My recent activities...

Hello again after some time. I am getting used to my new assignment at Cisco Emerging Markets Partner Organization while undertaking other activities in my leisure time....well, as usual :-). The team in my initiative is growing and I am learning fast every day which is good.

I have again attended some CEMS events during the last few months, including traditional CEMS drinks, CEMS Team Building in Krkonose, CEMS Gala event. One special piece has been the CEMS Theatre, a play called Happy Prince from Oscar Wilde, performed by CEMSies. The video from this world first premiere can be seen right here . I have contributed with little piano accompaniment.

Apart from this, I am trying to be in close touch with my family. The last two months were full of big anniversaries when my mom celebrated her 50th birthday and my grandmother her 75th. After me celebrating my 25th this year in August, this big chain of our anniversaries will be over :-).

I am meeting my friends often and we have spent some nice moments together within last weeks, including this one:

Last but not least I spend a lot of time with my bf Lukáš who is great support of my out of work life and brings balance into everything around.

I am also trying to upload the speech from my graduation ceremony to be available for preview. However it is not ready yet and should be done in a short time.

Graduation Ceremony at VŠE, Prague

I really enjoyed both my graduation ceremony as well as the speech on behalf of graduating students. In addtion to that, my sister had her prom ball in the evening, so March 12 was a busy day and I am sure it has made our parents proud of us.

New full time job, new destination...Cisco Systems

On Monday, February 8, 2010, I started my first full time assignment after finishing the Master´s degree. I have chosen this job because it offered me to gain a lot of experience in starting a new worldwide initiative within the large American IT corporation. Actually, I like this company, because it is nearly as old as I am. Cisco was founded in 1984 at the Campus of the Stanford university by two students who invented the first switching system enabling interoperability of multiple operating systems. 

Cisco is betting on collaboration and that is definitely something I like about working there because I can make use of their own collaboration tools also internally.  The scope of my work is very international which is good, given the fact I studied International trade and International Management :-).

My position is called Program Analyst and I am responsible for monitoring a new incentive program for Cisco´s partners in the Emerging markets. So far I have been enjoying revealing complexity of another big corporation. Let´s hope I will keep up doing my job well and in sufficient pace.

Work hard, organize yourself, enjoy your free time and do not loose your motivation.

With this post, I would like to encourage all colleagues, friends and students in their career efforts. The time when you end your studies and decide about the course of your future steps is a critical period. Often we dream about some particular job. This ideal one does not have to be available on the job market at the time when we search for it. And then we have to compromise and find something else. It is important not to loose the motivation. We have to use all our credits, strenghts and knowledge. I went through some rough decision time in the past few months, dozens of interviews, tests, applications... I thought a lot about everything. My decision time is over, I am starting at my new destination on Monday.

P.S. Prague in winter is really beautiful.

Ing. Olga Nýdlová

So this is it...the end of my university studies...everything is finished, passed. I successfully defended my master thesis elaborated in cooperation with T-Mobile and Nokia.

There were some attempts to stop me from my success but fortunately they failed to succeed. In June on the way to my final exam, my tram hit a police car. This January when I went to defend my master thesis, my tram stopped because another tram in front of us had some unknown accident. So the result: I came always little bit later but in fact always in time :-).

The Graduation ceremony is scheduled to March 12, 2010 and I am preparing to be the student speaker.

Well, the 27 January, 2010 was a big day. Olinka becoming ing. CEMS MIM, celebrating 2 month anniversary with the new boyfriend, and Apple published its brand new iPad device :-). This is just ......wait for it....legendary.

Between Assignments...

I am one month and half back to Czech Republic and Prague.
And at the time, when our country celebrates 20 years of life in freedom, I am thinking about all options where I would use my potential, motivation and thrill for making my life and lives of others better.

My great supply chain master thesis is almost finished. Now it is time to ask where my steps will be heading in the next phase of my life. In the mean time, few other events with my friends from university kept me busy.I attended this year´s Gala Casino night organized by CEMS Club Prague, our CEMS year organized a visit to a Moravian wine-cellar again and last weekend I spent 3 nice days in Budapest at CEMS Career Forum and met international CEMSies again.

CEMS MIM - The n°1 ranked Master's in Management in the world !

The CEMS MIM has been ranked as the N°1 Master's in Management in the world in Financial Times ranking, 2009. I am very proud that my programme has made such a progress while I still have been actively enrolled.

Number 1 overall Master´s in Management Ranking.
Number 1 programme in General Management, Number 2 in International Business.
Number 1 on combined international criteria.

http://rankings.ft.com/businessschoolrankings/masters-in-management

http://www.cems.org/

Second Bonner farewell

I have to say that people at T-Mobile gave me a lot opportunities to learn and also to get the needed input for my diploma thesis which I have to finish now. I organized for my colleagues and friends from Telekom a goodbye party at the same place as last year - a rock pub called Musiktruhe. I was working hard during the last two months and I am leaving with a nice feeling and who knows....I might come back again.

Last weekend in Germany with my friends

The last visit of my person in Bonn this year were my friends from university - Verusha, Monika and Lenka who spent 3 great days with me. I rented a company car for us (very nice service for Telekom employees, indeed) and we went to the closest and biggest cities around Bonn - Köln, Düsseldorf and Koblenz. On Sunday afternoon we visited few villages around the river Mosel and girls tried out local wine in a nice restaurant. In the evening we enjoyed the Bonner copy of Krizik´s fountain in Prague (just joking). No , it was a water show accompanied with classical and pop-rock music, installed at the main square in Bonn. ´In German it´s called "Klangwelle". There were really crowds of people watching it and they did it as a memory of 6o years of German Republic´s existence.
Girls went on Monday morning to the City on their own and I set off to my third last day in T-Mobile. They left on Tuesday morning and there were just two more days for me to spend in Germany so I really tried to make the most out of it :-).

Martas, Evca and Hrusticka in Bonn

This weekend my Czech friends visited me in Bonn. Hrusticka was for the first time in Germany and I hope she had enough of real German experience. We tasted typical beer of Bonn - Bönsch, and also visited the biggest fair of Nord Rhein Westfalia - Pützchensmarkt where we had some Kölsch in a Bavarian tent. We did small sightseeing in Bonn City center and we concluded Saturday with a barbecue on my balcony and also my friends from Bonn - Stephan and Isabell - came around. On Sunday me, Ondra, Martin, Evca, Lucinka and Katka - big group of Czechs - went on a boat trip to Königswinter. The weather was not one of the best in Bonn but we enjoyed the day as well. Everybody liked the view from Drachenfels and we even had time for a nice cup of coffee afterwards. It has been a cheerful weekend which is something I really enjoyed in these days.