Today’s guest was Adriana Dawson, the Director of Employer Outreach & Engagement at Roger Williams University. Adriana’s story was one of success and the mistakes along the way that made it possible.
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This post is a follow up to last Friday’s class on January 16, 2015 on ‘job interviewing’. Complementing your job interviewing strategy and skills should be an awareness of what some company leaders look for in their employees. Here are the comments of three corporate leaders on their hiring process. Each corporate leader quoted in […]
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Today’s guest was Nan Quinlan, former Manager of Training and Development at TACO, Inc in Cranston, Rhode Island and presently a consultant on job search strategy and preparations. TACO is one of the largest, most successful and progressive companies in Rhode Island. The topic of today’s class was preparing for a successful job interview.
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Lou Mercado, CVS Health Vice President – Inventory Management. Donna Mumma, CVS Health Senior Director of Pharmacy Inventory Management and Analytics . Ashish Bhandari, CVS Health Analyst, Rx Inventory Management. Jean Rodriguez, 2014 Hope High graduate, Freshman at Rhode Island College and Inventory Management intern at CVS Health. Antoinette Muhammed, 2014 Hope High graduate, Freshman […]
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Randy Martinez is a Director of Diversity Strategy and Management at CVS Health. He came to Hope High School today to speak about tough choices. “Tough choices to protect our brand. Tough choices about who’s in our personal network. Tough choices about how we spend our time. Tough choices about forsaking short term ‘fun’ […]
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Our guest today was Phyllis Smith. Senior Advisor, Client Services Center, CVS/Caremark. The main topic of today’s conversation with our ‘Life Skills’ class and Phyllis was how best to create, use, then protect a great personal brand.
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It began with two people from the same place, albeit different times, meeting for the first time. An engineer and former NFL football player and an outstanding student athlete. One from Gilbane Building Company, the other from Hope High School. Both from Ireland. John Sinnott, the engineer and former football player. Hafzat Akanni, the outstanding […]
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Rodrigo Zetina-Yglesias. He’s presently the Director of Operations for the Benrus company(https://benrus.com) and the former Operations Manager of Alex and Ani. He was also an intern at the Rhode Island Economic Development Corporation and has been a member of several organizations, most notably, the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society. Rodrigo presently serves on the Board of […]
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Two guests graced our ‘Life Skills’ classroom today, Alexandra ‘Lexy’ Marsh, a senior class Vice President at Roger Williams University and Lusiné Ovanesyan, a designer from Akamai Technologies, Inc. a cloud services provider headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Both women spoke about a life perspective shared. Lexy and Lusiné both acknowledged being curious and naturally comfortable […]
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Some memorable moments from the 1st quarter of Hope’s Life Skills program. The first photo is from September’s Business Innovation Factory (BIF) conference at the Trinity Theatre in Providence. Students were able to listen to the fascinating stories of courageous people from all over the world on the Trinity stage. Students were also able to […]
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Carlos Sanchez, Michelle Nguyen and Cassandro Castro. Three successful professionals working at a $129 billion dollar American company, CVS Health, in Woonsocket, Rhode Island, came to Hope High School on Friday, November 7th to share their life stories and aspirations, many of which, were strikingly similar to the some of the students in Hope’s ‘Life Skills’ […]
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Wendy Lewis, a talented copywriter, performing artist and martial artist from CVS Health in Woonsocket, came to our ‘Life Skills’ class today, October 31st, 2014, to share her inspirational story of discovery. Wendy began with her high school experience at the academically rigorous Stuyvesant High School in Manhattan, New York City and ending with her […]
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