-: If a student was interested in this career,
I would suggest going into communications,
or a business or marketing major.
I think those three come to mind at first, for sure.
When I'm looking at a resume, some things that
really impress me are the uniqueness of the resume.
It doesn't always have to be black and white,
and Times New Roman, size 12.
So bring your personality a little bit.
And then secondly, go above and beyond.
Everybody can go to school, get good grades,
and attend class, but what are you doing
outside of that to better yourself?
And there's so many opportunities to do that,
so do something that you're awesome at,
and something that aligns with your personality, to really
bring something else to the table, other than your degree.
So, as we all know, applying for jobs in the real world
can be tough, we'll get told no a lot.
But something that I did that I think separated myself,
that could be easily done for anyone else,
was I looked at who worked at the company,
and if I had anything in common with them.
So I found someone at the Individual Contributor level
who was a Ball State alumni, I reached out to her
via LinkedIn, and she was a few years older than me,
so we did not know each other on campus.
And right away, I think because we had that commonality
of going to the same school, she invited me to job shadow
with her, come in, take a tour of the office,
and she introduced me to other people as well,
which was incredibly valuable, so use your connections,
you probably have more than you think.