Preparation for My Career

I graduated in late 2010 from EFI and IFL in the fields of Accounting and Finance, and English for Professional Communication. Before having a career I think I want at least a few great achievements i will always be proud of myself and great contributions to the society I live in. I have achieved many things so far counting from joining 2 youth leadership exchange programs to China and Korea, being vice president of the most successful sale and recruitment team(icx), president of Aiesec branch at ifl which got the most awards in mini-mini conference(2awards for icx and comm teams), 3rd place bronze price for National SME Business Plan Competition, and becoming manager of Young Leaders Challenge which has been improving rapidly in terms of quality in training and supporting system. YLC is to inspire and coach youths to do business plans and organize a business plan competition at the end of the program. YLC will be a great impact to the society in the long run, these members faci and participants may not start their own business or projects immediately but they will have a clear guidance about business plan and will be able to start their own project and business in the future. They may forget my name and what my team and i have supported them, but i dont care. As long as it is for my community and my society, i am willing to sacrifice my own time and effort in doing that, and i am very passionate in helping my peers as well as my people to be the business or project leaders in the near future. I strongly hope you guys wont let me down. Be the best leaders and impact other citizens, my friends. It is high time for us to do it. The world is moving fast thus we need to run. Although we were weakened by decades of war, we are Khmer, who were able to build more than one thousand temples, that's not because of magic but our intelligence. We should be proud of ourselves having born as Khmer, dont praise others and look down on our great Angkor intelligence. All I want is our intelligent, peaceful and helpful citizens again become the great nation in the region and the world.

At the same time that i had these achievements and social contribution, i also gained experiences and developed myself noticeably. When I look back, i have enabled many people to advance themselves, including many friends in ICX team, lc ifl, my classmates, YLC oc members, faci, and participants. Most of the opportunities i had are from AIESEC, i do love it. It is the excellent platform where leadership roles and opportunities to be initiative and creative are fully given to many individuals. When we are member, we learn some, but when we become the leader or manager, we learn mountains of knowledge. There may be no one to guide us what to do, but if we challenge ourself and figure out solutions and put them into practice, we will learn much. In short, AIESEC is the lab for me to test and develop my leadership. It is a place to make me realise who I am. Of course, before AIESEC, i was a shy, poor at speaking and pessimistic person, I never imagined myself as a leader, but i realised one thing; "use your strengths to work, avoide your weaknesses, and at the same time advance your strengths and minimise your weaknesses". The most important point to utilise this strategy, you need to know yourself. I know that i am poor at communicating, public speaking, networking, critical thinking, flexible thinking, and debating. But i was blessed with strategic thinking, initiative, persistence, hard-working, and risk-taking. Thus i challenge myself by working on what i was poor at; i chose to be vice president of icx which is sale and recruitment team, i could develop myself much during that time.There we also worked as a team and as a family, everyone worked and shared how to worked well. Of course, some people might think m not a strong and decision-making leader, but i did enjoy much when i saw everyone involved in sharing knowledge and thoughts. We discussed how to contact with schools, what words we should use to talk with them, how to present ourselves and our product to attract customers. Everything in icx team was created by the whole team. I tried to impose leaderships-role sharing strategy by giving each person chance to lead others, but it didnt work well, because all functions in icx didnt all run. I do love you, my ICX family.

Now, I have these great achievements and contribution, though may not be great to others, it's time to start my career. my dream is to become an entrepreneur and the CEO of consultant and investment company. I have prepared myself so hard towards that goal. Honestly, this goal was just developed during my @life. Before joining @, I thought of my weaknesses only and my previous goal was to become an auditor or government officer where everyone earns very high income, I wanted something that is stable and doesn't require much leadership skill. my dream used to be a normal life without any big challenges nor developments. As I have mentioned, I never imagined myself as a leader. However, AIESEC made me realise something special, my talents. And I want to be a great person who will work with lots of interaction and creativity, be able to develop my society welfare and become a hero in my career. Thus, my eventual goal is to be entrepreneur and CEO of consultant and investment company. "Give a person a fish, and you’ll feed him for a day. Teach a person to fish, and you’ll feed him for a life. Support a person to run a company to fish, and you’ll feed hundreds of people for hundreds of years."

I have prepared myself towards entrepreneurship so far. First is my leaderships, I challenge myself and figure out ways of being a good manager. Although, I still have a few weaknesses, I have experienced many leadership roles, compared to my peer. ALso, business ideas always popped up to my mind, and I always note down in my phone. I also tried to involve much with business plan competition and finally I won the bronze medal from National SME business plan competition. At the same time, I am the Young Leaders Challenge manager where I can learn much from participants' business ideas. I met a few managers, and I realised that many elders are willing to help our generation to succeed. I were very grateful for them.

After I won the 3rd place at National SME business plan competition, I started to focus on searching for my career. Now I see one great opportunity given by Emerging Market Consultant who will create a project related to incubation centre which is to help early-stage business to grow. I really wish I can utilize my experience and work at that consultant company. I want it badly. I passed to the final round, and next week at most, the result will be released. I also applied to the stock exchange company, but luckily I didn't accept their offer. Just now, the ministry has banned these stock companies from selling golds and other currencies. For the consultant company I applied for, I really believe I have the right qualification for them. Nowadays, there are very few people having experiences related to young entrepreneurship and leaderships roles like me. I will work at my full potential for the company if I am recruited. I can't wait to work there. Although, I do believe in myself, I still feel worried about it, I have never felt like this before. Perhaps, it is the only opportunity I can find right now. Of course, the world's trend is to focus on SME, but in Cambodia, that area is not very popular. However, I can envision that in the near future of 3 to 5 years, there will be many projects related to entrepreneur in Cambodia who will come to EMC to ask for consultant, because this company has high potential of being the market leader in the SME project consultant field.

Everything I have done is towards my goal. I am always and will be happy with what I am doing, I feel I am taking the right path. No matter what barrier is in front of me, I won't ever give up. I will stick to my plan.

Good luck to me. :)