In the beginning…
So how did this all begin?
Just around Thanksgiving, in 2007, I was talking to some of the students at Hult International Business School. As a school that primarily attracts international students, and boasts of a global campus footprint, I was eager to stay in touch with my Alma Mater, and that involved talking to current students and helping them with their post-MBA career planning. Honestly, I don’t know how successful I am in ‘helping’ them, but I do whatever I can anyway.
During some of my discussions that I started observing some commonalities in the questions that international students have. They were similar to questions that I had, when I was nearing graduation and eager to hit the job market with my newly earned diploma. I did some research and realized that, although school career services do all they can to help students launch their career, international students need special attention and active support of alumni in their location and industry, if they were to succeed in any way. My research (the highly sophisticated methods I use involve Google, at the most) resulted in a realization that I will need to connect all these people, who come from different countries, have different cultural mind-sets, but share a common goal.
In November 2007, I saw the problem.
In December 2007, I envisioned a solution.
In January 2007, I started implementing the solution, to see if it actually solves the problem.
And thus F1Pages was born.
Let’s see what happens.
