Bartłomiej Maroń

1. What influenced your decision to pursue an MBA at PJAIT?

First of all, I worked in IT and wanted to develop in this direction from a management perspective, acquiring more competencies. When starting the MBA for the IT industry at PJAIT, I started from the position of a Team Leader and wanted to be promoted to management positions in the future. On the other hand, the second motivation was the fact that PJAIT is an academy with an IT profile, so these would not just be general business studies, but rather profiled in the IT area.

2. How do you recall your time spent on the MBA for IT at PJAIT? What was most important to you during the studies themselves?

Some of the classes in the MBA program at PJAIT were particularly valuable to me. Thanks to the classes with Katarzyna Olszyńska, during which we discussed soft skills, I understood how huge a role communication nuances play, which we don't think about long enough in our daily work with the team – it's easy to demand, but creating a really good, relaxed atmosphere full of a working culture relies on constant work in this direction – this really helped me a lot.

3. Which areas of the curriculum covered during the MBA studies were most important to you and proved most useful in your professional life?

As I mentioned before, certainly Business Psychology – classes with Katarzyna Olszyńska, the knowledge I gained in these lectures I implemented directly into my actions. I think it is also worth mentioning here: Gamification with Paweł Tkaczyk, or Public Speaking with Krzysztof Górlicki. I will also add Cybersecurity, where the instructor, Kamil Wiśniewski, engaged the group in action in a very interesting way. Meetings with these Lecturers were truly valuable and provided a huge injection of knowledge. These are very interesting, magnetic people who inspire with their commitment.

4. What values, apart from the curriculum itself, were most important to you during the MBA studies?

I think that the huge strength of the MBA for the IT industry at PJAIT are meetings with charismatic people who inspire action, deepening knowledge, and using it at work.

5. What advice could you give to potential candidates for MBA studies?

I would tell them not to wait too long with their decision! I was told to gain more experience in a management position before going for an MBA, because only then would this form of the educational process be profitable for me. I believe that if someone has leader potential, holds a leadership position, or manages their own business, the earlier the better, as habits in professional actions are not yet so set in their ways.