The FSU Panama City alumna earned her bachelor’s degree in business administration in summer 2015 and went on to her dream job. She is the youngest person working for Redken5th Ave, a professional hair care brand owned by L’Oreal.
Transferring from a private, Catholic university in New York, Jamie had a completely different experience at FSU Panama City. The thing that she loved most was the fact that most of her classes were hands-on. She had never experienced this style of teaching before because at her previous school, every class was taught straight out of the book.
During her first day of class at FSUPC, she was forced out of her comfort zone to make a presentation about herself during Dr. Leslie Lipton’s GEB Communications course.
“This is something that absolutely terrified me because I’m naturally an extremely shy person and my face gets beet red if I have to be in front of people for any reason,” Jamie recalled.
Later on in the class, Jamie learned this would become a weekly occurrence. She stuck with the class, becoming more comfortable giving presentations and being in front of people with each assignments. As much as she dreaded it at the time, the requirement drastically helped her in her career today.
“At my current job, I always have to be in front of people and make multiple presentations a week, and if it wasn’t for all of my hands-on classes I would’ve never been able to do this,” she said.
While most of us dread that one required internship in college, Jamie took on three. She knew that in order to succeed in that kind of competitive market, she had to build her experience and her resume. Her first internship was as an Editorial Intern at Daily Makeover in New York City. She then went on to become a beauty intern at Seventeen Magazine, where she managed the beauty closet, assisted with editorial photo shoots and obtained credit information for each issue. Her third internship was with College Fashionista, where she was responsible for producing weekly beauty online news articles and produced weekly street-style fashion blog posts. Her internship experiences gave her the insight to know this was the path she wanted to take. She also applied her passion in creating her own YouTube channel Allthingzglam.
Now working in the Redken5th Ave retail division — a position is usually only offered to recent MBA graduates — she is on the U.S. Marketing responsible for all new and existing product launches and promotions. Her team curates and executes all advertising materials that we see related to the brand. She works closely with the creative department, digital team and demand planning to ensure their objectives are met.
“Don’t ever let anyone one tell you that your dreams are too big,” she said. “Whatever it is that you want in your life, you can achieve it as long as you put in the work.”
— Sandra de Arrigunaga
Four Crossed Logs intern
professional communication major
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