Why an MBA program ?

     An MBA degree offers you knowledge of management principles and practices to access to the job market. You are going to improve your skills during the program to a sufficient level. These skills that you acquire in the program will help you to reach a higher level in your career. When you finish the program you realize that you are a complete different person. Not everybody can survive to one of this program which pushes you to deal with some different and complicated problems happened in the real business life. It is just your anxiety to know and your competitive behavior which help you to be successful in the moments under highest pressure. 

     However an MBA program prepares you to work in teams getting the highest performance of each one of the team's members and obtaining the feedback of your team colleagues who will help you improve your skill as future manager of any department in a company. You will be much better suited to understand and respond effectively to the uncertainty and complexity that is a feature of organizational life in times of rapid change. All the business cases that you are going to experiment in the course are going to show you how your capacities will respond under hard future business situation.

    Benefits of MBA program are: 

• Improvement in your communication skills
• Improvement in your time management skills
• Improvement in conflict resolution skills
• To generate an analytical sense of mind.
• Increasing motivation in your career.

     MBA program's bases are a mix between hard work and total involvement in the job that you are developing. Taking this bases and adding devotion to your studies will help you to reach the position that you want in the future work environment.

The Uncertainty of an MBA student in Dubai

       At this moment I am enjoying my last module of the MBA program in Hult International Business School. It has been almost 11 months since I started my classes. It has been 7 months without seeing my family and now the moment to have a good break is coming. This break will give time me to relax at home, spend time with my friends, family and most importantly gave me energy to confront the difficult time of job hunting.

It's true that in the current situation most of MBA student find difficulties to find a job because most of the companies have frozen fresh hiring completely. Now people think twice to apply for a MBA program in a Business School. New students start to have the doubt if paying the tuition fees for the program, accommodation, and so on it is going to be a investment or a expenditure for his/her future, in other words, if this step is going to help them to change for a new career-path.

      Yesterday I received a call from a recruiter of a technologic company based here in Dubai. I hope that this opportunity can be the open door to my future work experience in the Middle East. I am Spanish and for me, the visa is one of the main issues since it expired in one month. Now I have to be open to all the different job opportunities in Dubai because disappointing economical situation in Spain does not help manage my expenses. So I decided to pursue another option which is an internship even taking into account the experience that I have working in the same area. In the Middle East the opportunities to find a full- time job are very linked with the networking that you do during your program. Internships (3-6 months) are something unique that I can find in Dubai. Most companies in Dubai offer internships throughout the year and the interns do the same work as full-time recruits. It works well for the companies because they don't have to commit for a long term and they can employ people on project basis. In this downturn, the opportunities for internships have increased as companies don't want to commit to recruiting full-time employees.

      Things are similar at other b-schools. I spoke with friends at other top schools as for example like IE in Spain  and most people of the class of 2011 are in a difficult spot; It will be extremely difficult for people graduating this year to get their first choice; we might have to settle with our second/third choices right now.

MBA vs. Economic Crisis

We are living in a world of weakened expectations. If we have to take into account some positive point from this, it is that we cannot deny that we are living the most economic disaster from 1930s ¨ The Great Depression¨ and we are surviving to it. Yet too many millions remain unemployed or underemployed.

However, we have more in common with our grandparents' generations. We have known hardship. Today the most of the governments around the world are expected to do much, but it has far less, its finances are crimped by privileges, defense, and debt service.

Now is when the world is counting on us to succeed, and no one is expecting that the government to do much of anything.

            We have to be the generation challenged to achieve by our smart brain that private companies correct not just the economy but the entire world. As an MBA graduate, we have proven that you know how to grind it out. Now we will show to the world how we can do something else.  In this global environment we need to participate with others to make it happen. We have to spend time in the searches that interest most. Follow our passion. Enjoy of free time. Pay attention to our family. And find ways to give back to our community. As we have done with challenges in the past, now we will figure out how to do it, because we know how to make things works. MBA graduates can discover many more things to supplement this life. 

              I would like to share with you guys this video of Steve Jobs (Apple's CEO) delivering his commencement speech to the graduates of Stanford University in 2005.