Entry-Level Positions For Aspiring Coffee Professionals
Contrary to common assumptions, Mark, Co-founder and President/CEO at Caffe Luxxe, highlights that the coffee industry offers diverse entry-level roles beyond barista positions, stating "a coffee business is a business like any other". Therefore, students can pursue roles aligned with their academic backgrounds in areas like accounting, marketing, or sales, demonstrating the broad career opportunities within the industry.
Business, Marketing, Sales, Accounting, Entry-Level Jobs
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Mark Wain
Co-founder and President / CEO
Caffe Luxxe
UC Berkeley
University of Southern California, Marshall School of Business MBA
Economics
Food, Beverages & Alcohol, Hospitality, Restaurants & Events
Strategic Management and Executive
Scholarship Recipient, Pell Grant Recipient, Took Out Loans, Greek Life Member, First Generation College Student
Video Highlights
1. There are many entry-level positions in the coffee industry beyond being a barista.
2. A coffee business is like any other business, offering roles in accounting, marketing, and sales.
3. Understanding the product delivery process (as a barista or roaster) is a valuable experience in the industry.
Transcript
What entry-level positions are there in this field that an undergraduate college student might consider?
Surprisingly, there are all different kinds of entry-level positions. What people miss or don't truly understand is that a coffee business is a business like any other.
Someone studying accounting can get an accounting job. Someone studying marketing could get a marketing job, and someone studying sales could get a sales job, and so on. Most people's first interaction in the coffee industry is thinking they should be a barista.
That's a great thing too, because understanding how things work, or with a roaster, understanding how the delivery of the product works, is an amazing experience. So there are tons of opportunities in this industry.
You just have to understand that a business is a business. Whatever your passion is and whatever your area of study is, that's what you should seek out.