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Aiming to grow international cultures further, I became part of the club\u2019s administration<\/h4>\n
As a freshman, I joined the Waseda International Festival (WIF)\u2014an international exchange club run by students with strong enthusiasm in global culture. WIF conducts activities focusing on exchanging international cultures such as food, folk dance, and music. We also hold two stage performances a year to display these cultures. Later, I decided to step up and take the administrative role because I wanted to get student\u2019s attention to international culture. I became the club\u2019s representative in my senior year.<\/p>\n
Running the club was challenging because it requires so much commitment from each member. The club was fundamentally driven by the members\u2019 passion. At the same time, gathering sponsorship and audiences require strong sense of responsibility. I had to be very careful balancing out the obligations and the fun. My role as a leader broadened my perspective and changed the way I interact with people. It cultivated my skills to bring people together and get them motivated.<\/p>\n
Making self-refl ection a habit leads to personal growth<\/h4>\n
In university, I mainly studied business and the Internet industry. In graduate school, I conducted research on user behavior in virtual environments and earned my doctoral degree. I focused my job search within the tech sector, where my expertise lies. I got my first tech job at an IT healthcare startup. I continued to build up my experience in different industries, with the focus on building my product management career.<\/p>\n
Every day after work, I refl ect upon how I behave, what thoughts enter my mind, and what decision did I make in response to events in the world around me. This helps me appreciate the contributions I\u2019ve made at work and understand what I need to work on. I think this self-refl ecting habit is the key to skyrocketing my career.<\/p>\n
In school, you should use every opportunity to explore your strengths and your passion. Make self-reflection a daily habit. Review what happened in your day and how you react to it. This will help you discover your strength and passion and reveal the areas that you can improve. This habit will signifi cantly accelerate your personal growth.<\/p>\n
As a representative of WIF, the job of leading over a hundred members of diverse nationalities and values was tough. The differences in culture and nuances in communication sometimes led to confl icts. In such cases, I often mediate by advising the parties to revisit the goals and encourage them to reconcile for a better solution. WIF\u2019s goal was not to put together good performances but to engage its members and audiences to deepen their interest and empathy for other cultures. I learned that building the goal together and collectively aiming for the same goal is essential in bringing people together.<\/p>\n I conducted research on the \u201cDevelopment of Leadership through eSports\u201d during my master\u2019s and PhD years. I also presented at international conferences in Spain and Bangkok. My research is the utmost important foundation for my product manager career.<\/p>\n Waseda Summer Session attracts international students from overseas to experience university life in Japan. I contributed as a student administrative staff and guided the international students around Tokyo.<\/p>\n Thanks to my academic supervisor at graduate school, I had multiple opportunities to escort government of\u001f cials from Thailand who came to Japan to evaluate Japanese ICT policies. This experience deepens my interest in the IT industry.<\/p>\n I have worked on many well-known consumer apps such as FiNC, Pairs, and Amazon Shopping. I moved on from Amazon Japan and currently working as a Director of Product Management at Catalina Marketing Japan. The foreign company provides affiliate marketing services powered by its\u2019 largest shopper history database in the world. My work is very challenging and rewarding because I get the chance to identify customers\u2019 problems, develop solutions, and measure the effectiveness of my solutions. I think that seeing the impact of the solutions that I provide is the most appealing part of the product manager role.<\/p>\n Throughout my professional experience, I have been working with multinational team members. As a trilingual speaker, I am the bridge between Japanese and foreign talents who don\u2019t understand the languages and, most importantly, the cultures. My club experiences have equipped me with the skills to cope with this multicultural environment.<\/p>\n \u203bThis article is reprinted from Future Design Guidebook 2020.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Graduate Interview Catalina Marketing Japan K.K. Tinnawat Nuangjumnong\uff08Graduated from the School of Internatio […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":11583,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[142],"class_list":["post-11582","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-success-en"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/career\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11582","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/career\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/career\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/career\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/career\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11582"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/career\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11582\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11587,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/career\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11582\/revisions\/11587"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/career\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11583"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/career\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11582"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/career\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11582"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/career\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11582"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\u00a0\u00a0<\/a><\/a><\/p>\n\u3010Encounters at WASEDA\u3011The key element in bringing people together is to build and share the same goal<\/h4>\n
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\u3010Current Job\u3011Identifying customers\u2019 problems and developing solutions make my job meaningful<\/h4>\n