On 18 May, 2008 MBA alumni of College of Business,SUFE and Vice President of the Human Resources Department of United Overseas Bank, Ms. Wang Rongjia, was invited to the Open Day of the “Business Elite Learning Program”, to explain to the attending white-collars on how to plan well their careers in the conditions of financial mixed operation.
Ms. Wang Rongjia shared her personal experience of career development with the audience, and then elaborated on such questions as “what the financial industry is”, “why it is an immediate task to understand the financial mixed operation”, “what the financial mixed operation is”, “how to discern and make use of the financial mixed operation”, “why to choose MBA” and so on. She also pointed out that the nature of finance was investment and financing and that traditional firms and investment banks were the backbones of the sector. As the market continues to improve, the simple divided operation business model in the past has been gradually replaced by the brand new mixed operation model thanks to the close internal correlation among different sectors of the financial industry. The conception of cross-industry cooperation and cross-marketing is attracting the attention and support of more and more professionals in the sector.
Afterwards, Ms. Wang expressed her views on the value of MBA education. She commented that the experience of MBA education could change a person's way of thinking, expand the social network, and provide the tools for solving problems, and thus arm him/her with more competitive edge in the market. At the end of the lecture, Ms. Wang had in-depth discussions with the participants and encouraged them to create more social values in the financial markets in the future.