Alumna Shares Her Professional Experience and How to Use Design Thinking

On 24 April the OSCE Academy’s alumna Assel Mussagaliyeva (class of 2005) conducted a short interactive online lecture on how to use Design thinking for developing one’s career. Assel currently works as a Manager of Industry Consulting Projects for ESSEC Business School in Singapore. She shared some of her insights on how to better navigate the working journey, how to plan job hunting as well as why it is important to find your calling and transform your job into a passion. She recommended to our viewers to be unconventional and think out-of-the-box based on her own example, of how she grabbed the attention of an influential CEO of Lazada group with a short elevator pitch, that let her win a major project with them.

Assel also recommended the participants several books that could guide young professionals in their career and personal development. Among them, ‘Neither Civil nor Servant: The Philip Yeo Story’ by Fook Kwang Han and Peh Shing Huei, ‘Blue Ocean Shift: Beyond Competing - Proven Steps to Inspire Confidence and Seize New Growth’ by W. Chan Kim and Renée Mauborgne, ‘Start-up Nation: The Story of Israel's Economic Miracle’ by Dan Senor and Saul Singer, and ‘The Lean Startup’ by Eric Ries. 
 

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