实战：三个MBA毕业生的职业三级跳
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MBA学生的亲身经历证明，一次性改变三件人生大事简直难于上青天，但在罗特曼管理学院的毕业生中，还是涌现出了一些成功的三级跳健将，比如以下这三位： 帕萨•德夫 跳国家：从印度跳至加拿大 跳行业：从半导体跳至医疗保健 跳职能：从产品营销跳至内部战略规划 33岁的帕萨•德夫在牢骚满腹的劳动力大军中堪称一个异数。他说：“我正在做我喜欢、而且也擅长的工作，这种情形非常罕见。”但这一切来之不易。这位曾经做过产品营销工程师的印度人透露说，移居加拿大，然后从半导体业飞跃至医疗保健业，是他做过的难度最大的事情。 于德夫而言，一个最大的挑战就是如何说服加拿大雇主冒险试用一下像他这样一个既缺乏加拿大工作经验，也没有从事过医疗行业的外国人。他说：“我个人的看法是，现在的面试其实不是在挑选候选人，而是想法子拒绝候选人。因为他们真的想找到最佳人选，所以总是在寻找一个可以把你拒之门外的理由。”申请工作几乎花了德夫一年的时间。 找工作期间，他填写了70份罗特曼管理学院提供的求职申请表，超过100份外部求职申请，还经受了40次往往令人如坐针毡的面试过程。德夫估计，他是他们班最晚找到工作的15名学生之一—— 2013年6月获得MBA学位后，历经数月磨难，他才找到了一份称心的工作。 德夫目前在贝克列斯特医院和健康服务公司(Baycrest Hospital and Health Services)担任内部顾问。他说，这份工作应归功于攻读MBA期间在爱克发医疗信息技术公司(Agfa)的实习经历。“每次面试时，这段经历绝对是一个巨大的加分项，因为每个人都知道爱克发公司。要是我没有做过这份实习工作，我绝对不可能完成这种转变；这段经历表明我对医疗行业抱有激情，许多面试问题都集中在我在爱克发公司从事过的项目上面。” 商学院毕业后，负债读完MBA学位的德夫面临立刻找到工作的巨大压力，但他没有放弃投身医疗行业的愿望，他改变职业生涯的决心由此可见一斑。他说，对于国际学生来说，这种压力往往尤为剧烈。还算幸运的是，来罗特曼管理学院读MBA之前，德夫攒了一笔学费，从而能够避开印度高得离谱的贷款利率（14%到15%之间）。但即便如此，他毕业时依然背负着加拿大皇家银行( Royal Bank of Canada)提供的约47,000加元贷款。德夫看到不少同学为偿还债务将就着找了一份差事。他说：“许多同学上商学院就是为了获得梦想的工作，但整个事情随后向截然相反方向发展。为了获得一份好工作，他们不得不负债接受教育。随后，为了偿还贷款，他们就随便找了一份工作。” 尽管德夫说他不想重温三级跳的艰辛经历，但他很高兴自己终于做到了。“获得或接近你真正想要的工作，正是10万加元MBA学费的价值所在。否则的话，为什么我要掏这么大一笔钱去做上商学院前自己就已经在做的事情？” |
Students' experiences attest to the extreme difficulty of making major life changes on three planes at once. Here are the stories of a few successful Rotman triple jumpers: Partha Dev Country jump: India to Canada Industry jump: Semiconductors to healthcare Function jump: Product marketing to internal strategy Partha Dev is an exception in a workforce plagued by discontent. "I'm doing what I love and what I'm good at, which is very rare," says the 33-year-old. But it wasn't easy. The former product marketing engineer and native of India says moving to Canada and making the leap from semiconductors to healthcare was the hardest thing he's ever done. For Dev, the single biggest challenge was convincing Canadian employers to take a chance on someone with limited experience in the country and in the healthcare industry. "My personal opinion is now the interviews are not about selecting a candidate. It's about rejecting a candidate, because they really want to find the best, and they are always looking for a reason to reject you," he says. Dev spent roughly a year applying for jobs. During his search, he filled out some 70 job applications through Rotman, more than 100 external applications, and endured 40 often-grueling interviews. He estimates he was among the last 15 students in his graduating class to land a job, which he found several months after earning his MBA degree in June 2013. Dev credits his MBA internship with healthcare IT firm Agfa for his current job as an internal consultant for Baycrest Hospital and Health Services. "When I went for the interviews, it was definitely a huge plus point because everyone knew of Agfa.... If I hadn't done the internship, it would have been impossible to have made the switch; it showed my passion for the industry, and a lot of the interview questions focused on the projects I worked on for Agfa." It's a testament to Dev's determination that he didn't give up under the intense financial pressures on MBAs to secure jobs immediately after graduation -- that pressure is often more intense for international students, he says. Fortunately, Dev was able to sidestep India's exorbitant interest rates, which range from 14% to 15%, by saving for his MBA before coming to Rotman. However, he still graduated with about C$47,000 in loans from the Royal Bank of Canada. Dev watched some of his peers settle for jobs to pay the bills. "A lot of students come for the dream job, but then it becomes the reverse. They have to take a loan to get an education to get a great job, and then they take whatever they can to repay the loan," he says. Although Dev says he wouldn't want to relive the triple jump, he's very glad he did it. "Getting what you really want or being close to what you really wanted is what makes a $100,000 MBA worth it. Otherwise, why pay all the money to do the same thing which I was doing before the MBA?" |
