Rebooted: The Future of Work & You

Priiya Rao
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You did the research. You read everything. And you still don't know if Germany is the right move. That's because the people who actually know — the ones running universities, hiring graduates, shaping careers — have never been asked the real questions. Until now. Rebooted is a podcast for international students, education counsellors, and professionals building their future in Germany. Every episode, host Priiya Rao sits down with university leaders and industry insiders for the honest conversation that should have existed before you made your decision. No marketing speak. No rehearsed answers. Just the truth about studying, working, and building a life in Germany — from the people who live it every day. Because you deserve real information before you take the leap.

Episodes

  1. Sep 27

    You Got Into a German University. Nobody Tells You What Comes Next

    "Don't look for a job immediately." That's the advice most students heading to Germany never hear. You picked Germany. You got the offer. But what happens after you land? What actually gets you the job? And will you be able to stay once your studies are over? On the first episode of Rebooted: The Future of Work & You, I sit down with two people from EU Business School who cover both ends of the journey. Nick Cowles is Head of Sales and Recruitment and has spent 17 years helping students move to Europe. Leonardo Agapito studied at EU Business School and now works there as Regional Business Manager. He has lived in Milan, Melbourne, India and Munich. No brochure talk. Just what nobody tells you: the emotional low of your first winter, why the city you pick shapes your career, why German directness isn't rudeness, and why employers here care more about what you bring to the table than about the university on your CV. ⏱ Chapters 0:00 Cold open 1:00 Welcome to Rebooted 4:04 Nick on 17 years in international recruitment 6:15 How recruitment differs across India, Asia and Europe 8:11 Leo: why Munich, why EU Business School 11:07 Milan to Melbourne to India to Munich 14:20 What recruiters never put in the brochure 18:50 How Indian students have changed in 17 years 22:07 What living in India taught Leo 26:10 The first culture shock nobody warns you about 28:38 How EU Business School has evolved 31:48 The ecosystem that brings alumni back 33:49 Getting ready for work in Europe 39:00 Visa myths 41:19 One thing nobody tells you before moving to Germany 44:42 My own move to Germany 45:40 If you could reboot one thing… 48:25 Sign-off If you or someone you know is planning a move to Germany, send them this episode. Subscribe for more honest conversations on studying, working and building a life abroad, and drop your biggest question about moving to Germany in the comments. Follow Rebooted so you never miss an episode, and share this one with someone planning their move to Germany. Got a question for our next guest? Drop it in the comments below. #Rebooted #TheFutureOfWork #StudyInGermany #StudyAbroad #IndianStudentsAbroad #InternationalStudents #EUBusinessSchool #Munich #CareersInGermany #Workpunkt

  2. May 16

    "We Are Not Here in Kindergarten." — A German University Chancellor on What Students Get Wrong

    What do international students actually need to know before they enrol in a German university? I asked the Chancellor — and he told me everything. In Episode 1 of Rebooted, I sit down with Prof. Dr. Peter Konhäusner, Chancellor of Whitecliff Berlin International University of Applied Sciences, for an unfiltered conversation about the realities of studying and building a career in Germany. No PR polish. No rehearsed answers. Just the conversation that should have existed before you signed anything. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ WHAT WE COVER IN THIS EPISODE ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Topics covered: • AI and the future of work — what's actually changing for graduates right now • Private vs. public universities in Germany — the real distinction • What Berlin's startup and entrepreneurship scene demands of international talent • Networking in Germany — how it actually works, and what most students get wrong • Language requirements — how much German do you really need? • Why influencer advice about studying abroad is dangerous • What universities like Whitecliff are doing differently for international students • Expectation management — the gap between what students expect and what Germany delivers ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ABOUT REBOOTED ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Rebooted is the show that says what the brochure won't. University chancellors, industry leaders, and education insiders — on camera, answering the questions international students actually need answered. Hosted by Priiya Rao — Berlin-based founder with 25+ years in education and business development. New episodes drop regularly. Subscribe so you don't miss them. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ LISTEN & FOLLOW US ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 💼 LinkedIn Newsletter → https://shorturl.at/2M5eT 📸 Instagram → https://shorturl.at/AHzSZ ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ABOUT THE GUEST ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Prof. Dr. Peter Konhäusner is the Chancellor of Whitecliff University of Applied Sciences, part of the White Cliff Global Network. His work focuses on international education, academic leadership, and preparing students for the evolving demands of the global workforce. #StudyInGermany #InternationalStudents #GermanyPodcast #FutureOfWork #BerlinUniversity #HigherEducation #Rebooted #GermanyCareer #StudyAbroad #PodcastLaunch

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You did the research. You read everything. And you still don't know if Germany is the right move. That's because the people who actually know — the ones running universities, hiring graduates, shaping careers — have never been asked the real questions. Until now. Rebooted is a podcast for international students, education counsellors, and professionals building their future in Germany. Every episode, host Priiya Rao sits down with university leaders and industry insiders for the honest conversation that should have existed before you made your decision. No marketing speak. No rehearsed answers. Just the truth about studying, working, and building a life in Germany — from the people who live it every day. Because you deserve real information before you take the leap.

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