I fell in love, got married and had three children. My husband and I have experienced many financial hardships in our short married life. Early on in our marriage an identity theft left us with a foreclosed home and all of our savings gone. Around the same time new management took over and downsized the country club staff, leaving me without a job. To help get us back on our feet I took jobs as a server and daycare worker. During this time my goal was always to find an administrative position and as luck would have it, I found one in an unexpected place. Working as the administrative assistant at St. Patrick’s Church deepened my interest and love of the business field. I loved taking the creative processes and skills that I learned as a teacher and implementing them into my work. Creating PowerPoint presentations for parish-wide meetings as well as creating visually appealing pamphlets, flyers and weekly bulletins gave me a sense of accomplishment and purpose. I enjoyed meeting people from every walk of life and being able to directly meet their needs and help them reach their goals. Organizing and orchestrating fundraisers for the preschool was a professional high point. Coordinating with local business leaders, working with volunteers and seeing the success first hand drove me to want more out of my professional career than answering phones and taking appointments. I endeavored to make the parish and the staff better. I organized fun and engaging staff team building events. I opened communication between staff members by creating clear, practical guidelines and procedures. I encouraged parishioners to express ideas for groups or events that would benefit the parish and the community. Over the past year and a half, as I have stayed home to raise my infant daughter, I have actively searched for a better position than administrative assistant. I have been told numerous times that I am over qualified for entry-level positions but under qualified for positions in human resources. I guess you could say I am in a sort of an administrative limbo. Being in this limbo led me to search out opportunities to advance my career. It has always been my dream to get my master’s degree. In my search for online schooling options I immediately felt drawn to your program. I love that Stony Brook University is a S.U.N.Y. school as I believe in supporting New York State businesses and schools. The program courses are straight-forward, real world applicable and cover a broad spectrum of human resource areas. Stony Brook University’s Society for Human Resource Management Student Chapter is highly appealing as it provides instant access to networking opportunities and resources that
I fell in love, got married and had three children. My husband and I have experienced many financial hardships in our short married life. Early on in our marriage an identity theft left us with a foreclosed home and all of our savings gone. Around the same time new management took over and downsized the country club staff, leaving me without a job. To help get us back on our feet I took jobs as a server and daycare worker. During this time my goal was always to find an administrative position and as luck would have it, I found one in an unexpected place. Working as the administrative assistant at St. Patrick’s Church deepened my interest and love of the business field. I loved taking the creative processes and skills that I learned as a teacher and implementing them into my work. Creating PowerPoint presentations for parish-wide meetings as well as creating visually appealing pamphlets, flyers and weekly bulletins gave me a sense of accomplishment and purpose. I enjoyed meeting people from every walk of life and being able to directly meet their needs and help them reach their goals. Organizing and orchestrating fundraisers for the preschool was a professional high point. Coordinating with local business leaders, working with volunteers and seeing the success first hand drove me to want more out of my professional career than answering phones and taking appointments. I endeavored to make the parish and the staff better. I organized fun and engaging staff team building events. I opened communication between staff members by creating clear, practical guidelines and procedures. I encouraged parishioners to express ideas for groups or events that would benefit the parish and the community. Over the past year and a half, as I have stayed home to raise my infant daughter, I have actively searched for a better position than administrative assistant. I have been told numerous times that I am over qualified for entry-level positions but under qualified for positions in human resources. I guess you could say I am in a sort of an administrative limbo. Being in this limbo led me to search out opportunities to advance my career. It has always been my dream to get my master’s degree. In my search for online schooling options I immediately felt drawn to your program. I love that Stony Brook University is a S.U.N.Y. school as I believe in supporting New York State businesses and schools. The program courses are straight-forward, real world applicable and cover a broad spectrum of human resource areas. Stony Brook University’s Society for Human Resource Management Student Chapter is highly appealing as it provides instant access to networking opportunities and resources that