{"id":4238,"date":"2017-04-11T10:40:38","date_gmt":"2017-04-11T10:40:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/tourism\/?p=4238"},"modified":"2017-04-09T10:50:40","modified_gmt":"2017-04-09T10:50:40","slug":"graduate-maris-kuklis-is-mice-groups-account-manager-at-etihad-airways","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/tourism\/2017\/04\/11\/graduate-maris-kuklis-is-mice-groups-account-manager-at-etihad-airways\/","title":{"rendered":"Graduate Maris Kuklis is MICE &amp; Groups Account Manager at Etihad Airways"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Graduate <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/mariskuklis\/\">Maris Kuklis<\/a> is MICE &amp; Groups Account Manager at Etihad Airways\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/tourism\/files\/2017\/04\/Maris-K-Headshot-e1491734989936.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4239 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/tourism\/files\/2017\/04\/Maris-K-Headshot-e1491734989936.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"475\" height=\"519\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>He says &#8220;I studied BA (Hons) Tourism Management. Graduated in 2008. I\u2019m working now for Etihad Airways. My degree helped to set the stage for the start of the career in business tourism. It was very relevant as offered a great choice and relevant subjects studied, to mix of people we met and made lifetime friends with some of which we are working in my day to day job. Without this course, I would not be where I am today.<\/p>\n<p>Previous jobs included \u00a0<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"lazy-image pv-position-entity__logo-img pv-entity__logo-img EntityPhoto-square-4 loaded\" src=\"https:\/\/media.licdn.com\/mpr\/mpr\/shrinknp_100_100\/p\/6\/000\/232\/1f3\/28efd72.png\" alt=\"Dubai Business Events c\/o Hills Balfour\" \/>\u00a0Senior Manager &#8211; UK &amp; Europe Dubai Business Events c\/o Hills Balfour\u00a0<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"lazy-image pv-position-entity__logo-img pv-entity__logo-img EntityPhoto-square-4 loaded\" src=\"https:\/\/media.licdn.com\/mpr\/mpr\/shrinknp_100_100\/AAEAAQAAAAAAAAe3AAAAJDYyNWM4OTJlLWM1ZmEtNGUzMi1iNjhjLWQzNjQ1Njk0Mzc4Ng.png\" alt=\"Travel and Tourism Research Association\" \/>Creative Producer and Editor,\u00a0<span class=\"pv-position-entity__secondary-title pv-entity__secondary-title Sans-15px-black-55%\">Travel and Tourism Research Association,\u00a0<\/span><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"lazy-image pv-position-entity__logo-img pv-entity__logo-img EntityPhoto-square-4 loaded\" src=\"https:\/\/media.licdn.com\/mpr\/mpr\/shrinknp_100_100\/p\/1\/005\/081\/07a\/2c67b20.png\" alt=\"Hong Kong Tourism Board\" \/>\u00a0Senior Marketing Executive, MICE\u00a0<span class=\"pv-position-entity__secondary-title pv-entity__secondary-title Sans-15px-black-55%\">Hong Kong Tourism Board,\u00a0<\/span><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"lazy-image pv-position-entity__logo-img pv-entity__logo-img EntityPhoto-square-4 loaded\" src=\"https:\/\/media.licdn.com\/mpr\/mpr\/shrinknp_100_100\/p\/3\/000\/082\/296\/100a89d.png\" alt=\"Cosmos Holidays\" \/>\u00a0Product and Commercial Executive Cosmos Holidays.<\/p>\n<p>A combination of group work, presentation and variety of subjects from finance, to accounting to small business management. As well as fantastic lecturers, the field trip to Cyprus in year 2 and wealth resources available through at the University from books to online reports.\u00a0My BU experience\u00a0was\u00a0live changing, and motivating for my career and life in general. \u00a0I was also involved in BU Athletics Club and setting up the Student Entrepreneurship Club called Business Mania.<\/p>\n<p>I would advice recent graduates looking for work to:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Talk to family and friends if they know of any job openings through friends \u2013 ask for recommendations.<\/li>\n<li>Join key industry Associations where potential employers may attend \u2013 have a business card ready.<\/li>\n<li>Gain as much work experience as possible through various paid and charity work.<\/li>\n<li>Update your CV and Linkedin Profile with most recent information \u2013 ask someone to proofread the profile. Have a professional looking headshot profile picture.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Graduate Maris Kuklis is MICE &amp; Groups Account Manager at Etihad Airways\u00a0 He says &#8220;I studied BA (Hons) Tourism Management. Graduated in 2008. I\u2019m working now for Etihad Airways. My degree helped to set the stage for the start of the career in business tourism. It was very relevant as offered a great choice and&#8230;  <a class=\"excerpt-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/tourism\/2017\/04\/11\/graduate-maris-kuklis-is-mice-groups-account-manager-at-etihad-airways\/\">Read more &raquo;<span class=\"sr-only\"> about Graduate Maris Kuklis is MICE &amp; Groups Account Manager at Etihad Airways<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":327,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[436,164,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4238","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alumni-news","category-news","category-student-experience"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/tourism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4238","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/tourism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/tourism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/tourism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/327"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/tourism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4238"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/tourism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4238\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4240,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/tourism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4238\/revisions\/4240"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/tourism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/tourism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/tourism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}