Hello reader. Perhaps you are just a few weeks away from beginning your MBA studies here at Kelley. Even now, you are clocking in your last few days on the job, saying goodbye to friends and eating your final meals in the office break room. The classrooms and colleagues of Bloomington await you. However, you will be astounded at how quickly time passes. Before you know it, you will be sitting across from recruiters, pontificating on your strengths, your weaknesses, and the experiences that have most shaped you. What will set you apart from the dozens of other applicants vying for a job in today’s crowded market?
Participation in GLOBASE Ghana will provide you with compelling stories to share in those interviews. Imagine sitting across from a recruiter next spring. After exchanging pleasantries, she launches into questions:
“Tell me about a time you faced a challenge.”
You respond with a story from GLOBASE, describing the challenge of learning a foreign market in order to make relevant recommendations to an international client. Your team’s initial recommendations, formulated in Bloomington, had to be nuanced when you arrived in Accra. You learned how to be dynamic and flexible as the situation demanded, adjusting quickly to new realities.
“Tell me about a time you exercised leadership.”
Again, you share a story from the Ghana trip. The Ghana program is the only GLOBASE course that includes a module devoted to Leadership Development. During the course, one-on-one mentorship sessions and group feedback on a range of leadership qualities allowed you to grow significantly as a leader.
“Tell me about a time you were stretched beyond your comfort zone.”
Perhaps you speak for a little too long on this question, but there are so many stories to share from Ghana! Bartering for mangoes in a crowded African market, visiting a rural village and shaping shea butter with clients, walking over the swinging rope bridges in a jungle canopy…yes, you have certainly stepped outside of your comfort zone!
Leadership, challenges, growth, and fun! Participation in GLOBASE Ghana provides all this and more.
