My name is Kristen Smith. I am currently a fifth year senior at the University of Wisconsin Whitewater and will be graduating in May. I am double majoring in human resource management and public relations. I am from a tiny town, technically I think we are a village, in south central Wisconsin. I grew up on my family's dairy farm where we have about 100 head of Holstein cows. I have two younger sisters and one younger brother; family is very important to me and we are pretty close.
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| Me showing my March calf, Brenda, and World Dairy Expo last fall in Madison. |
It is hard to believe that graduate is less than a year away and I am still unsure exactly what I want to do with my life. At first I was contemplating going directly to graduate school, but have now decided to get some work experience and go back to school in about 3-5 years. Ideally, I would love to get a job in a large corporation working in the human resource department. I am not sure yet what area of HR I would like to work in. I got into HR because I wanted to do recruiting. Currently I am doing an internship working in the learning and development department and I also like this area as well. That is one thing that I really like about HR is that it is really diverse. I decided to add PR as a another major to help market myself better in the tough job market and I feel that it complements my HR major very well as communication/public relations is big part of HR whether it be employee relations or advertising a new job. I also just recently did a five month study abroad in Arnhem, Netherlands. (see my blog: http://www.doubledutch2011.blogspot.com). I would love to work for an international company in hopes of working in another country someday. (If I move to another country I am going to apply to be on House Hunters International; I love that show!) I very excited to see where my future will take me.
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| Me with two friends from Austria, in Amsterdam this past spring. |
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