 The Extended Master is an extra period of time that you can add to your Master program and in that half a year you'll get extra trainings and do an extra internship in order to develop some professional skills. The Extended Master's program serves two purposes. First of all, it gives companies a much better access to our talented students and secondly, our students are prepared for the job market in an excellent way. We do that by building in a traineeship, which lasts six months. During the traineeship our students work on advanced assignments for companies. They get additional professional skills courses, they get coaching, they go on company visits and so on. The trainings involve several skills which you'll need after graduating from your Master's degree. There's a broad variety of trainings, for example we've had Excel trainings, Google Analytics trainings, but also mindfulness and leadership skills. The Extended Master's program is offered to students of all Master's programs of Tilburg School of Economics and Management. That implies that there is a huge variety of potential topics and in the past we've witnessed for example students working on an improvement of a business model, improving online marketing tools, investment strategy, advice and so on. I've applied for the Extended Master's program because I started with several hundreds of students with the same Master's program and I needed to find a way to stand out from those other students. It's also very good for their career because students learn how to solve complicated assignments, they increase their network, they gain a very prestigious certificate which will look very good on their resume. It's also very good for the personal development because students will find out what their work preferences are, what kind of jobs they would like, what kind of organizations they would like and those are just a few of the advantages that the program offers. Companies participate in our program because they benefit from the assignments and from the sophisticated knowledge and skills that our students bring with them. In addition it's very good for employer branding and the program also offers first-rate early access to our students in the war on talent. The personality that stands out for Extended Master's students is that they're all very motivated in doing something extra and that's really necessary when you want to join the program as well. The traineeship starts in April. Students then start working for four days a week on a particular assignment for our company. The fifth day, which is generally the Friday, students return for additional training and coaching all the other elements of the Extended Master's. The program is then finished in October. Then there's the option for students to even extend that further by also connecting the Master's thesis to the assignment that they've been working on. The Extended Master really helped me for the future because after my internship I got a job offer at the company I worked for and that really shows how powerful the program itself is in connections for the future. We're looking for bright minds that get the job done so students have to have good intellectual capabilities but they need to have professional potential as well. Students who are interested in our program can find all the information on our website.