
Leah Barlet
Senior Analyst, People Development & Learning
Taco Bell
Taco Bell
Senior Analyst, People Development & Learning
I design, develop, and implement training for food and service initiatives.
I spend about half of my day at my desk and half of my day in meetings with my cross-functional partners and project teams. While at my desk, I spend about half of my time doing work designing, developing, or revising training materials and I spend the other half of the time collaborating with my team through brainstorming, working sessions, or just impromptu discussions. Other times, I spend parts of the day in restaurants observing and talking with Team Members.
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If you're in college and want to do my job, I'd recommend pursuing a degree in Business with a minor in a Design field. My job is an awesome combination of understanding the core operations of the Taco Bell business and utilizing creativity and out of the box thinking to develop engaging and effective training. I have to be able to keep up with Finance, Marketing, and Operations partners and use training strategies to help them solve problems.
"Straight out of college, I had a very high starting salary as a Financial Analyst. When I left that job to become a Recruiting Assistant, I had to take a pay cut and some people in my life did not agree with or understand this decision."