HBCU CONNECT’s Post

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Good morning. We are here at Washington Nationals Park for the. Amazing event we're going to have here on June 28th, Friday. Looking forward to it, stay tuned. Common. Yeah, I was really excited coming into the, you know, the candidates have been amazing. Everything from entry level candidates to professionals. Everyone has been so eager to grow and learn and I love that everyone has been prepared and they came with questions and very polished. I think we're expecting some extraordinary talent. And we weren't disappointed. Oh my God, it was amazing. I was really surprised, I'm not gonna lie, by the turn out, it was so many people, so many young professionals. It was amazing. I had, this is my first time, so I'm very, very impressed. I will say that I'm so I was expecting a good amount of sponsors, a good amount of other organizations, good amount of candidates, right? Like I don't necessarily know if I had a number in mind. I think this is definitely met if not exceeded my expectations primarily because everybody's been so nice. Everybody has been really interested and really eager and finding out about Waters, finding out about opportunities, asking us questions, joining our panel. Talk about advocating for DEI. And so it's been a really great opportunity to just connect with other people, the quantity of people and everyone's been very nice, very approachable, very easy to talk to you, very professional. And I'm excited to see their roles potentially in Corolla. So I came out here expecting to be great diverse talent and you actually absolutely surpassed my expectations. I've met great people from early talent professionals and some senior talent as well. Great, great, great rail round rounded. Happy to be here. Thanks for inviting us. I think it's a great turn out and I think there was many different people from different backgrounds and walling candidates coming by the table. We didn't have high expectations only because we were kind of one of the only marketing agencies here. But the amount of people that were interested in the work that we do was very impressive. I think we collected well over 100 resumes and of people of interest and LinkedIn connection. So definitely well worth it and we will definitely be doing this again if I forward the opportunity. So as a brand ambassador, I admit this being my first event then I'm attending. I actually didn't have any expectations. But what I will say that I really appreciate it was the range of candidates. So you had folks from with, you know, very brief background of different educational backgrounds. Then you have more seasoned individuals who've been in the workforce for a little while longer. So I really appreciated the opportunity to talk to. You know, folks that are candidates that have varying degrees of experience and we were expecting to meet a lot of people and it very much exceeded our expectations. I would say. We had really quality conversations with folks and it just felt like people were really trying to connect with what we may have had as opportunities and we were really trying to figure out more about them so that we could find opportunities that made sense. So as far as the traffic, a lot more students than what we anticipated. There a lot more people than what we anticipated. Great students we're just talking about. We are so impressed by the way that they're dressed, the way that they present themselves, everyone being so polite, poised, the mannerism is like really up to par. And everyone is so prepared, giving us resumes ready to talk about what their interests are and knowing what they want. And I think it's been amazing, amazing to be a part of this. I'm actually honored to be a part of this just to see so much talent from so many black, young black folks and even older folks coming in and with the interest of. You know, kind of expand their careers and their network. And he's taking that next step. It's been a really honorable event.