>> So I'm a graduate of Temple University here in Philadelphia.
I came in to school as a business management major undecided.
On my first day they said, "Hey, if you're business management, that's not a real major.
So you need to pick a real one."
So I thought I had something selected coming into undergrad; I found out I had nothing.
So I spent my first two years just kind of floating
around the business school and taking a bunch of classes.
So accounting and finance, marketing, supply chain management,
all these things and hated most of them.
Couldn't find anything.
Then finally I took this course in human resource management.
And the concept was organizations have all these products that they ship and they sell
to consumers, but their most valuable asset is their people.
So in HR it's your job to refine that asset of your people.
And I just found that really intriguing.
Then I got involved with a student professional organization here
on campus called the Society for Human Resource Management.
And I got to meet a ton of professionals inside of the field of HR.
And that really helped to grow me to say this is something I want to do longer term.
So I declared that as my major, got a few internships inside the field,
and then ended up getting my full-time job right out of school.