So in light of me needing more sleep this one is going to be different.
As some of you know my resume includes: Business Club President.
And naturally they loved me. Every year since it's inception (my grade 11 year) we've ran a Celebration Night, celebrating the school's business alumni and present business achievers. In the year of my presidency here's what the wrote of me:
Arjun Kalburgi had a profound impact on the Campbell Business Program. From the very first day that Arjun joined the Business Club he brought an infectious energy with a passion for innovation. Arjun has helped the program think outside the box and explore new ideas. His passion and ability to motivate others was evident at every business club meeting. Arjun Kalburgi was the fearless leader of the Campbell Business Club and has served as an excellent role model for our junior business students. His impact on the business program will be felt for many years to come as his work in the area of sustainability was exceptional.
At work we landed a new gig with The Y and we are essentially competing with another Marketing Agency for an awareness campaign for The Y of the GTA. This is our biggest gig yet so my bosses brought everyone into the board room, explained the gig and laid down all the facts. And we spent the next three hours in the board room discussing and learning and bouncing ideas and oh boy it's a case competition for the ages!!
In the Business Program we would participate in Case Competitions, where we would be presented with a problem and we would advise a solution. So for example, in a marketing case the problem would be that sales in a company are down, we'd be provided with all the data from the company, and then we'd advise a course of action for the company. This is exactly what is happening at work. The Y has provided us with an "awareness case".
I want to go into it and explain everything but I don't know how 'hush hush" I should be keeping everything, so I'll just say this:
What we learn to do in those case competitions is not yet present in today's businesses. The company I work for is very young, no one is over the age of 35 and yet the structure and the thinking process required in the case competitions is unheard of from everyone here.
What we learn to do in those case competitions is not yet present in today's businesses. The company I work for is very young, no one is over the age of 35 and yet the structure and the thinking process required in the case competitions is unheard of from everyone here.
In my experience with one year of Engineering and one month of modern internship, Business Club is the only thing even close to teaching me what I need for real life that the education curriculum doesn't include.
I've spent the last month building an application using a programming language called Angularjs, a framework on top JavaScript which is on top of HTML. And I'll spend the next four years in Software Engineering and I already know I won't learn anything close to how advanced Angular is.
So this blog is to thank Clarissa Holinaty and Jordan McFarlen (find them on Twitter) and their Business Program. Only once I've entered the work force do I understand how significant the truth that our education system does not prepare us for the real world is. I'm ahead of a lot of other kids though, because at least I had Business Club.
~ASKalburgi