Focos
Estas son las historias profesionales de diversas personas que trabajan en una gran variedad de profesiones. Vea o lea en qué se inspiraron para seguir su carrera, cómo eran de pequeños, qué es lo que más les gusta de su profesión y mucho más.
Watch and listen to Aileen talking about what she learned in her vet tech program at Foothill College that prepared her for her career as a vet tech.
Watch and listen to Aileen give advice to aspiring vet techs.
Full Name: Carly Gabara
Title: Regional Manager of Signature Experiences, Unibail Rodamco Westfield
I am a dedicated and motivational people manager with a passion for guest experience and developing teams with ten years of progressive management experience in retail and hospitality. I facilitate training programs to internal and external team members. I work with guest, retailer, and employee relations.
In your own words, describe your career.
My first job was at a frozen yogurt shop where I worked my way up to a manager. Next was the retail world with Macy’s as a…
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Paul Yanover has been the President of Fandango since 2012. Over seven years, the once small movie ticket selling company has grown from under 125 employees to over 700 with offices in the U.S. and South America. Yanover said it has become a dedicated marketplace of “experiences for consumers across the entire lifecycle of entertainment” through the acquisition of companies like Rotten Tomatoes and M-Go, which helped build the home streaming service FandangoNOW. Before he helmed the NBC Universal affiliate, Yanover held executive positions at The Walt Disney Company’s Animation…
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Full Name: Natasha Ruiz
Title: RN, MSN, Emergency and Family Nurse Practitioner
I’m Natasha! I’m a nurse practitioner. I live in sunny California with my husband and our shaggy dog.
In your own words, describe your career.
I’m a dual, board certified Family and Emergency Nurse Practitioner. Even though I am a nurse practitioner, I am still a nurse, I am just using my license to practice in a different way. Nurse practitioners have the highest authority to treat in the nursing field. I can examine, diagnose, develop treatment plans, order diagnostic testing, prescribe…
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Jo Kwon has been a reporter for CBS 2/KCAL 9 since July of 2017. However her experience in journalism, working for print, radio, and broadcast outlets, goes back more than a decade. She started with a newsroom internship at The Cambrian and various local TV news stations in 2002 while studying for a Bachelor of Science degree in Journalism at the California Polytechnic State University in San Luis Obispo. Kwon said writing for a newspaper taught her that she wasn’t a fan of writing for print, but also that print is the “best foundation for a great storyteller/reporter” because of…
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