The great thing about facility management is that it is a very broad field of work. After you graduate you have a great deal of options considering what type of organisation you want to work and in what field of facility management you want to apply yourself.

Las Vegas, the city that never sleeps!
Studying abroad was a great experience. I attended the University of Northern Arizona and specialised in hospitality management. Following I managed to get an internship with one of the worlds largest providers of branded casino entertainment, Harrah’s Entertainment. I was with the ‘Rio all Suite Hotel and Casino’, located on the strip in Las Vegas for 5 months and was able to work on the first World Series of Poker tournament hosted by the Rio. This was definitely one of the best experiences ever!

Corus Staal BV
After writing my graduation thesis for Corus Staal BV they offered me a position and I moved to Amsterdam. Currently I work as an accountmanager which is my third position within this company. Corus is a large steel production company formally known as ‘Koninklijke Hoogovens’ and is currently under Indian leadership. In my job I am responsible for the development, realisation, implementation and performance of several facilities services that we provide for our internal customer. Since I am working for such a large company I still have great growth opportunities and therefore the ability to continue my learning curve both national and international.

Furthermore I am currently on the board of IFMA Young, focussed on young professionals within the International FM environment and F-MEX, a foundation focussed on taking FM to a higher level within the Netherlands. Sharing knowledge is a great thing and therefore I am very happy to be supervising a graduation project executed by a very talented student from the Hanze University IFM program at the moment and I hope that many will follow in her footsteps.