Before having finished my studies, I moved to the city of Zagreb on account of its higher amount of opportunities when talking of service oriented jobs targeting international markets. I first took a job as a French speaking Customer Support Specialist within a Croatian startup, as the means to sustain myself while finding a position better connected to my degree. After 7 months, I was hired as an Inside Sales Account Manager for a Zagreb based recruiting and business process outsourcing company. I was targeting the EMEA region, yet with great focus on the DACH countries. Today I can happily say I am part of the industry I wanted to join since I currently work as a Customer Success Representative for an Australian SaaS company targeting the UK's market.

Having an innate sense of entrepreneurship and coming from an entrepreneurial background can result in being gifted with the right attitude, although not necessarily with the required aptitudes. Business and economics are fields everyone thinks they know about, when in reality one seldom finds individuals not educated in these areas, who actually begin to know of them. Engineers come up with and implement techniques, scientists understand the laws of nature, lawyers can structure and slither through regulations and professionals in Business Economics, exercise power over resources, may they be material, financial or human. That is what EFRI helped me understand. That my mission, and that of my fellow entrepreneurs and economists is to optimally allocate resources at all levels (small and large companies, non profit associations, governments, etc). We need to prevent losses, achieve stability, increase profits and reinvest into further growth and development.

Currently my exchanges with the alumni community take part mostly within the same circles I mingled with while still a student, keeping each other up-to-date, sharing and critically discussing tips, trends and insights of our industries. As I keep in touch with the faculty, I often serve as a link and bring its news to those I often communicate with. Alumni EFRI, as I discussed with other former students, should see to further develop the formation of groups of interests within industries and with different purposes. Also, and in order to preserve a healthy sense of belonging, there should be a holding of traditional, annual gatherings.