GBS is offering a new service where we give prospects the chance to meet us for a 1:1 consultation. We asked Recruiting & Admissions Manager Jacqueline what's behind this new service and how interested applicants can get in touch.

Jacqueline, you have already been on tour during this year’s recruiting cycle to represent GBS and the Master of Digital Transformation Management (MBA) in various cities. Could you tell us a little more about the new service GBS is offering to get to know the programs better?
Candidates interested in GBS master programs regularly live and work all across Germany – and even Europe. It can sometimes be overwhelming to travel to campus for a consultation especially when they are in the early stages of their information search. To make information and a personal face-to-face consultation as easy and convenient as possible, we decided to meet prospects directly in their city. I also think that it is sometimes easier to discuss individual cases and particular questions in person rather than via email or in a Zoom meeting. You can read facial expressions, body language, and ask for clarification right away. It makes communication much easier.

Will you be touring in other cities, too?
We will continue adding cities to our travel plans. If you do not find your city yet, just send us an email and we will make sure to meet you in your city.

Are there other ways to meet the R&A Team and receive consultation? What are the advantages of a face-to-face meeting on site compared to an online meeting?  
In the last two years, many meetings were not possible in presence and online meetings have become a matter of course for many. This is why we will of course continue to offer online consultation as this is an easy way to receive information about the program and feedback on your individual profile. However, as our part-time programs require students to be on campus every second weekend, it is also very important to get an impression of our excellent infrastructure and the campus “look and feel” as early as possible. In the end, one needs to feel welcomed and comfortable at the place where they will spend a lot of time over the next two years. But in the end, each consultation is what you make of it, and we are prepared to go many ways.

Should you be interested in meeting our R&A Team colleagues, get in touch with them via recruiting@gbs.uni-frankfurt.de or fill out this contact form.

Don’t forget: The MBA application deadline for the intake in October 2022 is Wednesday, August 31, 2022.

Jointly organized by GBS and the House of Pharma & Healthcare, this year’s Summer Summit was dedicated to the topic “Digital Transformation in Health” and again proved to be an ideal occasion to network and discuss cutting-edge topics with leading representatives from diverse practices. Overall, the summit expert contributions showed that the digitization of healthcare in Germany remains rather sluggish, but is making increasingly rapid progress in the pharmaceutical and medical technology sectors – and thus ideally paying into the further development of our new GBS certificate program "Data Science in Health".
Following the compelling words of welcome from Goethe University’s newly appointed CIO, Ulrich Schielein, Dr. Sven Mensing from Abbvie Deutschland and Elena Bonfiglioli from Microsoft Corporation gave insights into their companies' activities in the field of digitalization in two impressive keynote lectures.
Moderated by Dr. Carolin Bender, alumna of the Digital Transformation MBA, and Dr. Marko Vesic, student of the Pharma MBA program, the CTO of Siemens Healthineers, Dr. Peter Schardt, and Prof. Dr. Jochen Maas (General Manager R&D Sanofi-Aventis Germany), demonstrated with numerous examples the general importance of digitization for their companies in a panel discussion closing the formal part of the event.
Read more on the event in the latest issue of PZ - Pharmazeutische Zeitung written by Joachim Pietzsch here.