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Alumni, Pawel Kryjom

Bach­e­lor of Busi­ness and Admin­is­tra­tion, Degree Programme in Inter­na­tional Busi­ness 2006, CEO, Farm­Trade, Poland

I am the owner of Farm­Trade company located in Poland. Farm­Trade was estab­lished in 2005 during study time as intern­ship in local company. Nowa­days, the company is an offi­cial and exclu­sive repre­sen­ta­tive in Poland of several foreign manu­fac­tur­ers. The company makes a sole distri­b­u­tion network and sales of plas­tics for agri­cul­ture as well as agri­cul­ture machin­ery on the market. The company provides sales and after sales service vs spare parts.

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Currently, company employs 2 admin­is­tra­tion and 4 sales people that allow to cover distri­b­u­tion to whole area of Poland. The after sales depart­ment count 2 service/ tech­ni­cal persons that support dealers by after sales. Addi­tion­ally, I manage all sales and market­ing strat­egy concern­ing all prod­ucts from the range we are dealing with. The best part of my current work is network­ing and inter­per­sonal rela­tion on world­wide inter­na­tional society.

I started at NKUAS (nowa­days Karelia UAS) as an exchange student that comes to a Scan­di­na­vian country in order to get expe­ri­ence in study­ing at a Finnish univer­sity. After several weeks I decided to become full­time student because I real­ized that NKUAS offers me the real oppor­tu­nity to get some serious busi­ness knowl­edge, not only theo­ret­i­cal but mostly empir­i­cal, and life expe­ri­ence that was a great­est devel­op­ment in my career.

The Inter­na­tional Busi­ness degree programme caught my atten­tion for many reasons. Those reasons allowed me to estab­lish my own company. The inter­na­tional society at NKUAS allowed me to become a fluent member of the inter­na­tional busi­ness world. Active student life on variety of activ­ity on Finnish school allowed me to be a leader in the busi­ness life.

All case studies and prac­ti­cal trainings/internships as well as first subject I started my expe­ri­ence at NKUAS was an export project that gave me prac­ti­cal knowl­edge that I could not find anywhere else. During study time I consol­i­dated my inter­per­sonal and cross cultural skills. Nowa­days, I am daily dealing with part­ners from Europe as well as South America.

The best course that I attended was an export project due to reality of tasks. The subject reflects the real busi­ness activ­ity I am dealing with daily. The project allowed me to under­stand inter­na­tional trade and produc­tion chain itself. It was a good fun made by inter­na­tional teams and great experience.

Study­ing together with other foreign students allowed me to better under­stand inner working in multi­cul­tural envi­ron­ment. Currently, I face and inter­act with inter­na­tional suppli­ers and freely manag­ing all cross-border tasks and activities.

In the future I plan to invest my time to improve my language skills in order to under­stand mental­ity from our main foreign suppli­ers. I already started course of Italian language. However, in profes­sional work life the most impor­tant personal devel­op­ment is to gain the biggest special­ism on a working field. In my case it means to improve manage­ment skills as well as product knowledge.

I highly recom­mend to start a big adven­ture in a busi­ness world at Karelia UAS. The univer­sity is modern and well orga­nized. Karelia UAS gives oppor­tu­nity to study accord­ing to profes­sional method­ol­ogy which corre­sponds to real busi­ness cases. IB degree is a big chal­lenge and student social life in inter­na­tional envi­ron­ment makes fun and great atmos­phere overall. I believe also that expe­ri­ence at Karelia UAS can be a tram­po­line in your career as well.