My Professional Identity

Hello All,
Welcome to my professional identity blog. I am very happy you took the time to visit my blog.
I am a senior at Alverno College, and I am graduating in May. I am working at Millway Health Care and Rehabilitation Center in Glendale as a human resources clerk. When starting at Alverno, I was very set in a career in human resources. I was also very aware that Alverno wasn’t able to offer me human resources major, or even minor. I worked with what was available, and created a business management major and two minors in professional communication and adult education, that has served me and my ambitions very well. So far I have been very lucky with the classes that I have taken and the professors that I have been taught by. All of the professors and staff at Alverno have been very helpful and informative in pursuing my career.

As a student at Alverno, I was very involved in the different student organizations that appealed to me and my interests. I participated in Circle K International in the first three years of college. Circle K International is a service organization that specializes in helping the communities and the children in the surrounding areas by spending time and raising money to help. The first year I was just getting to know the organization and was very interested in being more active. The executive board was in a rough time that first year. The second year, my friend Rebecca Surges, took over the president position and brought the club back into the arena of active college organizations. The third year I was in charge, with a new executive board and some very new and excited freshman coming in it was a great year to make a difference. That’s exactly what we did. That year we organized a Midnight Masquerade, a dance to fundraise money for Unicef, participated in the Boo Bash, and held a Locks of Love event which had over ten people donate their foot of hair for Locks of Love.

This year I am the Vice President of S.H.R.M. Alverno’s chapter of Society of Human Resources Management. It has been a very big help in getting to know the industry of HR and a step up in networking with the professionals that helped me get my two internships. I interned at Cooper Power Systems in Waukesha in the HR department as an assistant to the HR manager in charge of two plants. So that was my first experience in helping with two different building. My second internship was at Henry Schein Dental, it is a dental supply company with close to 2300 employees all over the country. This internship was great in helping me get to know what a larger company does in their human resources departments and helped me get to know the different state regulation that were enforced all over the country. Henry Schein was also the first time that I was able to write a policy. It was okayed by corporate and they were going to put it in the employee handbook that I was revising, but eventually pulled it in the end. They did keep it for future purposes. I learned a lot of the HR logistics as well as the logistics of an office and office politics. I was very lucky to have four great mentors and they were all so nice and patient with me as I learned their profession.

This is the last semester of my final year here at Alverno and I am very excited to get out into the world and show them what I can do. I have the job that I am going to graduate with, and plan to go full time in May. I am moving out into my own apartment with Jeff, my boyfriend, in May. I will be getting a dog in September.

My experiences at Alverno have shaped who I am now. The leadership experiences that I was confronted with as a sophomore at Alverno, have given me the opportunity to learn my leadership styles and how I react to stress and pressure. I have never been labeled as a number at Alverno; I have always been encouraged to speak out for myself and my peers and take charge of what I want in life. I have been taught to be self sufficient and be a strong Alverno Women capable of taking over the world.