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Lauren
Senior Account Coordinator
Event Marketing Tech Company
University of Iowa - 2014
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Q1Career path
Data Analysis
Event Planning
Experiential Marketing
3:09
"So my major is an interdepartmental. Students and marketing analytics and obviously Communications. So in a nutshell a weird college experience kind of brought me to what I do today."
Q2Main responsibilities
Data Analysis
Sales
Client Management
1:31
"I'm in charge of everything day-to-day working with our clients kind of through the whole sales process and then getting to their final product"
Q3Day in the life
Problem-Solving
Data Analysis
Project Management
1:52
"It is different every day. You never know what you're gonna walk into."
Q4Most important skills - role
Detail-Oriented
Data Analysis
Project Management
1:33
"managing your schedule extremely well and you're managing your clients. So I think that kind of all entails together"
Q5Favorite parts - role
Client Relations
Experiential Marketing
Data Analysis
1:39
"We get to work with really awesome clients like Lexus, Mercedes, Toyota, Swisher Sweets, American Family Insurance."
Q6Biggest challenge - role
Budgeting
Sales
Marketing
1:34
"Biggest challenge is definitely the sales portion. Everyone's fighting for a budget."
Q7Favorite parts - industry
Technology
Event Management
Marketing
1:35
"So it's really kind of a combo of enjoying all these different industries that I'm a part of."
Q8Who thrives in industry
Communication
Problem-Solving
Data Analysis
1:51
"The people who thrive are obsessed with finding interesting things in a data set."
Q9Wish known before - industry
Data Analysis
Communication
Teamwork
1:56
"Data is central to everything that is functioning in the world today. You have to have data; if you can't measure, then you're lost."
Q10Entry-level positions
Client Management
Entry-Level Marketing
Account Management
1:09
"It's something you can do right out of college, honestly."
Q11Significant lesson - career
Communication
Preparation
Organization
1:28
"Prepare for the big and the little things; there's never such a thing as over or under preparing."
Q12College ideas for success
Career Exploration
Communication
Networking
2:06
"I think I had a job lined up six months before I graduated so. Seniors great. I mean I was already set."
Q13How identity impacted career
Overcoming Challenges
Communication
Confidence
1:36
"I think it's important that you learn how to navigate those situations. And that just comes with time and understanding the different personalities in a room."