Hans-Jürg Schär
Senior Executive in the Car, Watch and Gemstone Industry (retired)
B360 Advisory Board Member
Faculty of Management Sciences
Department of Marketing and Logistics
Namibia University of Science and Technology
September 03 - September 14, 2018
Being at NUST for the 6th time, the planning process as well as getting started was easy. This time I worked with 126 marketing students during 34 lecturing hours. All students were interested and active, especially the ones in the evening classes. Besides the basic marketing principles, I taught them aspects of communication strategies, pricing management, value and supply chain management, customer care and relationship management
The cooperation with the university staff was again very good, responsive, frank and respectful, for the preparation period as well as during my stay in Windhoek.
A special highlight this year was the participation in the Career Starter workshop. Sabina Balmer was running the first B360 Career Starter Workshop for unemployed NUST graduates while I was at NUST. She asked me to help run one-on-one practice interviews with three of the workshop participants. In addition I was on a panel assessing the performance of the final presentations of all workshop participants. This experience confirmed that with proper coaching the NUST graduates are self confident young adults, who are ready to work in a business environment; they just need to get the chance!
Biel, October 2018