Autobiographical Sketch

My Vietnamese name is Kalisha Nguyen. I enrolled Vietnam National University –

Ho Chi Minh City University of Technology in Fall 2015 and attained my
Bachelor of Industrial Management in November 2019. I chose this school because
of its high reputation in Vietnam and worldwide. In 2019, my university ranks at
the top 701-750 leading universities in the world based on QS World University
Rankings, and of course, ranks 1st in Vietnam.
Throughout the studying period here, I had been leading several charity projects,
with the purpose to assist homeless children and elders. I found it really
meaningful to contribute our effort to our community. That is why by the time
when I took the Internship class, I joined an NGO - Malaysia Business Chamber as
an Admin and Event Intern then later became an Admin and Event Coordinator
there, where I started to learn about Vietnamese market and industry and got to
know many politicians and wonderful businessman from MBC, from Embassy and
from other chambers and embassy as well, how businessman connect to each other,
how the International Trade between other nations and Vietnam occur, how to
arrange a proper visit of crucial figures from other nations when they come to
Vietnam. During 2018 – 2019 period, I took part in tons of business events,
networking nights and luncheons, golf tournaments such as China – US Trade
Ward business talk collaborating with Standard Chartered, Malaysian Minister
Visit to FPT Vietnam, and so on,… After these events, I noticed the most pivotal
part of being the leader is networking skill, which I also find it as the toughest
skill. With nearly two working years, I know how to listen to the customers’ needs,
and how to handle problems and how to maintain relationships in the international
aspects. Working in the multi-cultural organization taught me that different people,
especially from different countries have different needs, and different reactions
towards the same situation as each country has its own practices and traditions.
Under such environment, I am more open-minded when it comes to unfamiliar
cultural practices. For example, it is a must to order Halal food for Muslim
customers.
During April 2019, NFU representatives came to our campus to recruit students,
however, the ranking of NFU is too many behind my university, at first, I did not
want to really enroll in, but after several discussions with an alumni here, I decided
to turn in my application and currently, I nearly finished my first semester here.
The first unbiased reason must be a chance to immerse myself in Madarin-
speaking culture, because Vietnam, especially Ho Chi Minh City – where my
career will be gone further, welcomes many Chinese companies from China and
Taiwan, indeed if I excel at both English and Chinese, language definitely becomes
my privilege over others. However, I chosen Finance to go further in my Master
Degree as I want to have a more deeper Financial view about the market to support
my Management skills I gained from Bachelor one to answer more particular
questions such as how equity index returns and exchange rate relates and so on.