823 Advizers
Britt
Retired - Former SVP Of HR /CHRO
Cloudera
UC Berkeley; UCLA extension for an HR certificate post graduation from Berkeley
N/A
UC Berkeley - Social Sciences
Q1Career path
Career Development
Career Exploration
Executive/Leadership
0:43
"And I thought, Hmm, I can't be a psychologist. So then I went into business and I found the path through hr."
Q2Main responsibilities
Team Building
Business Strategy
Human Resources
0:34
"I needed to build the HR team from scratch and have it aligned with the business strategy."
Q3Day in the life
Strategy
Problem-Solving
Executive/Leadership
0:38
"we had an employee die in Brazil and we didn't have a death policy at the time. So like how do you figure that out?"
Q4Most important skills - role
Strategic Alignment
Cross-Team Collaboration
Business Acumen
1:00
"you need to be somebody who can work across teams"
Q5Favorite parts - role
Executive/Leadership
Problem-Solving
Strategy Implementation
0:48
"in HR you never know what you're gonna get"
Q6Biggest challenge - role
Executive/Leadership
Workplace Challenges
Industry Realities
0:59
"companies are expected to provide things that in the past they weren't expected to provide to employees"
Q7Favorite parts - industry
Human Resources
Career Development
Mentorship
0:25
"I love, um, the fact that I work with people every day 'cause I'm a super extrovert and I love, um, helping people with their careers."
Q8Who thrives in industry
Results-oriented
Problem-solving
Resilience
0:43
"The people who typically thrive are people who are problem solvers and people who are resilient."
Q9Wish known before - industry
Career Development
Industry Analysis
Salary Negotiation
0:45
"You could have the exact same job but in a different industry and it can pay twice as much."
Q10Entry-level positions
Job Search
Entry-Level
Career Development
1:00
"Learn new skills in every single job."
Q11Significant lesson - career
Management
Leadership
Human Resources
1:06
"People wanna be treated with respect. People get to make decisions about what their priorities are, and you're not gonna be their priority, but you sure move up a lot if you're a nicer person."
Q12College ideas for success
Eclectic Course Selection
Curiosity
Learning Mentality
0:40
"I wouldn't necessarily pick the easy one, I would pick the one that I thought, oh, I'm, I'm gonna learn this."
Q13How identity impacted career
Executive/Leadership
Overcoming Challenges
Communication
0:51
"I've always, almost always been the only woman in the room 'cause I've been in a tech environment."
Q14Advice for social science majors finding their first job
Networking
Career Development
Job Search
1:51
"talk to lots of people. Network, keep track of the networking. This is where tools and spreadsheets come in."