Napolitan Pizza&#8217;<\/li>\n<li>Being an active member of the Student Union while I was at university<\/li>\n<li>Having a scholarship to the biggest investment company in the USA, Boston &#8216;State Street Corporation&#8217;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>What attracted you to the MBA programme at Kent Business School and why?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The location because it is close to London. The modules on the programme &#8211; the innovation module attracted me the most &#8211; and the interview with Debbie. My failure in my business pushed me to complete my education,. I hadn&#8217;t reached the satisfaction level in my career path.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Aspiration<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I have decided yet but am thinking of doing my PhD part-time, as well as getting a job in the UK.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Advice<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Network with people who are in the business field.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cAn investment in knowledge pays the best interest.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Benjamin Franklin<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MBA 2022, Kuwait After her graduation, Sarah worked in the banking sector. From there, she went to Naples, Italy to learn the authentic way of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/thekentmbacommunity\/2022\/12\/02\/sarah-alobaid\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":79181,"featured_media":1373,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[249107],"tags":[249102],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/thekentmbacommunity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1093"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/thekentmbacommunity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/thekentmbacommunity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/thekentmbacommunity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/79181"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/thekentmbacommunity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1093"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/thekentmbacommunity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1093\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1603,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/thekentmbacommunity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1093\/revisions\/1603"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/thekentmbacommunity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1373"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/thekentmbacommunity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1093"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/thekentmbacommunity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1093"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/thekentmbacommunity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1093"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}