Title: Nacie Pereira
Class 12 months: 2007
Title: Director of Expertise Growth
Group Title: Rue Gilt Groupe
1. In a single sentence, what does your job entail?
My job focuses on creating the talents, behaviors, and management qualities that Associates, Managers, and Administrators at my firm have to make the enterprise profitable AND get pleasure from satisfying careers.
2. What deliberate and unplanned occasions linked you to your {industry} and your first employer after Holy Cross? How did you study/resolve it was a very good match for you?
I wouldn’t say I’ve a specific {industry} that I serve, I might say that I’ve an industry-agnostic ability set. Studying and Growth, Expertise, and Teaching are {industry} agnostic by way of their greatest practices in some ways. I received into my space of labor due to my first job after HC. I used to be a Historical past main and didn’t know what I needed to do after college. I took the highest-paying job I may discover, which was in monetary software program, and realized rapidly that it didn’t align with who I used to be and the way I needed to contribute. At HC, there’s such a beautiful emphasis on contributing to the world and serving others, and being within the mistaken position helped me understand the best way I wish to contribute and serve is thru strolling alongside and supporting others on their profession journeys – being within the mistaken job impressed me to assist others develop and guarantee they had been in the correct jobs for them! I discovered teaching virtually by chance and have been in love with that work, and all growth work, ever since.
3. What had been you concerned in whenever you had been on campus?
I used to be an RA in Healy for 3 years (my senior 12 months I used to be the HRA). I used to be additionally concerned within the Mild Opera Firm (lengthy defunct, I believe!).
4. What was your main and the way did it have an effect on your profession selections?
I used to be a Historical past main and I beloved it. The Historical past Division at Holy Cross is my pleased place. It impacted my profession selections by encouraging me to suppose huge image, to synthesize data, see themes, and make connections which may not be readily apparent. All vital qualities in a coach!
5. What are one or two expertise that you just developed at Holy Cross that you just use in your work?
Asking questions with real curiosity and bringing a service orientation to every thing I do. The Jesuit philosophy of being an engaged, serving member of your neighborhood has helped me method my work with heat, helpfulness, and enthusiasm.
6. What recommendation do you’ve for college kids on campus as we speak?
Permit your self to decelerate within the expertise of being at HC; at instances, school can really feel like a automobile taking you to no matter is subsequent in your life. However HC is a really particular place that permits you to discover and develop your complete self, not simply as a scholar however as a human on the planet. Embrace that, and provides your self permission to go sluggish sufficient to savor as a lot as you possibly can.
