Spring Scholarship Results and New Endeavours

Courtesy: expertbeacon.com

We have come to the moment when the Spring scholarship application is done and we need to choose the winner. Overall, we have got 25 application: not so much but pretty good for the start. 35 universities have come to share our scholarship announcement on their websites and there were a lot of mentions on the 3rd party websites too. We thank you all for that!

We called our scholarship a Creative Workforce transition to emphasise the ways to achieve smooth professional step-up because we were totally aware of the problems prospective professionals may face. Strikingly, the entries we’ve received have greatly amplified our initial thoughts and ideas. As one of the participants put his opinion of that ‘Students lose the plot when their diligence to earn an A grade overtakes their knack to reap the real learning out of the education’.

So we set and started thinking. A first thing that came to us was to make the Scholarship rolling, i.e. to give it away twice a year instead of once. It will create a greater impact and will potentially get us more interns / apprentices.

The deeper thought was that we need to find a way to translate the real world virtues to the prospective professionals the way they’d understand. Yeah, we have got the Entry-level resume package where we give them a real resume and cover letter the way it should be. Yet, we thought we need a free and interactive way to get to them. And here we created a Career Classroom the way it should be.

So, we will give 80-minute long interactive video sessions (webinars) with our top coaches and instructors as well as participating college professionals. We wanted to make it easily accessible (we have got that through the use of tech.) and free (that’s tougher). That’s why we decided to give webinars for free for students of the 35 universities that supported us in the first instance. If your university is not on our list you still may register — yet, we will contact them and ask for a little help and promotion.

Ooh, now we are kind of happy with how it goes. And yes, the Scholarship winner. We have shortlisted 3 persons who did great jobs and supplied truly deep articles on how to facilitate the students workforce transition.

And the winner is Samuel Mursalin from

John Hopkins Carey Business School.

Congratulations!

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