Listen to Marissa Smith, Vice President, Transformation & Operations at Bluestem. Learn about the international experience of a retail professional who has traveled and worked overseas in Asia. She discusses how she moved to Hong Kong to learn about the business of her new company before coming back to the U.S. to manage teams from Asia and PA. She discusses her experience living and working in Asia after she moved overseas, where she lived for 5 years. She emphasizes the importance of being a lifelong learner.
PA Standards:
- Career Awareness and Preparation
Learning Objectives:
- Relate careers in global marketing to individual interests, abilities, and aptitudes.
- Evaluate school-based opportunities for career awareness and preparation: major choice.
- Understand some of the challenges of working and living overseas.
Appropriate for grades 11-12
Time: 7 minutes
