Ivelina is now 28 years old and lives in Noerresundby, in Aalborg Kommune. She tells her story: "I choose to study Marketing Management, because I was a bit tired from my engineering studies and wanted to try something new, and the marketing management program sound attractive. I think my time in Dania was very good, both as a study place and a place where the culture shock is handled very good. "
Internship and university in England
Ivelina had her internship in Crewe in England doing marketing work and studying at the Manchester Metropolitan University at the same. "In Crewe I was Marketing and Lead Generation support activities intern in an international company which sales gases. I was mainly working with the recently implemented CRM system which the company was using in the search for potential leads for the company, but I was also part of every day ad-hoc activities and part of the organization of one marketing event."
It was Manchester Metropolitan University who found it the internship for Ivelina, who was an Erasmus student at the university. "I had four days in the company and one day at the University," Ivelina says.
CRM was subject for final exam
"I chose to write my final exam project with one classmate. The project was about implementing the CRM system which my company was using in the company where my classmate had her internship. They were using my company as a model - how they have done it, etc.," Ivelina continues.
She is now studying a master in Culture, Communication and Globalization at Aalborg University after her 1 1/2 year top-up at UCN in Aalborg. Ivelina has a cleaning job to support herself while living in Noerresundby.