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New York City

Columbus, OH

Remote

Uriah Harston

Full stack

Ruby on Rails

Engineering

ReactJS

Software engineering

Front End Development

Full-Stack Software Engineer | React | NEXT.js | Rails | REST API | Sass | PostgreSQL

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Detroit

Katie Wallace

Marketing management

Event coordination

Non-profit

Project management

Marketing

Customer success

Community Engagement

Business Founder during COVID-19, soon to be MBA grad interested in social impact, corporate social responsibility, and community building

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San Francisco

Noah Wisnia

Management

Recruiting

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Justin Griffith Brown

Experiential production

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San Diego

Mimi Jain

Sales

Operations

>>>Hey, everyone. I'm super excited to present our next candidate for Project #1000Hires. Today we have coming our dear friend, Mimi. Mimi, thank you so much for joining us on this initiative.
<<<Yeah, thank you so much for having me. I'm super excited to be sharing more about myself and just be a part of this movement and initiative.
>>>It's absolutely our pleasure, and our goal here today is to get you hard afterwards. So Mimi, in order for us to get to know you better, why don't you give us a brief description of who you are and where you're from?
<<<Yeah, absolutely. My name is Mimi, I am Vietnamese but I grew up in Russia. When I was nine months old, my mom just picked me up and moved to Russia so I grew up in Russia, Moscow my whole life. I moved to United States about eight years ago, and this has been my journey since. People do often ask if I am a Russian spy, and I am not a Russian spy. I just speak five languages, though.
>>>Wow, хорошо.
<<<Yes, хорошо.
>>>Well, five languages grow, Vietnamese, grew up in Russia, moved to United States, I'm assuming along that whole entire journey, you have done multiple and accomplish multiple things. Why don't you tell us about one personal project you worked on that you're super proud of?
<<<Yeah. There are multiple projects that I've been working on just for myself, but I would say one particular one that I'm very proud of is the annual community outreach that I have been doing for the last three years here in San Diego. Usually, around the holiday times, I always set out a fund and create the page and I do the fundraising to then ask people to donate during holidays time so that we can go out and help the community, but not only that, bring people together and serve the community. We often forget that during holiday times, we get so caught up with our family and going home and just think about what is around us, but we forget about people that are not in front of us, people out in community that don't have families, people that are single moms that are really struggling during holidays to just meet the ends. That's one of the projects that I've been doing annually and I proudly say that every year we grow and we're able to bring people in. Every time it's scary to me because I always go to new places and new communities and involve new people, and always think, ""Oh my god, I don't know how I'm going to have enough money this time."" All the time, people come through and people donate and just this sense of community and willingness of people to help brings me joy. Me just being able to be that bridge between people who want to donate or do something, and between people in need just gives me a lot of joy.
>>>Wow, that's absolutely amazing and inspiring. Thank you for creating that. I wish a lot of success in that project. I hope it continues forever, and you never have an issue raising the necessary funds.
<<<Thank you.
>>> Let's flip the script a little bit and talk about challenges. Now, what's a personal challenge that you went through that you were able to overcome?
<<<Yeah. One of the biggest challenge I think so far that I had to overcome is when we decided to move to United States, the whole family, eight years ago. It was a lot of changes. Not only that, as a 21 years old, I thought that,oh my god, I'm leaving my whole life behind me, thinking that this is ridiculous, but as a family, we decided to do it. It was a big challenge for me to get adapted and learn the language. Yes, I'd studied English while I was in high school and college back in Russia, but I never really had one on one practice or just day to day conversation. So just the move here and trying to adapt everything and just even change your mindset of how you see the world because when first I moved here, I always say this, I thought of America as, Oh my God, that movie American Pie, that's real America. I was a little bit freaked out, but then it took me a little bit to just get to know more people, get into more circle of friends, and just really see differences. I really want to say proudly that I am so happy that we moved here, that I was able to overcome those challenges. The hard thing for me was to find a job. I came over here, I went to study my MBA, and while I was doing my MBA, it was required for us to look for internship. I was blessed in a way that I did not know how hard it was so I would just have all confident and just apply everywhere, but then after a few months not getting any responses back, and to see how competitive it is, then I start learning more and realized that because America has so many talent and so many people are out there trying to look for the same thing and they are very striving, I realized that I need to pick up my game and just be different. Finally I landed an internship at a local company here in San Diego, but not only that, my goal was to get the sponsorship from the company to actually stay and work. That was another challenge, just like the whole move here. I would say, from being intern and working for the company for four years, they were able to sponsor me and I was able to stay here and work as an international worker. That was tough, but I would say it's so worth it. I'm so proud that I was able to overcome it. It's not one thing that I overcome, it has been a continuous eight years overcoming, but I love what that taught me. It's the grit and just the ability to push through it even when it's hard.
>>>Wow, amazing. Absolutely amazing. I know that in your next role, you come with the ability to push through the hard times, five languages, open mind to multiple different types of cultures, but what are you looking for in your next job?
<<<For my next job I'm really looking for working with a company that is disruptive, that is looking into change the community, put some impact in the community by using technology. For my role, I would say the company that I want to work for, the way I see it is the partnership with them, where I can come in and use in advantage, my knowledge, my skills. I'm very good at operation sales. I've been a part of sales and operation for four years, I build a team, I know how to do project management, and also my new skills that I'm learning now is marketing. So just putting all of these things together, I want to be in partnership with the company where I can help them to disrupt the economy and community as well. The ideal role, I would say, would be operational manager or sales and marketing manager, where it's where it's teaching me something new, but I also can use my skills as well.
>>>Right. Amazing. Absolutely amazing. So Mimi, I want to wish you a lot of luck, a ton of success, and a tremendous amount of blessings. We're obviously going to do everything in our power to send as many opportunities along your way as possible to get you hired. Thank you.
<<<Yeah, thank you so much, really appreciate what you guys do and looking forward to working with you and building relationship for a longer term.

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