-: Yeah so when thinking about how to prepare
to land your dream job
when it comes to kind of the marketing social media
event planning side of things
academically when you're in school
definitely make use of all of your professors,
they're your greater resource
particularly being at Rollins being in a small college
were we have really intimate small classes.
My first internship I got was working with a professor
that was here at Rollins
which then led to a part time job
working in an office doing event planning
that that professor was a part of.
So without creating that network
and making sure that all of my professors knew me
as the person that always goes above and beyond
I would never have ended up where I am now.
In addition to internships and jobs
while you're in school
you should also have a side hustle.
So I think everyone should have a side hustle
almost at all times
and that doesn't mean that you're working yourself crazy
and that you're working you know 50 hours a week
at your regular job
and then falling asleep doing the other thing
and feeling totally burnt out,
but it means finding something that your passionate about
and doing that on the side of whatever you do.
So at some point I was in a job
that was less fulfilling,
less mission driven,
and what did I do?
I was thinking ahead, how do I get my dream job,
what do I think that dream job would look like
and what am I excited about
and then I started on the side a blog
a local blog here in Orlando
that was focusing on great local businesses,
cool stuff that was going on in the community,
how to find out about cool stuff.
I found a niche that at the time wasn't really being met
now it is now there are great news organizations
that are doing that locally
but at the time there weren't
so I created my own blog
and I really think everyone needs to
have something like that, create something like that
that then you can show professionally in the future.
Through that blog
I ended up creating a hashtag that went viral in Orlando
and because that hashtag has you know
almost 200,000 uses on Instagram
when I was applying for the job with Yelp I could say
not only do I have this event planning experience
which I had well documented through work and internships
but now I also had the digital marketing side of things.