Alumni profile
Omoye Okoh, Full-time MBA 2008
For Nigerian-born Omoye Okoh a Bradford MBA added the international dimension to her business background needed to secure a senior position with a leading financial institution in Lagos.
Omoye, 27 was working as an audit consultant with PricewaterhouseCoopers in Lagos when she made the decision to take an MBA at Bradford for her own professional and personal development and to help her achieve long term career goals.
Returning home with her new qualification, she joins the International Banking Division of First City Group as a senior officer. From the head office in Lagos, (the Group has a subsidiary in the UK) Omoye's role will be to research and identify new business opportunities outside Nigeria and possible entry strategies.
Her MBA qualification has seen Omoye's basic annual salary rise by 130%.
"All the new knowledge and experience gained from studying abroad gave me the confidence to participate more actively during the rigorous interview process. Some of the technical questions I had to deal with were directly related to what I had learnt on the MBA programme. And the soft skills I developed through working and studying with people from diverse cultures and backgrounds is also recognised by my new employer and definitely played a part in my salary negotiation."
"I chose to do my MBA at Bradford initially because of its reputation as being among Europe's top 10 business schools, which then led me to do more research. It was important for me to know I would be learning from professors and business leaders at the forefront of their field and alongside a group of high performing peers."
She was also impressed with the support she received when seeking employment. This covered career planning, effective CV writing and applications, networking, interviews, dealing with positive and negative outcomes from recruitment activities, salary negotiation and accepting offers.
"I would advise anyone who is thinking about doing an MBA to go for it. There is everything to gain from an MBA programme and at Bradford I certainly had all the support I needed to ensure the qualification would not only benefit me, but would be knowledge and experience that could readily transfer to a new employer in Nigeria."
Omoye graduated in December 2008