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Name: Gina Munoz
Age: 24
Company Name: New York Focus
Years With Company: 2
Previous Jobs: Nothing else after college, just summer jobs...video store, law office, the usual
Education: BA, Williams College, 1994
1. What is your official job title?
Assistant to the Vice President
2. What is the job title you'd give yourself?
President
3. What makes your job unique?
4. How did your college major / graduate school degree help prepare you for your career path?
Actually, I plan to go to law school, so it helped me as well as it could have. For this job, it gave me the power to know enough about so many things that I can have an interesting conversation with anyone I meet.
5. What necessary career information was missing from your studies? How did you pick up those skills and knowledge?
I was missing the actual legal terms. For instance, in all the mock juries I've done, there are some legal terms that blow by me. I never took an actual "law" course at Williams. However, I was able to pick it up by just listening and reading the Wall Street Journal on occasion, and of course, just watching the lawyers do what they are talking about.
6. What difficulties did you encounter entering your chosen field?
Initially I wanted media and everyone wanted somebody who knew "someone." In this field, going to Williams did it for me.
7. Why would you recommend your company or job?
It's small, and is a good place to get a taste of so many things. It can really help you narrow your choices, and it is fun. However, you don't want to make a career out of my job at this company. I would suggest using it to move on to a bigger place, something else.
8. How does the size of your company impact your sense of job satisfaction?
For short term, it's great. Long term, it stinks.
9. What three things are most rewarding about the work you do?
- the amount of things that I have been able to see from every field
- the people I have met
- the contacts I've made, Mr. RJR
10. What three things are most frustrating?
- The president won't leave and allow me to take her place.
- The pay doesn't seem to be quite balanced with the amount of work I do now.
- There is a lot of part time help that is just interested in their acting and modeling careers and not in the work they do hear.
11. What three things are most fun?
- the people
- the staff
- the work topics
12. How do you handle work stress?
A massage once every two weeks, and I never take work home with me.
13. How big a role does technology play in your career?
It is important. Although the president hates it, everyone we deal with relies on it (i.e. Microsoft) so we use it a lot.
14. How do you distinguish yourself from your co-workers?
I am looking to move on very soon. I am not a model or actor, or wanna be.
15. Which popular song best describes your working life?
"I'm Just a Girl"
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