抓住毕业后找到一份全职工作的“宝贵”机会
稳定的十大彩票网站（稳定的十大彩票网站）的一名大四学生利用案件竞争获得了潘多拉公司（Pandora）的职位
Megan Bradshaw， 2019年5月16日
高年级学生多米尼克·霍金斯欣然承认，她“一直有做生意的动力”。 But she wasn’t sure in which direction to proceed.
A part-time job at Nordstrom Rack fed her passion for fashion and introduced her to a love of retail management.
She chose 稳定的十大彩票网站’s 项目管理和业务分析程序—part of the 工商管理专业 in the 工商经济学院—because she thought it was perfect preparation for her future career.
Hawkins also valued the 全球AACSB认证 CBE’s business administration and accounting programs have earned.
Living in West Village for three years gave the Prince George’s County, Maryland, native opportunities to get involved on campus. She participated in the 薄荷程序 and has been a member of the project management and e-business association since she was a sophomore. 今年，她担任了俱乐部的副主席。
Hawkins also took advantage of the opportunity to participate in the 2018秋季案例竞赛. Teams have five weeks to compile solutions to real-world business cases provided by a professional organization and then present their solutions to a panel of regional business leaders.
This year, the participating business was multinational jewelry company Pandora, which has a regional headquarters in downtown Baltimore.
The organization needed a solution for inventory distribution issues it experienced during the holiday season.
“It was really interesting to apply class knowledge to a real-world issue,” Hawkins says. “My friend in my group worked at Nordstrom Rack with me, so we were able to use our business knowledge and retail experience to inform our decision making.”
Although her team finished third, the opportunity to network was just as valuable to Hawkins as a win.
“I had done my research on Pandora, and I knew it was an organization I really wanted to impress,” Hawkins continues.
She connected with Pandora’s demand planning manager Coushatta Cunningham in the meet-and-greet after the presentation and exchanged information. Hawkins applied for several jobs at Pandora before an assistant demand planning position opened in March.
霍金斯说：“我寄去了简历，并复制了库沙塔的简历。 “我马上就收到了回信。 The application and interview process went quickly, and the next week I had a full-time job.”
“ I just love that I can apply what I’ve learned in class to my career. ”
“我没有需求规划经验，”Hawkins笑着说。 “但我确实会Excel。 I’m so happy Towson stresses learning it in the business analysis program and makes you get the Microsoft Office Specialist certification. 这对我帮助很大。”
She is part of a team of four that Hawkins describes as “super friendly” and as “helping me every step of the way.” After several months of learning, she is now starting to expand into point-of-sale merchandise (POSM) demand planning for items like store signage and ring cases.
她说：“我很高兴我能把在课堂上学到的东西应用到我的事业中。”
As if a full-time job and night classes weren’t enough, this semester Hawkins is interning with Natalie M. Scala, associate professor and director of 工业大学供应链管理研究生课程.
The pair, along with a graduate student, is creating a maturity model for large construction organizations to evaluate their level of collaborative scheduling within their projects. The research is funded by an external grant from the Construction Industry Institute (CII).
霍金斯的实习经历与她在潘多拉的工作非常契合。
“We are extending previous research done by CII and completing statistical testing on it, which aligns very well with the statistical testing I’m doing at Pandora,” she notes.
Hawkins’ work with Scala convinced her to enroll in 稳定的十大彩票网站’s accelerated dual degree in supply chain management.
She appreciates the potential it opens to her professionally in the event she decides to move out of demand planning.
“It will be really good to understand how the supply chain works and have that background knowledge to apply at any job in my field,” she says.
但霍金斯并没有任何离开的计划。 When asked where she’ll be in five years, she immediately answers that she wants to grow with Pandora. Even if she decided to move out of demand planning—a situation she calls “unlikely”—she says she’d take advantage of the freedom Pandora provides to move laterally around the company.
现在，霍金斯对毕业典礼很兴奋，也很高兴开始了自己的职业生涯。
“太神奇了，”她说。 “I’ve seen plenty of other people who are not able to find a job right out of college. It pushed me to take as many opportunities as I could to get experience before I graduated. 我很高兴能来到潘多拉。”
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