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This post focuses on the story of Luna, who had recently studied in Paris, France. How did this study abroad experience change her from a person with low self-esteem into somebody who rediscovers herself and dives into a new career? Just read through it to know more!Â
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(Hiro) Why don't we start with when and where you studied abroad?
(Luna) I studied at IÃSEGÂ from August 2020 to February 2022. My actual commencement was the end of April 2022, when I submitted my dissertation. The programme was mainly divided into courseworks in the first year and internship (some four to six months) plus thesis preparation in the second which is also required (as for me, I had an internship at OECD, which will be detailed later). I have an impression that there are more 1.5-/two-year programmes than one-year in France.
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(Hiro) What brought you there?
(Luna) I got so absorbed in French movies that I decided to study French at college after graduation from high school. I also once went to a language school at the age of 21. The goal then changed to "someday I wanna live in France," but I did not take a chance as a college student because I was into studying electrical engineering. So after starting to work, I felt like there is no way but to use the study abroad system sponsored by the organisation. Literally my dream came true, although after going through some back and forth.
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(Hiro) Please share how you decided on where to apply and how you prepared for tests, essay, etc.!
(Luna) Although considered applying in French at first, I realised that my French ability had not improved as expected, partly because of my insufficient effort, I switched to applying in English. After then, I felt so much pain in preparing for TOEFL. I spent time almost evenly in Speaking, Listening, Writing, and Reading sections. As for reading, I tackled books provided at the study session that Andy-sensei held, which you also attended. , small prep E4TG for speaking, and Y.E.S at Ueno for writing, where I also improved listening. My score went up from 72 (right before taking the selection within the org) to 99 (next year's September). Very trivial, but in Europe British English was prevalent inc. OECD.
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(Luna) Not an easy thing, here are not so many grad schools in France where courses are taught in English. I first found ten, and applied to five of them. Unlike other people who asked consultants for help with essays, I made them by myself and kept receiving feedback from those who I know very well.
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(Luna) Not only just because I got an offer, but also because of the equipment for hybrid lectures during the pandemic, and the location as well made me feel more comfortable since some of my friends are in Paris. Although I once considered studying at another one, a mixture of study and life factors pushed my back.
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(Luna) The programme was International Business and Technology, which added management on the department of commerce to my understanding. As a newly launched programme, we are supposed to study theory of business strategy inside and outside France and knowledge on finance, as well as organisational and resource management in order to transform corporations based on contemporary issues such as the adoption of AI and ESG (Environmental, Social, and Governance). However, there is some room for improvement - contents of some courses overlap with each other, for example -, so once in every three months, the university sets up an opportunity where they directly hear voices from students based on the result of a questionnaire. To me it was something very new to convey my thoughts to those who are in charge of the programme and have a dialogue on the way grad school ought to be.
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(Luna) First of all, it was a surprise to me that leadership and HR management can be learned in a systematical way. I believe that they should be "core courses" to all Japanese professionals. In particular, we analysed a variety of cases (e.g. Hitler, Nightingale) with the lens of specific leadership patterns. Leadership is almost an attribute, which I could apply to myself. There is not "right" way of exercising leadership, and I felt diversity in terms of leadership behavior is important. Someone going forward like a bulldozer is not always an appropriate leader - my takeaway is that pondering upon what kinds of leadership behaviors are effective depending on team members as well as situation is indispensable.
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(Luna) As for HR management, there are people with diverse attitude toward work: from those who have little motivation to those who are too into it. They are roughly catergorised into nine patterns, and we should pay attention to how we as a team would move things forward. Humans are not robots, so our performance as a team depends on ways of thinking as well as values of team members. That brought home to me that our efforts would never be rewarded without giving heed to people. Leader does not equate with position, so both a director and a section chief can be a leader. Also, someone who does not have any sort of charisma but can trust and delegate to others can be considered to be a leader. It was a great lesson to me through this learning experience that I need to continue to think about what is a desirable leader with diversity of ways of working in mind. Another impressive course was that of negotiation, in which a professor who was once in charge of negotiation at UN shared practices on how to coping with your counterpart who negotiates very aggressively.
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(Luna) I was engaged in establishing database for science, especially decarbonisation, at the OECD (Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development). I emailed my CV coupled with a letter of recommendation, they seemed to think that this is a good match for them too. Despite my overall strugglle to get an internship, they kindly gave me a offer. Specifically, this project was to establish a thematic portal with a focus on decarbonisation by integrating an existing database of STI (Science and Technology Innovation) and show data visually with graphs and charts linked to database. You can see the actual database from here.re.
https://stip.oecd.org/stip/net-zero-portal
(Hiro) Sounds super interesting! Anything you wanna add on regarding this project?
(Luna) This portal is a culmination of the first-time collaboration bet the OECD and the IEA (International Energy Association). Buiding a consensus there is not an easy thing since the IEA has a focus on energy while we focus on science and technology. This means the IEA would say using coal is evil as it emits CO2 while the OECD as a science community would argue raising the effectiviness of buring coal could contribute to environment, for instance. In other words, our interests do not correspond with one another, and this is where I stepped in to strike a point of compromise. I strived to build a relationship by frequent communication, for frank discussion rarely happens among those high-rank professionals. Although it was time consuming, I took an initiative in planning, devising, and coordinating, including defining "STI policy for decarbonisation," which also raised my self-confidence.
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(Luna) It was hard to make friends to me. Also because of the covid, and there was no connection to alumni as this school was new. Therefore, it was such a wonderful experience to meet at language school or ballet class totally different people in terms of career and nationality from those who I spent time with at my grad school. Also appreciate working with my colleague at OECD during the pandemic.
Moreover, I had a hard time looking for my internship. The school staff advised me that it would be difficult to get an internship without being fluent in French at a career fair, but they did not provide enough support. I appied to ten or more companies, which ended up being unsuccessful. One of my classmates even applied to one hundred, moved onto an interview with ten of then, and got no offer. As I mentioned above, internship is part of our degree programme, so we cannot graduate without finishing it. But many of us had a struggle, and support from the school was apparently insufficient I would say.
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(Luna) It was almost natural for me, for I thought "I should choose by myself where I live. I would like to get learning and experience necessary for working as an individual rather than a part of an organisation." This is because I encountered those who chose their career by their personalities and specialties rather than organisation or nationality. I felt sorry for my previous colleagues, but I believed that rather than continuing my current career out of compassion, I should contribute to the society with my skills, which would in turn reward them. I loved my previous workplace, and to be honest, I felt kind of uneasy - that I might regret leaving there and diving into somewhere tottaly new to me. There are many paths to take - building on what you achieved while acquring new skills or changing your career environment - for your self-actualisation. I took the latter choice.

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(Luna) Study abroad will never make you regret if even a tiny part of your mind desires, although there is an issue of goodness of fit. If you feel uneasy, just create options and then live with your anxiety. If you prepare for your future while looking away from your uneasiness, just like me, the day 1 of study abroad will approach just in front of you. Life is life, sometimes easygoing... you can see something that you have never seen beyond it.