(graduated in 2011)
Executive Management Assistant, transport engineering industry (5.000 employees worldwide)

"My initial drive to study International Business Management at the Carinthia University of Applied Sciences was my interest in languages, business and cultures. After two semesters in Villach with interesting seminars, projects, excursions and guest lecturers, I decided to go abroad. As I had already been to the U.S. and to Ireland during my Bachelor degree, I wanted to experience a country that is culturally more different. So I went to our partner university in Istanbul. 

During this semester we also had the challenging task to undertake an interregional project for a company. We formed our own project team consisting of six students from five different cultures, established contacts to an Austrian company that was interested in expanding to Turkey and conducted a market research project, offering strategic market entry options for our client. In this project we could use all the theoretical knowledge about project management, intercultural communication, international management and market entry strategies that we obtained in the previous semesters. Our client was very satisfied with the results and it was fun and challenging to work amongst different countries. 

After I graduated I moved to Cologne, Germany where I started to work for a renowned company. Here I can use my international experience, language and intercultural skills, theoretical as well as practical background that I obtained during my studies to coordinate our subsidiaries and assist the CEO in strategic decisions.

I can only recommend studying in Carinthia due to the good education, the unbureaucratic organization, the friendly atmosphere as well as the modern infrastructure and amazing landscape of mountains and lakes surrounding the university."