>> Batch 8050: I actually started at Temple as freshman and I was in the school of business,
I mean, sorry communications and I was a PR major.
I wanted to be a PR specialist and went through that and then I was like I really want,
I was one of those people I want to be an event planner, PR, event, same thing
and then I realized through some research that we had a Tours and Hospitality Program and I was
like what is this, so scheduled some time with one of the academic advisors
to learn a little bit more like what jobs do you get with this degree.
Yeah, so then I transferred from PR over to SCHM and I loved it.
It's such a family, it's a small school it's probably one of the smallest
at Temple but it's growing really fast.
The partnership they have with the business school affords us a lot of opportunities
that I think some of the other schools just don't have cause the Fox School
of Business is amazing, obviously one of the top in the country and we partner with them on a lot
of things which opens up doors for us.
Then I graduated, I was nervous, I was one of those students that did not have a job,
no one would hire me and I couldn't figure out why, and then I reached out to our director
of business development and his sole job was to find us jobs, like how cool is that?
To have somebody who would make sure that everybody that comes to the school gets a job.
So, I reached out to him and two days prior
to a group Hyatt interview, he's like I'll get an interview.
I'm like okay great.
So you know, I get my suit or what not, I got from Target and I get there and I get
through the group interview and then I end up doing a phone interview with a Hyatt in Chicago
and then they hired me and I had to go Savannah.
>> Georgia.
>> Savannah, Georgia; from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
I'm like, oh no!
And I was like you don't have anything in like California,
Chicago, and they're like no, Savannah.
So, it's with a corporate management training program and what was great about their program,
like most programs, like even our program is
that when you're done you get a management position.
After I did that, I got the opportunity to actually leave Savannah
which I was really excited about and I got to go to D.C., so I went and worked
for the Hyatt Regency on Capitol Hill in D.C. as an assistant front office manager
and then the director of sales came to me one day and was like,
would you be interested in sales?
And at the time I was so burnt out, I was like absolutely
and I had no idea what sales really did or anything like that and they took their time
and they trained with me and I went up as entry level sales manager and then did that for
about a year and then a director of sales left it came to [inaudible]
and about four months later I followed her.
So, I've been with [inaudible] since 2008 and would not work for any other wholesale company.