Synopsis
This guide specifically targets the Millennial population born between 1980-2000, entering the workplace post-graduation, and focuses on how to avoid some of the pitfalls that can derail a job interview, while offering advice for career success from someone who has conducted hundreds of interviews with students and young adults entering the job market for the first time. Sections of the guide discuss what to expect during early stages of employment, provides information on working with other demographic groups and provides insight on work values and company culture. Further, the guide offers suggestions to create a persona that will help the newly hired standout from the competition while not alienating others and actually build alliances that will insure a good start to a long and successful career.
About the Author
Jennifer Randolph is presently a consultant specializing in diversity management, organizational team building, staff training and development, and strategic partnership development. Ms. Randolph is formally Senior Vice President Organizational Development, Director of Diversity for Saatchi & Saatchi Advertising Agency New York. While serving as Director of Diversity, she developed and implemented programs and strategies that integrated diversity into the agency's business processes, industry profile and relationship-building with diverse organizations. Ms. Randolph's managerial skills and expertise were honed at Court TV (now TruTV) where she functioned as Director for Citizens for Court TV in partnership with the network's legal team, lobbying New York State Legislators for cameras in the courts legislation. Further, she served as Director of Public Affairs, overseeing Court TV's public affairs initiative "Choices and Consequences" and later was Senior Director Public and Government Affairs. Her duties included collaborating with internal and external stakeholders, including cable affiliates, government and elected officials; community leaders, and national organizations. For her outstanding work, Ms. Randolph was promoted to Vice President of Public Affairs and Education making her responsible for developing and directing media relations strategies and strategic partnerships for Court TV's public affairs initiatives. Her duties were later expanded when she became Vice President Organizational Development, overseeing the network's diversity program, recruitment, retention, staff development and community outreach. Jennifer Randolph recently co-authored "The Competitive Edge, Diversity & Inclusion Fundamentals for Agency Leaders," an American Association of Advertising Agencies Publication, January 2012. Ms. Randolph is a graduate of Colgate University and completed the National Association for Multi-ethnicity in Communications (NAMIC) Executive Leadership Development Program at the University of California, Anderson School of Business
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