Category: Coffee & Conversation

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Coffee & Conversation 2022: Study abroad … and then?

Worried about getting a job after studying abroad? Learn what can you and should you do to get employed soon after completing your education. Join us for a conversation with five successful people who can tell you the strategies to employ when you set out to look for a job in these covid times. Somak Mukherjee (Assistant Vice President, Senior Apps Analyst, Citi Canada) Udita Chakravarti (Communications, Advocacy & Partnerships at UNICEF India) Megha Agarwal (Business Development Manager at YouGov, UK) Subhojit Mukherjee (Business Integration Partners, Milan, Italy) Prithviraj Ray (Student, UK) Watch on Facebook

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Coffee & Conversation 2020: Making a Career Abroad

Educative, Elucidative, Exclusive is how the students who attended this year’s Coffee & Conversation, described the event. Our guest speakers Subhojit Mukherjee and Prithviraj Ray immediately connected with everyone which led to a very exciting and interactive discussion. Engaging in intelligent and pertinent questions, the students participated enthusiastically, making the session, as rightly put by Aditya, insightful. Subhojit began the conversation by comparing the careers of four of his friends who are employed in different countries of the EU. What they all had in common were four things: academic excellence, proactivity, visibility and networking. He stressed on the importance of maintaining good grades as they make you immediately stand out. However, good grades are not enough. Even if you are […]

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Coffee & Conversation 2019: Student Life Abroad

“Network, network, network!” was Anneysa Ghosh’s advice to students at our this year’s Coffee and Conversation round. During her years at the University of York she embraced every chance to connect with people, volunteering to help them out. This way she gained precious work experience and boost her CV. “Think about what kind of impression it gives if you have worked for a mayor of a big foreign city”, she advised and pointed out that infact in many cases, she even got paid back for her free work later, through “real” job offers and a network which helped her to establish herself as a successful business woman. Dr. Hans-Martin Kunz, former lecturer of Social Anthropology, told us about the traps […]

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