????MBA學生的親身經歷證明，一次性改變三件人生大事簡直難于上青天，但在羅特曼管理學院的畢業生中，還是涌現出了一些成功的三級跳健將，比如以下這三位：

????帕薩?德夫

????跳國家：從印度跳至加拿大

????跳行業：從半導體跳至醫療保健

????跳職能：從產品營銷跳至內部戰略規劃

????33歲的帕薩?德夫在牢騷滿腹的勞動力大軍中堪稱一個異數。他說：“我正在做我喜歡、而且也擅長的工作，這種情形非常罕見。”但這一切來之不易。這位曾經做過產品營銷工程師的印度人透露說，移居加拿大，然后從半導體業飛躍至醫療保健業，是他做過的難度最大的事情。

????于德夫而言，一個最大的挑戰就是如何說服加拿大雇主冒險試用一下像他這樣一個既缺乏加拿大工作經驗，也沒有從事過醫療行業的外國人。他說：“我個人的看法是，現在的面試其實不是在挑選候選人，而是想法子拒絕候選人。因為他們真的想找到最佳人選，所以總是在尋找一個可以把你拒之門外的理由。”申請工作幾乎花了德夫一年的時間。

????找工作期間，他填寫了70份羅特曼管理學院提供的求職申請表，超過100份外部求職申請，還經受了40次往往令人如坐針氈的面試過程。德夫估計，他是他們班最晚找到工作的15名學生之一—— 2013年6月獲得MBA學位后，歷經數月磨難，他才找到了一份稱心的工作。

????德夫目前在貝克列斯特醫院和健康服務公司(Baycrest Hospital and Health Services)擔任內部顧問。他說，這份工作應歸功于攻讀MBA期間在愛克發醫療信息技術公司(Agfa)的實習經歷。“每次面試時，這段經歷絕對是一個巨大的加分項，因為每個人都知道愛克發公司。要是我沒有做過這份實習工作，我絕對不可能完成這種轉變；這段經歷表明我對醫療行業抱有激情，許多面試問題都集中在我在愛克發公司從事過的項目上面。”

????商學院畢業后，負債讀完MBA學位的德夫面臨立刻找到工作的巨大壓力，但他沒有放棄投身醫療行業的愿望，他改變職業生涯的決心由此可見一斑。他說，對于國際學生來說，這種壓力往往尤為劇烈。還算幸運的是，來羅特曼管理學院讀MBA之前，德夫攢了一筆學費，從而能夠避開印度高得離譜的貸款利率（14%到15%之間）。但即便如此，他畢業時依然背負著加拿大皇家銀行( Royal Bank of Canada)提供的約47,000加元貸款。德夫看到不少同學為償還債務將就著找了一份差事。他說：“許多同學上商學院就是為了獲得夢想的工作，但整個事情隨后向截然相反方向發展。為了獲得一份好工作，他們不得不負債接受教育。隨后，為了償還貸款，他們就隨便找了一份工作。”

????盡管德夫說他不想重溫三級跳的艱辛經歷，但他很高興自己終于做到了。“獲得或接近你真正想要的工作，正是10萬加元MBA學費的價值所在。否則的話，為什么我要掏這么大一筆錢去做上商學院前自己就已經在做的事情？”???

????Students' experiences attest to the extreme difficulty of making major life changes on three planes at once. Here are the stories of a few successful Rotman triple jumpers:

????Partha Dev

????Country jump: India to Canada

????Industry jump: Semiconductors to healthcare

????Function jump: Product marketing to internal strategy

????Partha Dev is an exception in a workforce plagued by discontent. "I'm doing what I love and what I'm good at, which is very rare," says the 33-year-old. But it wasn't easy. The former product marketing engineer and native of India says moving to Canada and making the leap from semiconductors to healthcare was the hardest thing he's ever done.

????For Dev, the single biggest challenge was convincing Canadian employers to take a chance on someone with limited experience in the country and in the healthcare industry. "My personal opinion is now the interviews are not about selecting a candidate. It's about rejecting a candidate, because they really want to find the best, and they are always looking for a reason to reject you," he says. Dev spent roughly a year applying for jobs.

????During his search, he filled out some 70 job applications through Rotman, more than 100 external applications, and endured 40 often-grueling interviews. He estimates he was among the last 15 students in his graduating class to land a job, which he found several months after earning his MBA degree in June 2013.

????Dev credits his MBA internship with healthcare IT firm Agfa for his current job as an internal consultant for Baycrest Hospital and Health Services. "When I went for the interviews, it was definitely a huge plus point because everyone knew of Agfa.... If I hadn't done the internship, it would have been impossible to have made the switch; it showed my passion for the industry, and a lot of the interview questions focused on the projects I worked on for Agfa."

????It's a testament to Dev's determination that he didn't give up under the intense financial pressures on MBAs to secure jobs immediately after graduation -- that pressure is often more intense for international students, he says. Fortunately, Dev was able to sidestep India's exorbitant interest rates, which range from 14% to 15%, by saving for his MBA before coming to Rotman. However, he still graduated with about C$47,000 in loans from the Royal Bank of Canada. Dev watched some of his peers settle for jobs to pay the bills. "A lot of students come for the dream job, but then it becomes the reverse. They have to take a loan to get an education to get a great job, and then they take whatever they can to repay the loan," he says.

????Although Dev says he wouldn't want to relive the triple jump, he's very glad he did it. "Getting what you really want or being close to what you really wanted is what makes a $100,000 MBA worth it. Otherwise, why pay all the money to do the same thing which I was doing before the MBA?"???