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Career Roadmap
Kyrie's work combines: Business, Education, and Learning / Being Challenged
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Take Roadmap QuizSkills &
Education
Here's the path I took:
High School
Matoaca High School
Bachelor's Degree
Psychology, General
Virginia Commonwealth University
Here's the path I recommend for someone who wants to be a Training & Development Specialists:
High School
Bachelor's Degree: Psychology, General
Learn more about different paths to this careerLife & Career Milestones
My path in life took a while to figure out
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First, I focused on getting my education to create a foundation for my future career.
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Then I began to pursue other opportunities beyond the retail work I was doing during college.
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I was hired in at Capital One with a job interacting directly with our customers on the phones.
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Then I learned how to be successful in a support role doing case work for various groups.
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Once I learned core aspects of my business, I was able to learn how I could best support my peers.
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Then I expressed interest to expand to a training role and was granted the opportunity.
Defining Moments
How I responded to discouragement
THE NOISE
Messages from Friends:
Working in a 9-5 office job would be a waste of time after I spent 6 years pursuing a college degree in Psychology.
How I responded:
I took the skills and attributes that I learned from successfully graduating college (not just the materials learned in class, but the life skills gained through the overall experience of earning a degree) and I applied them to being driven and successful in a business workplace. I also began to tap into the materials I learned regarding people interactions and used those to my benefit in navigating a corporate atmosphere so in actuality, my degree in Psychology HAS helped me be successful.
Experiences and challenges that shaped me
Learning to manage my finances after college was a struggle because I had amassed quite a bit of debt during those years. As a now established adult, I have learned to negotiate the difference between wants and needs and focus on priorities.