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Is Your Child Ready to Fly Abroad?
Often parents who want to send their children for higher studies abroad worry whether it is the right time. The fear of the unknown, the newness of the experience, and the temperament of their child are some of the reasons for parents to feel hesitant about sending their kids abroad. If you, as a parent are unsure about your child’s readiness to go abroad, here are some key points to help you cross the bridge.
How to Know If Your Child is Ready to Go Abroad for Higher Studies
Is Your Child Mature Enough to Live and Study Abroad?
Maturity comes at different stages to different people. Some kids grow responsible and mature early on, while others may take much longer. To know whether your child has attained some maturity in thoughts and actions, by evaluating the following:
Is Your Child Responsible?
Some kids adapt quickly. They can pick up social cues, and learn to reorient their behaviour accordingly. Some like to be accepted and appreciated by all, and hence they usually are happy to conform. Others use social signals to take an assertive position. Which one of these behaviours is reflected in your child? Does your child manage his/her own tasks?
Do you have to constantly push your child to perform everyday chores? Does your child demonstrate an appreciation for safe practices, even without being told?
Even if your child does not display the winning traits of maturity, don’t write off the study abroad program just yet. Many parents have claimed that their kids picked up vital life skills when thrown in the deep end. A mother once wrote to us saying that her son, who did not know how to boil an egg learned how to fix a complete dinner after staying abroad on campus. There is a good chance that your child will develop the life skills needed when push comes to shove.
Is Your Child a Self-Learner?
You’d have probably learned by now what your child loves to study. You may find your child fussing about completing homework. However, if you observe that your child has a knack for picking up skills from the environment, initiating projects without your intervention, and pursuing areas of interest beyond the school curriculum, then you don’t have to worry. Your child is a self-starter, with a budding interest to go beyond his or her horizon of learning. Students who are self-learners can motivate themselves to push harder. They can bring in ingenuity into their learning.
Does Your Child Like to Do Varied Activities?
If your child is free-spirited and loves to learn new skills, that’s great. A program abroad will require your child to be a part of the larger pool of students and build a variety of skills: both academic and life skills.
Are you a proud parent of a child who is not only academically inclined, but a talented artist or a spirited athlete? Does your child love to take initiative and is quite a little entrepreneur in day to day activities? These are signs of a child with a holistic personality and has great potential to be highly successful during their time abroad.
Does Your Child Exhibit the Ability to Cope with Different Teaching Styles?
In an international educational program, schools follow a different pedagogy, compared to those in India. Students have to work through interactive classes, assignments, projects, and group study. Do you feel that your child is ready to accept new teaching methods? Have you noticed a keen interest in your child to experiment and go beyond scholastic learning? Understand your child’s awareness and interests. You will pick up telling signs that indicate your child’s capacity to learn in unstructured format.
Do You Find That Your Child Can Easily Adjust to Cultures Different From Your Own?
In most cases, children are more progressive than the older generation. They are more willing to accept different cultures, cuisines, and art. They enjoy experimentation, especially in food, dress, and customs. Does your child blend easily when put in a different environment? Does he or she emulate foreign ways, dressing style, food habits or art forms when you are vacationing abroad? Do you find that your child easily accommodates people of other cultures? It’s one thing to be fascinated for a short duration, but a completely different experience to live the experience every day. However, if your child finds that it is not difficult to adjust, then he or she is the right fit for study abroad.
Does Your Child Make Friends Easily?
While some kids are outgoing and easily make friends, a few remain shy and reserved. With a little encouragement, your child may find it easy to communicate with everyone in the group. Find out if your child has a wide network of international friends from school or on social networking sites.
If your child is empathetic, non-discriminating and keen to know about people belonging to an unfamiliar culture or demography, your child will have a smooth journey during study abroad. Even if that is not the case, kids pick up these skills soon enough. Some kids are adept at building relationships quickly; others like to take it slow after evaluating their options. In either case, they will learn to blend in their new surrounding.
Is Your Child Willing to Work Hard?
Get your child to value the education by encouraging your him or her to find employment on campus. By working on foreign campus, your child will pick up important work ethics. Emphasize the important of learning on the job. You can pick up signals about your child’s willingness to be self-sufficient when you express your views.
Does Your Child Demonstrate the Ability to Diversify the Learning?
There is a plethora of academic choices available, and you might find your child in a dilemma over what to choose. If your youngster consistently achieves outstanding grades in more than one subjects, besides their passion for those domains, study abroad will help them realise their dreams of discovering the desired areas. For example, US universities allow students to explore their academic interests in the first two years of undergraduate studies, and then choose to double major or major in one subject and minor in another, if that fits their need.
Is Your Child Alert to Safety Measures?
To prepare your child for a life abroad, it is necessary to teach him or her the importance of safety. Ensure that your child understands the need to practice safety at all times. Here are some safety tips that your child should follow:
1. Know Your Host Country.
Learn about their demographics, socio-economic profile, population density, language, culture, and their inclusivity.
2. Teach Your Child to Take Care of Valuables.
Ensure that your child is aware of dangers lurking in the form of street mugging, cheating, forgery, and fraud. While there is no need to unnecessarily alarm your child, it is important to be safe.
3. Stay Healthy.
Advise your child to take adequate rest from the daily grind. Prepare him or her to undertake every safety measure, should there be an illness or an accident.
4. Talk to Your Child About Bullying and Substance Abuse.
Though most universities have strict policies against college bullying and substance abuse, a few may escape the radar. Your child needs to understand the importance of raising an alarm in case he or she is affected by unwanted elements. Educate your child about the dangers of bad practices. At the same time, be open-minded and have a measured reaction to any news your child shares with you. You don’t want him or her to clamp up.
5. Teach Your Child Money Matters
Teach your child how to handle their finances by preparing monthly budgets, clearly demarcating “needs” from “wants.” Make them understand the credit system of the country where they will be studying and how to build a strong credit history. Assist them in researching the best student bank account options, before they open a local account. Guide them on how to identify verified and accredited sources when exchanging money.
6. Learn All Communication Channels
Communicating and keeping in touch with your child is very important. Exhort your child to communicate with you on regular basis, but be prepared to adjust according to their busy schedule once they have settled in their college life.
Let Go.
This is easier said than done for most parents. It is time for your child to fly away from the nest. Take a backseat as a doting parent and play the role of an effective guide. You will not be there with your child in the foreign land. Your child has to take their own decisions. Be a guide, not a supervisor. Facilitate them with the information and resources to take the right decisions. Let them know that if they will fall, you are there to catch. Be the pillar of strength.
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Is Your LinkedIn Profile Click-Worthy? 8 Ways to Improve Your Profile
Some people believe that LinkedIn is just a social networking site with a briefcase. However, in the past few years, LinkedIn has emerged as the go-to destination for all business professionals, job seekers, industry gurus, and market watchers to see and be seen. According to analytics, LinkedIn has long been especially popular with college graduates and high income earners, and this trend continues to hold true. 50% of online adults with college degrees are on LinkedIn. If you are a prospective candidate, looking to enhancing your business or educational skills, you cannot but help be a part of the LinkedIn family. Now that we clarified that bit, let us evaluate how to best position your profile to get maximum attention.
1.Love at First Sight? Yes, Magic Still Holds True.
Your LinkedIn profile should be appealing, honest, and click-worthy. Everything counts. A clear picture with a good background. Make sure to add a good headshot. Don’t put a picture of yourself in a party mood, if you don’t want your potential business colleagues or clients to form baseless first impressions. Prepare an updated resume. An interesting looking skills section that employers may actually want to see. Videos and slides in your profile to make it look sassy.
Employers looking for potential candidates don’t want to waste time reading long, boring, resumes to figure out whether you are the right match. It has to be love at first sight for them to be interested in your profile. If you have not used a catchy headline or a title to immediately summarize who you are as a professional, you will miss the bus.
Avoid inconsistencies. Don’t hype your profile. Resume padding is frowned upon by most professionals. In any case, your case will fall through like a ton of bricks when you will go through the interview process. Hence, it’s best you don’t portray what you aren’t.
Brass-tacks. Make sure that everything you put out there is: a) extremely important b) absolutely relevant and c) completely honest.
2. Do to Others as You Would Have Them Do to You.
Would you like someone sharing or liking your comments or posts? Would you feel pleased if others responded to your messages? Well, if it makes you happy, quite likely it makes others happy too. Don’t shy away from social niceties. This includes, sending out ‘likes’, ‘share’ or ‘follow’s. If you have a relevant comment to make, don’t hesitate. Some of the best friendships have sprouted from a mere comment on social media sites.
Having said that, you don’t have to go all guns blazing, and ‘like’, ‘share’ or ‘comment’ everything you see. Be selective in whom you want to engage with.
3. Be a Picky Reader and Share Only What Looks Good on You.
As an Editor, I always make it a point to write, comment or share topics related to writing. I believe it strengthens my case. If you seek to build yourself as a social marketing guru, it does not help your profile to share articles that are not in sync with your profile. While the occasional article you share on football are okay, you don’t want to seem like the guy who can’t think beyond NFL. Potential employers also want to know what you like to read or engage in during your spare time. I always tell my readers, “it’s not what you say that speaks about you, but rather what you choose to not to say that reveals the whole story.
4. Leave a Digital Footprint That Would Make You Proud.
Your LinkedIn profile is your showcase. A window to your personality. You don’t want to put your personal pictures, preferences, or your goofy side on a professional platform. Leave the unsavory images and videos for your private consumption. As far as your digital footprint goes, keep it clean.
Design your LinkedIn profile in a way that it leaves recruiters curious to know more about you.
Bait them with interesting information bytes.
Use action words to show what you accomplished in each job.
Add more meat to your profile by linking it to relevant visual media that grab eyeballs.
Make sure to link to relevant Facebook, Twitter, and other social media posts, or articles published on your blog or outside publications that add weight to your profile.
5. You are Known by the Company You Keep.
Do you know the CEO of Pepsi Co.? Or someone important at Google? Well, if you do, now’s the time to show off. Your LinkedIn profile gets more clout by the heavyweights you have gathered around you. That’s a no-brainer. So go ahead, and connect with the best of the best in your industry. In today’s age of hyper connectivity, your connections matter the most. So keep working on the company you keep.
6. Network, Network, Network!
Don’t have a cool gang to call your own? That should not stop you from networking. Every person you aspire to connect with are just a few degrees removed from your connection. LinkedIn has this great feature that tells you how you can connect with someone through a known friend or a friend of friend. Use your ammunition to connect with the industry’s top guns. It seems obvious, but it is easy to forget. You need to keep growing your connections as you meet people. Having a lot of connections helps to keep you visible to others because of LinkedIn’s system of 1st, 2nd, and 3rd degree connections.
That being said, while you can connect with people you don’t know, it’s preferable to connect with individuals whom you know personally, have worked with, or met in a professional capacity. If you want to latch on to another person to build your contact list, do so by gently developing a rapport or engaging with small talk and take the relationship forward.
7. It’s OK to Stick Out Your Neck for a Cause You Strongly Value.
Keen to talk about your project on waste management? Feel strongly about environment pollution. If there is a topic that sets a fire in your belly, don’t hesitate from talking about it. Potential recruiters want to see the spark in you.
8. Look Who’s Stalking!
LinkedIn has this unique feature where you can find out who has been checking out your profile. Here is your chance to break the ice and engage with top shots at the industry. Take the opportunity to network with relevant people in your industry. Work on your LinkedIn profile to attract attention. Right from the choice of picture, to the content you post, or the people you are connected with is the sign for others to engage with you.
Your LinkedIn profile is your gateway to corporate growth and professional success. Keep the relationship growing.
9. Ask for recommendations.
This is a big one. Think of people that you’ve developed a good working relationship with in the past. When you edit your profile, there is a link to click that says “Ask for Recommendations.” Click on it. You then choose what you’d like to be recommended for and can choose a list of people from your connections. Send it out and hope you get some great feedback.
Recommendations are a key to making your page stand out. Employers want to know that others have approved of your work.
Help your karma out and recommend some of your connections back.
10. Keep your page active.
LinkedIn is more than an online resume. It’s a networking social media site. That means to get the most out of it, you need to remain active. Check out what other people are posting. Engage them with thoughtful comments. Like and share posts that strike you as helpful.
Join groups that are on LinkedIn. Whatever your professional interests are from marketing to accounting, there are going to be groups talking about it. Join one or two and interact within that group. It’s a great way to meet some new people and share ideas.
11. Check your profile strength.
If you look at your current LinkedIn profile, there is a gauge on the right hand side that gives you a “Profile Strength” measurement. Essentially, this is telling you how completely you’ve filled out your profile. Keep adding more and using the site’s tips until that gauge rates you “All-Star.” It’s simple, but it can help you realize if you’ve overlooked something.
LinkedIn is a powerful tool and one that’s really easy to use. Make the most of it by optimizing your profile to grab attention, sell your skills and validate your accomplishments. You want your page to be visually appealing to visitors while making it easy for them to get a feel for who you are and what you really can do for them professionally. These 10 tips make a great start for building your winning LinkedIn profile.
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23 Oct 2017, 23:35
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Hacking the MBA Program at Cornell Tech
Have you ever wondered what it must be like within the hallowed halls of an Ivy League business school? Did you ask yourself at some point whether it makes sense to try for higher studies abroad? It’s natural that you have these questions. Sitting here in India, it is difficult to visualize how life will be on the campus of a foreign school. Since the academic curricula, pedagogy, and teaching facilities are starkly different from what you may have experienced here, it is not easy to fully grasp the nature of the education program and what will be the outcome of such an education.
ReachIvy invites its students to share their campus experience with young aspirants. We aim to create a knowledge sharing platform, where students who have made it to their dream colleges, can guide the others who are trying to achieve their own dreams. This exercise of lending a helping hand brings about a greater synergy of ideas, develops a rich network of alumni contacts, and helps everyone strive towards a greater economic growth.
Read how Aamer Hassanally completed his graduation in May 2017 at a prestigious MBA program at Cornell Tech.
After a successful completion of Bachelor of Arts in Commerce, Organizations and Entrepreneurship at the Brown University, USA, Aamer wanted to learn to build new, technology-led solutions. With over 3 years of valuable work experience at various reputed firms, Aamer decided that now was the right time to target the top B-schools in the USA. Aamer had his sights set on Cornell Tech, among other schools. Aamer had partnered with ReachIvy to fulfil his dreams. After a gruelling round of application, and tests, Aamer finally got admission to his coveted school. A year after his program, Aamer is now poised to launch his own startup. His success serves as an inspirational story. Once you read Aamer’s success story, you will realize that hard work and patience knows no failure.
Here is the Aamer Hassanally Success Story:
I graduated from the one-year Johnson Cornell Tech (CT) MBA in May, which was an absolutely incredible experience. My life at Cornell Tech changed my perspective on work entirely. Here’s what I have learned:
The MBA Course and Curriculum
The program consists of 3 semesters and a winter break immersion, each with a different focus with respect to the core curriculum:
1. Summer — Core Business:
The summer semester in Ithaca comes with a highly intensive course load, covering what is traditionally the “first year” of a traditional MBA program. On Cornell University’s beautiful Ithaca campus, you learn core subjects like leadership, critical thinking, statistics, finance, marketing, strategy, and the like. Most of the courses are taught in a lecture format, with plenty of case discussions to supplement. It’s very fast-paced, with a heavy workload, but absolutely worth the extra effort to jumpstart the next two semesters spent at the brand new campus in New York City.
2. Fall — Product Studio:
The bright colored falling leaves of fall in New York bring with them a roller-coaster ride of coursework and intensive projects. In the second semester in NYC, the core curriculum focuses on product development, with mandatory enrolment for Masters students in computer science, operations research, connective media, health tech, law and business. Cornell Tech uses a proprietary algorithm to create student teams based on functional expertise, domain knowledge and industry preference. These teams spend the semester building technology products with guidance from a mentor, matched with them from organizations like Amazon, Merck, the New York Times, Capital One, and the New York Mayor’s Office.
For example, I worked on a team of 2 CS students, 2 MBAs and a law student to respond to a challenge proposed by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation: “How might we improve financial health for low- to mid-income Americans?” By the end of the semester, we had interviewed stakeholders at policy think tanks, fin-tech start-ups, local credit unions, and low-income communities to develop a prototype of a lottery-based savings application (54% of Americans play the lottery while only 40% have a savings account). Meanwhile, the Studio faculty guided teams through the product development process, and organized monthly sessions for each team to get feedback from practitioners in the tech industry.
In parallel, I was enrolled in MBA classes like Operations Management, Digital Marketing, Designing Data Products, and Entrepreneurial Finance, which dovetailed nicely with the core curriculum.
3. Winter Immersion: iTrek (Optional)
Over the snow-filled winter break, students can participate in a 2-week, optional immersion in Tel Aviv for course credit. During the prior semester, teams that enrolled in iTrek were assigned consulting projects with two Israeli startups. Teams worked remotely with the start-ups to complete the projects in the fall semester and travelled to Israel over the winter break to showcase their findings to local investor panels. My team presented a go-to-market strategy for an accounting software company and an acquisition strategy for a healthcare device manufacturer.
4. Spring — Startup Studio:
In the final semester of the program, the core curriculum focused on startup formation and the dynamics of the venture capital industry. These classes are also mandatory across all degree programs, but in this semester, students self-organize into teams based on the startup ideas they generated during the fall semester. The class is taught by David Tisch, one of New York’s most prominent venture capitalist and entrepreneur. Start-up teams who wish to seriously pursue their ventures after graduation can also attend Startup Clinics, which are organized at school with advisors from New York’s booming tech ecosystem.
During this semester, I worked with a team of CS, MBA and Parsons design students to develop a usage-based insurance application for freelance workers seeking temporary coverage on specific gigs. We were able to reach out to advisors we had worked with in the fall semester, from Prudential and McKinsey to help validate and refine our idea. We also took our idea to the Fintech Hackathon at MIT, where our prototype was awarded the Grand Prize. Moreover, we were invited to deliver our pitch to Michael Bloomberg, and the Board of Cornell Tech.
In parallel, I was enrolled in MBA classes like Business Models, Sales & Business Development, Negotiations and Tech Strategy.
5. Life After Graduation — Startup Award:
At the end of May, two of my classmates and I applied for the Startup Awards to pursue our new venture full-time. We were among four teams selected by a panel of professors and professional investors to receive an investment from the University. We are now based in the new co-working space on the Roosevelt Island campus, which accommodates not only student startups, but also innovation teams from established companies such as Two Sigma and Citibank. We’re building an income management platform for the freelance economy, starting with a product that aims to improve the financial health of our customers.
I’m very excited to see how the next few years will unfold, with the challenges of starting this new venture, and also with the support of my amazing classmates and the University. I could not imagine myself in another MBA program, being happier or more successful.
Cornell Tech MBA Program
The curriculum was fast-paced, practical and implementation-oriented, and connected with current, real-world problems outside of the ivory tower of academia. More importantly, the relationships I’ve built at Cornell Tech are with some of the most diverse and resourceful people I know. I can now reach out to my friends who think like developers, data scientists, lawyers, designers, and business people, and who are all passionate about technology. This is definitely the most valuable thing I’ve gained.
Highlights of the Johnson Cornell Tech MBA Program:
The program is geared specifically towards management and entrepreneurship in the tech sector. So while the program won’t necessarily appeal to a general MBA audience, there are a several things that make it attractive, compared to a traditional MBA. A perfect example of this is the network that an MBA offers. Many of my friends from Cornell Tech are trained in disciplines ranging from law to computer science – this is something that a traditional program simply cannot match.
Who Should Apply for CT MBA?
Having said that, the Cornell Tech MBA may not be well-suited for everyone. For those who have career ambitions that are removed from the technology sector, or for those who may benefit from a more traditional business education or summer internship, Cornell Tech’s unique offering may not be a good fit for their educational needs. Cornell Tech is a new school, creating an entirely new type of business education – so things move and change fast. Prospective students should be prepared for this kind of environment.
My Message to Students Aspiring to Study Abroad:
There is a whole world of opportunity you need to explore. Don’t limit yourself to specific domains or interest groups. Come out of your shell and see the world for yourself. Every student who wants to study abroad faces roadblocks, but they should not deter you. Steel yourself for the long haul, and prepare yourself for a rollercoaster ride of learning and experience. The world is your playground.
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