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Catching Up with an Old Friend
Administrative Office Professional graduate and former Harrisonburg Campus staff member Vickie Pullen recently paid a visit to her alma mater to talk about her experiences since leaving the campus last fall to work for the Harrisonburg operation of an $11.5-billion global corporation which provides printing & related services.
Vickie knows from experience how a valuable education can keep one “marketable” in the global marketplace. When she was the career center director for the campus, “one thing I tried to stress to students…your job security is not in the company, it’s in your skills,” she says. ”It’s all the more reason to just gain as much as you possibly can” from each work experience.
“National changed my life tremendously”
With her National College degree, Vickie has gained a wide variety of experience, having served as both community resource coordinator and career center director for National College, as well as a human resources specialist for a local engineering firm. Her education and experience paid off handsomely with a lucrative offer last September that led to her current position as a human resources generalist. She now handles an array of duties including hirings and separations, equal opportunity, and employee relations for a 1,000-employee operation.
“I think I have utilized every class I have taken, even those that I thought I would never need,” she admits with a chuckle. “Everything I have taken, both professionally and personally, because National changed my life tremendously, [from] instilling self-confidence, to the ‘book smarts’.”
