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Entry-Level Positions for Aspiring Operations and Chief of Staff Professionals at Besa mi Vino

Jessica's experience organizing a Barbie-themed fashion show highlighted the importance of understanding different skill sets within a team; while their boss focused on "the big picture," Jessica discovered their strength in meticulous detail, leading to the realization that successful collaboration requires recognizing and leveraging individual strengths, as shown by their meticulous planning including personally inviting women-owned businesses.

Project Management, Communication, Teamwork, Problem-Solving, Executive/Leadership

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Jessica Goodall

Operations and Chief of Staff

Besa mi Vino

UCLA

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Communications

Food, Beverages & Alcohol

Communication and Marketing

International Student, Scholarship Recipient, Worked 20+ Hours in School, Student Athlete

Video Highlights

1. Understanding your own strengths and weaknesses (detail-oriented vs. big-picture thinking) is crucial for effective teamwork.

2. Collaboration involves recognizing and leveraging diverse skill sets within a team.

3. Attention to detail, even in seemingly small tasks, is essential for successful project execution and achieving a shared vision.

Transcript

What is one lesson that you have learned that has proven significant in your career?

This is a bit of a niche one, but I think a big touch point in my career was over the summer. We did a "Woman Empowered" fashion show, and it was all Barbie-themed around the movie. Warner Brothers actually gave us a bunch of props and were involved in the process, which was amazing.

I learned that I am an extremely detailed-oriented person. This goes from how you invite people on emails, making them feel special, to isolating specific groups that you want there. We had a big database of women-owned businesses that we personally invited. I even made the whole fashion show runway and the stage and everything.

There were definitely times my boss and I had different ways of looking at things. She's very big picture, and I'm focused on the details needed to get there. I've really learned that when working with people, you have to understand each other's skill sets.

If my boss is looking at the budget and saying, "This is how much I want to spend," I might say, "Okay, this is how much we want to spend, but within that, we need these small details for it all to work." So, identifying skill sets and being like, "You are better at this, but we also need this," is key to working together.

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