Tell
us, why you decided to go into your chosen field of study, and how
your education reinforced your desire
to be a Supply Chain Management Major. How do these factors translate
into benefits for us should we desire to hire you?
Growing
up as a kid I always prevailed in math. I enjoy using numbers and
coming up with different equations to solve situations. Every new
equation brought to my attention by my teachers was always a
challenge. The butterflies I get in my stomach when I’m working a
problem and I finally get the solution before any of my other
classmates thrilled me. Once I got to high school, I just knew I was
going to be a mathematics major in college, so I chose Finance as my
goal major my freshmen year in high school. I joined a club, Future
Manager Leaders of America the same year. My advisor, Mr. Connor,
asked me did I want to compete in any categories that the club
offered. I told him sure is there anything I can do involving math,
and he said yes try accounting. I studied all year to prepare for the
competition in March. All my studying paid off, I got first place at
the district competition, and made it to state. However, I did not
place in the state competition, but I realized that I really liked
accounting. I took the dual enrollment Accounting class for college my junior year in high school and completed the course with an A.
Upon graduating, I chose Accounting as my major in the Business
College at Auburn.
My
first year at Auburn, I took Managerial Accounting and I loved it, I
just knew this is what I was going to do and I was not changing my
major. My accounting advisor, Dr. Stevens the best! She made me
so interested in my major, I looked forward to taking all the
different levels of accounting, until I took intermediate accounting.
We had a project called System Understanding Aid that gave you a real
world experience as an accountant. This is when I realize being an
accountant was not what I really wanted to do. Thus, I had to
reevaluate my skills, and the things I was good at to figure out what
major I wanted to change to. In high school I was always good at
managing/being a leader. I was the captain of my basketball team from
6th
grade until 9th
grade. My junior year in high school, I was the leader of my Business
Financial Plan in FBLA, and I became President my senior year. I was
the basketball manager for our boys basketball team my junior and
senior year. So, I was really good at being a leader and managing a
team. Dr. Stevens advised me to look into the Supply Chain Management
major and I did. I decided this is what I was destined to do.
I
got a job at a book store called School Book Rentals, Inc. in Alabama right by Auburn. My uncle is the store manager so she hired me
right off the back. She allowed me to apply my management skills to
my job for her. I had to keep up with all the student records who
rented books from us. Before each semester or quarter began, I had to
do inventory on each book, order more books and different books
needed for classes for that semester/quarter, and call people that
still had not turned their books in from the previous
quarter/semester. Some days, I had to open up the store and run the
store for that day by myself, dealing with 20-50 students a day. It
gave me a lot of experience and I appreciated her helping me with
that.
I
have grown to love being a supply chain major, and I know this is the
career field I want to be in. Having the opportunity to actually run
and manage a business for 2 different colleges is a very tactful job,
but I appreciated every minute of it. It helped me better myself as a
person and as a candidate for a job other than one with family. The
combination of my skills and personality would make a great assets to
the company, and I look forward to learning and creating new things
with the company.
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