Reflective Report

Reflective Report

In this first part of the report, I am going to describe what kind of soft skills I have already, the way I got them, analyse what soft skills are needed to be looked and improved in the near future. (during the Business Skills course)

To begin with, I want to introduce myself. I am currently in my third year at Plekhanov Russian University of Economics and I am concentrating in national and regional economy, finance, accounting and macroeconomic planning and forecasting and now I am doing my exchange programme called International Business Experience at Hogeschool Rotterdam.

During my past years at University, I have acquired a number of important soft skills. First of all, from my first year to the end of the second year I was the head of my studying group and was responsible for the group of 25 people, I had to organise meetings with them, informed about latest news. Doing this work helped me in gaining basic of business communicative skills because I had to deal with 25 different people in different situation. In addition, my specialisation at university is macroeconomic planning and forecasting and studying this programme helped me be good with numbers and I’m able to work on with a lot of numerical information, understand and analyse it in an appropriate level.

Last fall I took part in Global Management Challenge 2012-2013 and in Banks Battle 2012 on a top manager position, these are one of the largest Strategy and Management Competitions based on business simulations. That experience has supplied me with many soft skills. For instance, I was the captain of the team of 4 people and this position boosted my self