Where Are You Now?

Geoffrey is proud to have accomplished his self-development goals. In 2018 he decided to pursue an MBA part-time through the SEGi College Penang in Malaysia. He graduated with distinction and received the Alumni Achiever of the Year Award 2022 from the University of Sunderland.

He said: “I consider these to be my great achievements. They have elevated my self-confidence and a sense of self-esteem for having done something worthwhile. Additionally, this has motivated me to have autonomy to pursue high quality work for stakeholders’ assets to optimise earnings as well as build net worth in finances and portfolios to realise their anticipated investment objectives.”

Asked about his biggest challenge, Geoffrey said: “The biggest challenge is to rebalance stakeholders’ assets portfolios when there is a weakening of the global economy or social-political issues that lead to divergence of asset market.

“This has become the essential management task to circumvent the asset market volatility conditions that can potentially jeopardise the overall company’s short term and long-term financial performance. Thus, the ability to utilize a strategic management approach to make changes and execute action plans to safeguard assets, investments, and reduce liability are being seriously challenged.”

Geoffrey was attracted to the University of Sunderland programme at the SEGi College Penang as the course modules were what he was seeking and were very much aligned to his job profile.

He said: “The outward-looking as well as uniqueness of the MBA course attracted me to the University. The MBA course modules were academically dedicated to the students’ needs, and were both interesting and appropriate to the industry.

“I enjoyed the MBA course as it allowed me to put academic knowledge into practice. The course helped me to take my business administration and management skills to the next level.”

Geoffrey was impressed with the way the course related well to practice making learning easier.

He added: “The University’s Business School provided consistent feedback and support on each module assessment. The academic knowledge gained from the MBA helped me to transform my attitude and viewpoint in creating a productive work environment within my organisation.”

Geoffrey’s advice to recent graduates entering the job market is the following:

• Organisation: Align and uphold ways of working according to an organisation’s mission, culture, objectives, goals, and social responsibility to stakeholders.
• Workplace: Embrace good work ethics, make the most of academic strengths and skills learned to practice, take initiative to perform competent work with enthusiasm and to get noticed, inspire passion in work, and take positive actions to execute new challenges or obstacles.
• Self-development: Adopt self-improvement habits, learn from mistakes and take corrective actions, seek opportunities to learn new things, and display teamwork and leadership when participating in an organisation’s activities.
• Customers’ expectations: Meet customers’ satisfaction is the top priority, provide quality and reliability products or services assurance to customers, learn and implement added value industrial quality management techniques, such as TQM, TPM, FMEA, and among others for continuous quality improvements to operational activities to ensure customers’ loyalty, sustain an organisation’s brand, and achieve business growth.

Geoffrey’s plan is to complete a PhD. He concluded: “The purpose will be to explore new industrial knowledge skills and feasible findings that have significant impact on industries and customers’ expectations. Subsequently, the research study will have a sense of value to constitute innovative business processes to benefit society and the environment.”