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“The Journey of a Thousand Miles Begins With a Single Step”
Lao-Tzu
Ioannis VaganofLUMS AlumniMSc E-Business & Innovation, 2013-14
Open Postgraduate Day | 25.02.2016
Content
1. The “Social Greek”!
2. MSc E-Business & Innovation
3. What Made My Student Life Easy...
4. What Career Support I Had...
5. Company based Projects
6. Be Social... More Important Than You Think!
7. EBINs after Lancaster...
The “Social Greek”!
Ioannis Vaganof
Hometown: Thessaloniki
MSc E-Business & Innovation, LUMS
MSc Informatics & Management, AUTH
BA Business Administration, UOM
7 years Commercial Experience
Social & 10th Anniversary Representative
EBIN Leadership Award
Alumni Adviser | Event Coordinator Lancaster Alumni in London
World Cup 2014, Gradbar, Graduate College, Lancaster
MSc E-Business & Innovation
E-Business
Innovation
IT Architecture
Projects
Management &
Computing
Team building
activities
EBINs 2013-2014
27 People – 11 Countries
Management &
Computing Background
Demanding
Challenging
Collaborative
EBINs 2013-2014
Team Building Activities (Forest Hills)
Skills:
Teamwork
Creativity
Leadership
Communication
Two times
Great fun
Key point!
What Made My Student Life Easy...
Multi-cultural environment
Professional & Friendly Staff
Experienced Professors
Scholarships
Funding for conferences/training
Excellent Facilities - Campus
Comfortable Accommodation
Work hard... Play hard - 24|7!
What Career Support I Had...
More than 20 One-to-one sessions
Complete transformation of CV
Changed 100 times!!!
Dedicated LinkedIn workshops
Advanced my professional social networking
Connections with many Lancaster Alumni
Never ending support (Start-middle-end-after)
Support in Applications and Interviews
Other: Events with companies
Company based Projects
Consultancy-based project
2 months
Multiple meetings
Deloitte, Thorntons
Dissertation Subject
References
Job Opportunities
Company based Projects
GOMC
28th/2.540 Teams (Global)
AdWords Campaign
Local Company
Opportunities
Company Projects Presentation
End of July
Project presentations
Start of dissertations…
Official Photo
Happiness Formal Day!
Be Social... More Important Than You Think!
10th EBIN Anniversary
Be Social... More Important Than You Think!
Christmas Event
Be Social... More Important Than You Think!
Barbeque
Be Social... More Important Than You Think!
The Only Master Course that made Hoodies!
Be Social... More Important Than You Think!
Greek Party – International Students
Be Social... More Important Than You Think!
World Cup 2014 – Greece Game
Be Social... More Important Than You Think!
Facebook Photo Competition
Be Social... More Important Than You Think!
Facebook Photo Competition
Be Social... More Important Than You Think!
Facebook Photo Competition
Be Social... More Important Than You Think!
Facebook Photo Competition
EBINs after Lancaster...
Associate Account
Strategist at Google
Dublin, Ireland
Product Marketing
Engineer at ASUS
New Taipei City, Taiwan
Business Analyst
Executive at TUI Group
Luton, UK
Consultant at Capgemini
Munich, Germany
Project Coordinator at
Endeavor Colombia
Bogota, Colombia
Assistant Consultant at
Taipei City, Taiwan
Cross Working Manager
at Amey
Cardiff, UK
Analyst at KPMG
Tianjin City, China
EBINs after Lancaster...
First role in the UK
Commercial & Marketing Executive, BCMY Ltd.
Responsible Printer Cartridge Recycling
Recycle4Charity.co.uk
£1,000,000 donations to 5,000 charities
ZeroWasteRecycling.co.uk
Most Innovative in the UK
8th place among 530 companies
1st phase of Pitch To Rich (Virgin Competition)
Role: Website Usability – Strategy – Online Marketing
27 EBINs
11 Countries/Regions
1 country had more students than countries number
6 countries had only 1 person each
3 countries had equal amount of students
So, the 11th country/region how many students had?
Quiz Time
The fastest answer wins a Lancaster University Gift!
27 EBINs
11 Countries/Regions
12 Students from China
1 Student from Greece, Colombia, England, Germany, Bulgaria, Thailand
2 Students from France, Nigeria, Russia
3 Students from Taiwan!
Quiz Time – Solution!
The fastest answer wins a Lancaster University Gift!
“The Choices We Make, Not The Chances We TakeDetermine Our Destiny”
I don’t know
Ioannis VaganofMSc E-Business & Innovation, 2013-14
Thank You & Good Luck!