-: So I was a student of the
Connecticut State University system,
and when this job became available I was ecstatic.
I originally started off majoring in communications
during my undergrad and worked in broadcasting for 12 years.
I worked for Tribune, Tiberius, Marlon Broadcasting,
and I had been on the radio
and television for many, many years.
Aside from that, I volunteered my time
for a very long time helping people
prepare for their own jobs.
And I realized at one point what it is
that I'm passionate about, which is this,
and went to graduate school
and majored in school guidance counseling.
And that's how I transitioned from communication
into this type of field.
And I feel like this is where
I should have been the whole time.
I love it.
I love the job that I do.
Every day when I'm driving home from work
I feel like I have accomplished something
and I hope that my legacy is to help the students
be the best they can be and find that career
that they are as passionate about as I am about mine.
One of the biggest challenges of my job
is not everybody takes their career search seriously.
Not everybody is as ambitious
to start preparing their resume
and preparing for an interview.
And there are students that we don't see
until their senior year or after they graduate.
The challenging part is that I wish more students
would come to us a lot earlier.