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How to pronounce basically in Dutch?

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okay welcome to this information session
on the bachelors program in business
administration at the University of
Amsterdam my name is Frank belcheck
I'm professor at the Amsterdam Business
School and I'm the director of the
bachelors program in Business
Administration just let me say right at
the beginning if you should have any
kind of questions that are not answered
in this presentation please feel free to
use the chat my colleagues and also
myself after this presentation we'll be
there in the chat for you and try and
answer your questions so what will I
talk about today I would like to share
with you the what the why and the how
so what is Business Administration and
this program about why should you choose
for our program and how do you proceed
if you will find this program
interesting so what is Business
Administration for the Dutch people who
watch this video Business Administration
is the same as the drives good endure
for the international students we didn't
make this distinction between Business
Administration and International
Business Administration as in our
perception Business Administration
nowadays can't be done differently than
internationally so I think that by
definition Business Administration's
gotta be international because of the
global economy so what is this program
about at our university and the first
year you would start out with the four
pillars because Business Administration
is a multidisciplinary study while you
have Mon Disciplinary studies like for
instance mathematics you study
mathematics forget mathematics one
discipline you start a business made
ministration you start out with a
business problem that you would like to
solve and for solving a problem use
whatever discipline is useful so there
are several disciplines that are part of
Business Administration this is why it's
multidisciplinary and this is we have
why we have four pillars and those four
pillars that you will meet in the first
year are the organization which is
basically
the core of Business Administration the
economy which is the context in which
the organization is positioned the
people which are the main asset of
organizations people make the
organization and the methods because
Business Administration is actually
evidence-based which means that all the
theories and Mars they're gonna tell you
are proven in the field that they work
and you need to understand how that
works and it's an academic study so
there are all four methods needed so in
the first year you will see economics
principles of economics that's the
economy component you have strategy and
organization then you have the people
side organizational behavior and you
have business research methods and
quantitative data analysis which is
methods next to that you can also see
the different projects projects are
slightly different
while our general lectures are always a
combination of a general lecture and a
more small-scale tutorial in which you
will discuss what you have heard in the
lectures you will get to know
applications and cases but the projects
are different in the sense that this is
group work so you together with your
fellow students and group of
approximately 5 people will be together
and you'll be actively doing something
so it's more Skills oriented you could
say and these projects will be your best
friend during the first two years every
half year get another project on a new
topic you start out with academic
reading and writing skills and you end
up in the second year worth setting up
your own business so after the first
year and the four pillars you will need
to apply them to Business Administration
topics so what you will meet then in
terms of topics is basically the
business function or you could say the
different departments in a company so a
marketing department of finance
department an accounting department
innovation information and data
management and so on and it starts to
become more and more complex the program
so in the beginning in marketing for
instance you build on the methods
economics psychology so the people side
you bring that together to answer
marketing questions and later on the
second semester you will see topics like
innovation or Internet
which basically refer to all of the
different functions so international
business has finance aspects marketing
aspects accounting aspect so it gets
more and more complex and that means
that after those first two years you
have a pretty broad and comprehensive
knowledge of Business Administration
which is good because that offers us the
opportunity to basically give you the
third year free to fill it in as you see
fit so tailor your own program I think
that this is one of the big strengths of
the bachelor's in business
administration at the University of
Amsterdam so in the first semester you
have the option to choose between three
different choices first one that would
be internationalization so you can go
abroad so the UVA the University of
Amsterdam is a big university which has
partner universities in more than 100
countries in the world so if you would
like to go abroad with our exchange
program you can choose from more than
100 different partner universities all
over the world second option if you
decide that maybe internationalization
is not your thing but rather your
broadly interested let's say philosophy
was always your big dream but you
decided to go for Business
Administration well now is your chance
broadening basically means that you can
choose for minor program which is mini
bachelor's program you could say of only
half a year in which you just bro to
your academic scope look a little bit
further than just Business
Administration and again the size of the
University of Amsterdam is a big
strength here we have more than 60 minor
programs in English language and more
than 100 in Dutch language which you can
choose from so starting from art history
over I don't know data science physics
philosophy sociology you name it we got
it
so it really broadening of scope is your
big dream here's the space for it and
last not least well
maybe you might
the idea that it's got to collect
already some practical experience during
your study because yeah quite often you
get to hear okay you'll just graduate it
but you know this was at academia and we
need people with practical experience so
first do an internship well of course
you can integrate your internship
already in your study and get credits
for it and the right place for that
will be the first semester of year
number three so do an internship and
complement it neatly with our business
lab electives which are more skills
oriented more practice oriented
electives that you can run next to doing
your internship which would be something
like consulting methods or business
analytics or cross-cultural
intercultural skills second semester of
year three here you have the opportunity
to specialize quite often in the third
year you get some freedom in the program
in your business administration programs
at other universities so you can pick
between different electives or we go a
step further we take that to a different
level so you can pick the whole second
semester which basically means four
different courses and your bachelor's
thesis you all have to do in the area of
your specialization and those areas of
specialization are management in the
digital age accounting finance and
entrepreneurship innovation and
creativity and now I get back to the
very beginning so the question is what
is Business Administration well I'd like
to illustrate that by using a small case
so a case basically means just a company
that probably all of you know let's just
pick one like let's say Google so Google
you know it's a pretty big multinational
company which has different components
like Google Drive Google Maps Google
Chrome the web browser the Android
system operation system so let's take a
look at what the four different
specializations cover and so business at
Malaysian does cover by using Google as
an example
so from a management perspective
management basically covers the
management perspective covers topics
like strategy marketing management HRM
so typical questions will be like a
let's say marketing strategy perspective
how can Google increase the market share
of its web browser so you know Google
Chrome how to outperform let's say
Internet Explorer well one thing would
be to make use of synergies like you
have the Android system why not pre
install Google Chrome in the same way
like Internet Explorer is pre-installed
for all Windows systems so that would be
a simple way to do that of course
reality is more complex so you have to
be careful of antitrust laws to protect
consumers so but that would be one way
another thing would be Google obviously
is a knowledge intensive company so
human capital the people are very
important so how do you find the best
people and get them to work there and
retain them and keep them motivated and
satisfied so that will be also a
question from the management perspective
finance finance is about getting money
in and spending money so financing and
investing so talking about finance why
is Google a stock company so different
ways how to get money how to get funding
and one way is for instance to go to the
stock market that comes with
disadvantage so maybe you have followed
the press a couple of months ago when
Elon Musk was there talking about
stepping away from the stock market
because Tesla was under too much
pressure there so different options
finance will help you to make a well
informed choice where to get your
funding and another aspect that I have
not yet mention is for instance it's
better to buy stock from just one
company or from several ones or what I'm
referring to here is risk minimization
or risk optimization because quite often
it's a little bit of a trade-off
it's either profit maximization but
profit often comes with high risk so
what to choose the risk management is
also important topic in finance
accounting well accounting is about
bookkeeping and budgeting if you want to
keep it simple of course it's more
complex but those are probably relevant
keywords here so for instance what is
the value of an internet search engine
internet search is something which is
very intangible so it's just a program
so what is it value well you need to
know that because as a company you need
to publish certain kind of information
so you have a profit and loss account
you have a balance and this is to be
published on a yearly basis so how to
put it in there what to put in there how
to do that correctly this is part of
financial accounting another relevant
question would be can we offer for
instance our web browser Google Chrome
for free so what are the profits and
what's the income that is linked or can
be linked to the web browser well you
know that if you knew where if you knew
use it you will probably leave a history
that Google might use and then send you
more or better targeted advertisement so
they can approach companies and say well
we know some people who might be
interested in whatever baby clothing
because you have been looking somewhere
for baby clothes things you would get
more targeted advertisements and Google
can sell it so it creates income but it
also has costs so you need to really
monitor your costs and your profit and
this is also part of the counting and
then management accounting
entrepreneurship entrepreneurship is
more than just entrepreneurship so
entrepreneurship is also about
innovation and creativity
so entrepreneurship is not only relevant
when you're setting up your own company
but also all other existing companies
are really interested in people with an
entrepreneurial attitude so if you just
for the fun of it
check advertisements job advertisements
you will see that quite often you will
see entrepreneurial attitude as one of
the requirements in the advertisement
text so company
are interested that there are people
like normative who think ahead who take
charge who are proactive who think what
can I contribute to the company we're
not just sitting there waiting for their
boss to tell them what to do but rather
they just starve their own project so
how can you stimulate that what would be
ways how to do it and you can't do it
for instance by creating a creative
environment I don't know whether you
have seen pictures from Google
headquarters on the internet so it is it
screams creativity at a certain moment
Google has also offered quite some time
while work time actually for your pet
project for some side projects that
people could work on something that
people would find really interesting and
relevant and your employer pays for it
so people laugh there and actually a lot
of interesting things like Twitter
Google Maps or Groupon were initially
started as side projects so it
stimulates creativity and innovation and
another question would be if you talk
about new business and this is more the
strategic side so what new business
activities should Google launch and then
you could see that
well maybe you followed the media but a
logical choice would be for instance
something like self-driving cars because
Google does have already some
information or navigation like the
navigation software ways or Google Maps
and they have programming skills
obviously and artificial intelligence
expertise so bring that all together and
use it for creating self-driving cars so
there are big competitors in that market
so that would be all Business
Administration topics that I just
started about that it just explained ok
so you know you know what the studies
about the program is about what
different topics are we going to cover
now let's talk what happens after your
study what realistically in the
Netherlands three out of four people
have graduated as a bachelor's in
business administration continue with
the Masters
so a master's in business administration
and of course people who have finished
their bachelor's in business
administration are unconditionally able
to enter and continue their study in the
Masters of Business and trash which we
also offer in a lot of different flavors
with a lot of different tracks ranging
from leadership and management /
marketing international business to
digital business so we cover a lot the
whole range basically of different
topics of Business Administration or
masters entrepreneurship - so and after
that what could you do what are your
career prospects
oh as somebody who has a specialization
knowledge in entrepreneurship you could
for instance set up your own business
the traditional or any business you can
also be an employee at a start-up
because you are especially aware of the
problems that new companies are facing
but you can also work at an innovation
department in a big company as an
accounting person you can be an
accountant surprise or control our or
financial adviser if you specialize in
finance you can work for a bank
you can become a financial adviser a
business analyst project manager risk
manager and with a management
specialization you're more or less
targeting strategic analysts HR manager
sales manager marketer or also a
consultant and much more so this is the
nice thing basically any kind of company
any kind of organization be it
for-profit or nonprofit private sector
governmental organization they all need
to be professionally managed which means
they're only people with a Business
Administration background and to give
you an idea where our graduates might
end up so this is the top 15 companies
who hired our graduates and to give a
little bit of an idea what this is about
what you can see back here is the big
accounting offices and consultancies so
you have PricewaterhouseCoopers you have
to you Lloyd you have KPMG you have
Ernst and Young you see the big banks
market ING Bank rebel Bank an ABN AMRO
Bank and you can see big multinationals
like shell Phillips Unilever aho
Delhaize and you can also see
non-governmental organizations like the
University of Applied Sciences of
Amsterdam like the tax office and the
city of Amsterdam so also our host the
city of Amsterdam is greedily trying to
get our graduates so why should you
study Business Administration at the
University of Amsterdam well I could
make big stories about it I try to sell
it already to some extent by saying that
we're unique in offering you so much
freedom but I can also just leave the
word for our students so this is what
some students said business
administration at the University of
Amsterdam is the start of a career path
with many opportunities so here you can
find back the many opportunities in the
third year so this is a unique feature
that you are basically more or less
totally free to tailor your own program
in the first semester and the second
semester of the third year another big
opportunity which I probably should also
mention is the city of Amsterdam so
you've seen it already in terms of
employers so the job market here is very
good Amsterdam is basically a truly
international City and the center of
business life in the Netherlands which
obviously comes with lots of
opportunities for internships but also
for jobs afterwards and everybody speaks
English it's a truly international city
another student said with Business
Administration at University of
Amsterdam you get to do projects that
are exciting and real-world relevant
right from the start
well that refers to I've mentioned at
the beginning when I've shown you the
program the project's the group based
skills oriented work that runs through
the whole two first years so they're
really you go out there you get in touch
with companies you do interview
with employees discussed with them
something like topics like job
satisfaction and what they really like
about their about their company so
you're really out there and it ends
really in the second year with setting
up your own business so this is really
exciting and I do understand what brand
means when he refers to this project
that's an exciting part of the program
so I hope that by now you've learned
something about the what and the why and
now for the how what our next steps what
should you do if what you heard so far
is really for your to your liking well
first thing you should do is explore the
website because what you want to avoid
at all costs is did you take a quick
decision and afterwards you regret it
that's high cost for everybody
so please do inform yourself explore our
website explore other universities and
see where you have a good feeling where
you'll feel the click where you'll feel
the fit compare the different programs
and see where the difference is I've
tried to emphasize a little bit where I
feel that we are unique but see for
yourself and compare it yourself and if
you should decide that indeed there is a
good fit between you and the University
of Amsterdam's program in Business
Administration well please do apply the
deadline for applications is January 15
so it's coming in so please inform
yourself and then make a choice between
in wallets stay within the next month
and now you will get to hear some more
specific information about the
application and how it works and what
are the different texts the different
steps that you need to take and tests
you need to do and my colleague Ava from
admissions will explain now how that
works
hello my name is ava and I am the
coordinator of the selection procedure I
was just on the chat as well trying to
answer all your questions but you asked
quite a lot we will keep the chat open
until 3 o'clock so you can ask
everything that you still want to know
the most important things
I will point out first we only accept
750 first-year students for this
bachelor because it's a selective
program that means first of all that the
deadline is pretty soon you have to
apply both in studio ink and in embark
before the 15th of January all
applicants must also complete a
selection procedure which consists first
of all of your providing us with a
complete file so that we can determine
your GPA which counts for 50% and
completing a selection test which also
counts for the other 50% so here you see
a step-by-step overview of all the
things that you need to do in order to
complete the application and selection
procedure basically it's six steps and I
will go through them now with you and
you can also ask your questions on the
chat the first step is pretty basic it
is to check the entry requirements
website to see if you are actually
eligible for admission you can find our
entry requirements in the hamburger menu
on the side and the drop-down menu and
then selecting admission enrolment and
selection there are three requirements
you need to check first your high school
diploma
whether it's equivalent to Dutch video
then your mathematics proficiency and
your English proficiency once you are
sure that you meet or are on track to
meet the entry requirements we encourage
you to apply and you do that by first
going to study link which is the system
for registration to a Dutch University
we use that in the Netherlands for every
kind for every University the deadline
for doing so is the 15th of January like
I said before and after that you will
receive two emails one will contain your
student number which is called your Yuva
net ID and the other one is a link with
an invitation to apply in embark which
is our online application system once
you have received both these emails you
were ready for the next step if you
haven't received them check your spam
folder or else contact us the third step
is to apply
in embark and you have to fill out an
application form there it's an
application system that we use at our
University's Faculty of economics and
business and also for those the deadline
is the 15th of January you have to
complete a form with a few questions you
have to upload required documents and
you have to choose your selection test
date once you've done all of that and
you are living not in the Netherlands
but abroad there will also ask you to
select a supervisor for the test because
you will have to take the test in your
home country under supervision once
you've done all of that and your
application in stealing and embark are
both sent before the 15th of January you
have a complete application then the
fourth step after well the admissions
office will then in the meantime assess
your application and see if you are
eligible for admission but in the
meantime you can start by preparing for
the selection test because in February
you will receive an invitation to join
our online learning environment canvas
where you can practice for the selection
test and the selection test itself will
be two and a half hours long and it will
cover the subjects mathematics strategy
on organisation and economics like I
said you can prepare online before this
week long you can watch some videos with
tutorials from teachers of the first
year courses you'll get some like some
essays to read and also some questions
practice questions and after this you
will need to take the selection test if
you live in the Netherlands you will
take the test on our campus in Amsterdam
on Saturday the 22nd of February or
Saturday the 29th of February if you
live abroad you take your test in your
own country with a supervisor on Monday
the 24th of February or Monday the 2nd
of March all details will be sent to you
by email in February and if you have a
supervisor it will also be sent to the
supervisor so that everybody is informed
then after you have done all these steps
and you've send us your
documents and you have completed the
selection test you will receive a
ranking number the ranking number is
composed of the result of your selection
test and your results from school so
basically it's 50/50 and it ranks you in
comparison to the other students you
will receive this number on the 15th of
April so you have to wait for a little
bit after your selection test and people
with the ranking number between 1 and
750 will get a place into the programme
straightaway people with number 751 and
higher will be placed on a waiting list
so if you receive this this offer to
study so if you are within number 1 to
750
you get a notification from studying and
you must respond to the offer that you
received within 14 days if you decline
or you forget or you do not respond
within 14 days you will lose your
opposite opportunity to start a business
administration program because your
place will go to the next person on the
waiting list new offers are being sent
out between the 15th of April and the
1st of August so as soon as somebody
declines it can go it can go on over the
summer before you here if you get a
place into the program so if you do not
receive an offer to study straight away
you still have a chance to be able to
start that's quite a lot of information
basically what you need to remember are
these numbers there are seven hundred
and fifty places in the program the
deadline is very strict it's the 15th of
January there are six steps you need to
complete there's one mandatory selection
test 15th of April you will get your
ranking number which is composed of 50%
GPA 50% selection test and for 14 days
you can accept your offer to study and
after that your offer will go to the
next person well the jet will stay open
for a while if you have any more
questions about those specific parts of
this application procedure so for
example steadily how do I do that or how
does embark work you can look on our
YouTube channel because there are many
videos that are explaining the exact
things you need to do and you need to
fill out in order to complete your
applications we also have a website with
like all of this information on it with
all diplomas that are accepted for entry
for all the diplomas that need an extra
year of university everything like that
and also from tomorrow on you will find
our webinar on on YouTube if you have
any questions about the admissions
procedure specifically you can always
contact the admissions office via you
Cottonelle / admissions - EB that's it
for now I think wrong do you have any
more well thank you for watching we will
keep the chat open and then if you have
any more new questions keep them coming

okay welcome to this information session

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basically::adverb | Spocien Dictionary

basically

adverb

/'beɪsɪkli/

in essence; at bottom or by one's (or its) very nature

Type	Words
Synonyms	essentially, fundamentally

He is basically dishonest.

How to pronounce basically in Dutch?

basically::adverb | Spocien Dictionary

abandonment

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