Elena

"I probably applied to 400-500 jobs with not a single response back, not an email back, not even a rejection back."

"My main responsibilities are to plan, execute, optimize, and report out on all paid media for the brand."

"I'm very much in the weeds with my team on what's going on with existing campaigns. What's performing, what we need to change."

"being able to find Trends being able to find insights is really valuable"

"advertising is how people experience your brand...you kind of hold that at your fingertips"

"So, you know, if you value efficiency and those type of things which people in this role often, do you can get derailed pretty quickly and pretty often."

"The advertising industry is wildly fun. It's very much where innovation happens, where tech advances, and because there's revenue opportunities, there's so many ways that you can kind of experiment and test and do really fun stuff."

"People are curious, ask a lot of questions and learn for a better understanding of the way things work."

"The work will always be there. It's not a weakness to say that you can't or you cannot do something. It's actually a strength."

"There's tons of entry-level roles with advertising agencies...They're really incredible, they're built to train and they're built to onboard."

"find managers that appreciate that that look for different styles and build their teams. That way those often can be the strongest teams."

"I definitely took advantage of career fairs. I definitely took advantage of networking."