Maxime Schreck

Agidrive puts talented students in touch with companies wishing to increase their turnover by stimulating their sales. It offers the former a formative and inspiring experience while enabling the latter to strengthen their sales teams by integrating tomorrow's executives and managers.

The Growth Program (called the Booster Program in Brussels) is designed for SMEs that have already reached a certain size and have ambitious growth objectives for the coming years. It enables selected companies to benefit from long-term mentoring by experienced entrepreneurs who have already gone through the key stages of business growth.

I was responsible for creating new leads, selling by phone and updating the CRM of the company. I was able to work on my cold call skills as well as my knowledge of Excel and Salesforce. It was a challenging experience and allowed me to think about new sales techniques that don't require me to go and meet the customer on the site.

UStart is the largest Belgian entrepreneurial network bringing together students from different universities and different backgrounds. As a member of the service department, my role is to form a bridge for students wishing to engage in entrepreneurship between the university and the professional world. In addition, as a "Starter Advisor", I answer their questions, guide them and challenge their ideas in order to help them make their project a reality. More generally, the club and the network that UStart forms offers an opportunity for students to get involved on the university campus, to organize and participate in trainings and to bathe in an ecosystem made up of members who are passionate about entrepreneurship.

LSM Conseil is a Junior Enterprise (European JADE network) from the Louvain School of Management. The objective is to ensure a quality service in strategic, marketing and engineering consulting for companies, allowing the students to enlarge their experience on the professional market. I work as a Project Leader in the Management Business Unit, which provides strategic and marketing consulting. Being a project leader is a great way to learn the value of professionalism and how to manage a small team of people in order to serve a real-life client. Leading such projects is an opportunity to use academic knowledge and to get a first insight into professional life.

I have had the honnor to be selected among with the best students from different universities to participate at the Bainworks weekend 2018 in Barcelona. During three days, I have met a lot of top consultants and talented students from different countries all over the world. It was the time to crack a case together, to learn specific ways of working and to share with members of a top consulting firm.

I worked as a sales assistant, usually for one month in the summer as a means both for earning and gaining experience in the workplace.

My university results at UCLouvain have enabled me to choose a university in which to do an Erasmus. With this opportunity, I decided to undertake a one-semester exchange at the prestigious Bocconi University, ranked among the top 10 best management universities in the world. The courses I followed during this experience and the grades I obtained are the following: - Negotiation and Decision Making Process (28/30) - Social Media Marketing (30/30) - Management of Fashion and Luxury Companies (30/30) - Managing the Growing Entrepreneurial Venture (30/30) - Fundamentals of New Technologies for Economic and Human Development (30/30)

The major CPME (creation of small and medium-sized enterprises) is an interdisciplinary master's degree in entrepreneurship. It brings together about 40 students from different studies and offers them courses specific to business creation. CPME is 2nd worldwide (1st in Europe) in the Eduniversal Best Master's Ranking 2019 in the "entrepreneurship" category.

The Master's degree in Management Engineering from the Louvain School of Management is designed to deepen the knowledge acquired during the first three years of the Bachelor's degree.

Business engineering studies offer a solid background in diverse fields like economy, management, statistics, mathematics, supply chain, physics, chemistry, social sciences en programming.

For a year I took part in the "Tandem Project". The Tandem Project is an experience born from the collaboration between the KU Leuven and the Université Catholique de Louvain that allows second-year students to be matched with a student from the other university to perfect a language. The goal of the program is to collect a number of stars during the year, stars that we can earn by meeting each other regularly. The program is not mandatory for students because there are not places for everyone but still enters into our final language course grade. Thanks to the Tandem Project, I was able to improve my Dutch and had the opportunity to meet a great Dutch-speaking student.