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Our expanding global company is seeking dynamic and entrepreneurial minded individuals to add value to their team. We are looking for a young and driven manager for our surf lodge in located in the beautiful Costa Rica! Do you think you fit these qualifications and are you eager to get new knowledge and new experiences? Don’t hesitate and send us an e-mail!

Qualifications
• Bachelors degree in business management
• You need to speak Spanish and English
• Surfing experience
• Be structured
• Have managerial skills
• Good verbal communication skills
• High comfort level working in diverse environment
• Serious about taking their career in their own hands

What exactly will you be doing?
• You will be in charge of planning and organizing weekly schedule and logistics
• Management of day to day retreat operations
• Management of guest arrival
• Management of human resources, including hiring and training a good work team

This job fits me well for a couple of reasons. The first one would be that it is abroad, one of my goals is to leave Belgium as soon as I have my bachelor’s degree, so the fact that it is in Costa Rica is a must. Another reason this job really appeals to me is that you need to speak both English and Spanish which I do. The last reason would be that it would be a great experience and full of opportunities. It might not seem as something big, but I think as a just graduated student that this job would help a lot with my point of view on the ‘working world’ and everything that comes with that.

I think this fits the IBM learning outcomes, first of all because it is an international job, something different from Belgium, and we learned how to deal with cultural differences and how to handle these. There is no need for experience is this job but you do need a bachelor degree in international business, this refers to the level of comfort you have with logistics, economics and other topics. In the class of TMD we learned how to be good managers, we got some good tips and tricks from some managers who are already working in the field. So I feel this would be a big advantage to know how to handle situations as a future manager.