The COVID-19 Internship: Recent Episodes
Rebeca Farache
Welcome to the COVID-19 Internship!
By listening to this series, you’ll be able to sit in on interviews with professionals from all industries and learn about their individual career journeys... Basically, you’ll learn how you can get your dream job by listening to how others got theirs.
Guest | Shannon Howard, Vice President of Comedy Development at Warner Bros. Television
Memorable Quote | “The best advice I’ve got in my career was from the assistant I interned for. She told me that I should start at an agency as my first job out of college. I didn’t understand the advice… but working at an agency is like graduate school for the entertainment business.. ”
Guest | Sandy Carter, Vice President at Amazon Web Services
Memorable Quote | “What would you like to set as your true north? And it has to be a true north in today’s world not yesterday’s world. What are the skills that are going to be so important in the future now? And can you spend some time learning those?”
Welcome to the 10th episode 🥳 Get ready to hear from the person who basically taught me everything I know... Guest | Sergio Farache, Senior VP at Tech Data
Guest | Judy Zhu, CEO and Founder of MoneyGirls
Memorable Quote | “If you don’t want to be criticized. Say nothing. Do nothing. Be nothing. But if you do want to choose success, you’re gonna say things, do things and be things that aren’t gonna work out so when that happens, let’s normalize that, and then share tips. ”
Guest | Micheal Dumlao, Director of Brand at Booz Allen Hamilton
Memorable Quote | “What histories exist.. for those of us who represent still largely underrepresented minorities in these corporate spaces… I think it's really important to understand the history of any of us in these positions..”
Guest | Michelle McKelvey, Agency Partner at Facebook
Memorable Quote | “As you find success in your career, as you find your voice, it’s really really easy to get caught up in that. I think always remembering that you are 0-1, whether it’s in every meeting, every conversation, in your work or in every job application… is really important”
Guest | Patrick Zammit, President EMEA at Tech Data
Memorable Quote | “The two companies were doing the same business but the culture was very different and you have a lot of codes when you enter a company that are not explicit...Every time I started in a new organization...my first objective was to understand all the unwritten codes...so that I could adjust my behavior to fit.. ”
Guest | Ajmal Noorani, Senior Vice President at Cognizant
Memorable Quote | “They gave us a few weeks or a few months of training...I feel that companies today do less and less of that. Where they invest in their people… ”
Guest | Carola Cazenave, Vice President of Global BP Ecosystems at Pega
Memorable Quote | “Don't take life too seriously. I have taken it so seriously that I have been running and running to be perfect and do everything that I have stressed myself in a way that no one expected me to stress… it's not needed.”
Guest | Kevin O’Connell, Founder of The Niche Movement and FYN Creative
Memorable Quote | “Especially the first week or two, I thought I could do all this stuff… and then I was like I can’t do all this stuff I’m not in a good head space… I think everyone was forcing this whole learn a new skill… and I think in the first 4-8 weeks that’s not practical cause we don’t know what life is like and maybe we don’t feel motivated when there’s death…”
Guest | Stephanie Ferguson, Corporate Vice President at Microsoft
Memorable Quote | “I partner with each of them but it’s very much an individual partnership. And so what I have been doing is I’ve been saying “hey people now is the time not to be like this. Now is the time for us to step back and say we are going to communicate as Microsoft..”
Guest | Jackie Susuni, Business Executive at Deloitte Heat
Memorable Quote | “Just because you are at a certain level doesn’t mean your age has to be at a certain number. It is more about the poise that you bring, the honesty...”