11.9.15 Assignment

This month at my mentorship, I have been busy preparing promotional items, attending events and preparing for the Homeowner Orientation. I attended the Mule Camp festival where I sold tickets for Battle of the Builders, the annual raffle of playhouses built by Hall County High school students. I have also moved offices so I spent a majority of a week organizing all of the marketing materials I had. I also spent time locating all of the marketing materials that had been stored in various locations around the store due to not having a specific office or location for marketing items. Once I was settled into my new office, I was able to start attempting to list items on Ebay. I did run into some complications with our Ebay account that still haven't been completely settled so I have not yet listed any items. I do however, have everything prepared, such as the pictures and the description, so that when the issues are worked out, I will be able to immediately list items. The whole process of trying to fix the Ebay account has taught me a lot that I never thought I would experience at my mentorship. The Director of Finance is not in her office during the same ours that I have been so we have had to overcome the communication problems in order to work together to be able to list on Ebay. I have also had to contact Ebay's customer service, this showed me how to handle issues that I didn't think I would have to deal with.

The one class in all of my high school career that has helped me in my mentorship is the Marketing Principles class I am currently taking. It is hard for me to say which one helps the other more, both my mentorship and the class go hand in hand. The class has educated me on many marketing terms and techniques that I have used at my mentorship and my mentorship has presented me with opportunities to experience everything we talk about in the class. Both have increased my understanding in marketing since I am sitting in a classroom learning all about marketing during 5th period then I come directly to my mentorship for 6th and 7th period to utilize the skills and information I have learned.

11.2.15 Assignment

In regards to my mentorship site, Habitat for Humanity, I feel as though they are a partner in my education because not only have I learned many valuable life skills and job skills, I have also learned more about the career I want to pursue. They have enabled me to see most aspects of marketing, including the ones that nobody wants to do. My mentorship has also helped me in my marketing class. Rather than just learning about marketing techniques, I am actually experiencing them first hand. I have found that I do well in my marketing class and I feel it is due to what my mentorship has taught me and all the knowledge I have gained from being here. I also feel like I am one step ahead of other high school students that may want to pursue marketing but don't have and internship opportunity available to them. Since I am already experiencing the marketing pathway, I am able to definitely say this is the career I wish to go into after college. Other students may not realize what marketing entails or they might not be positive on the career they want to pursue.

My supervisor and mentor tell me often that I have made their lives easier. Since I am mentoring at a non-profit, there are not as many employees as a bigger company would have, such as Coca-cola. I have been able to do the work that was previously delegated to the employees even though it was not necessarily in their job description. One of the goals I have met so far at my mentorship has been discovering if I truly want to pursue marketing. I realized about a month into my mentorship that I definitely want to pursue marketing as a career. I am glad I have completed this goal because now I can dedicate myself to marketing the Restore rather than trying to think of another career field I would be interested in before college. Some of my goals have changed, this is only because I wasn't sure what to expect when I began my mentorship. Now, my goals are tailored to fit my duties at the Restore. I have also created weekly and monthly goals for myself, depending on what project I am working on. These goals may change from week to week, as soon as I accomplish one goal, I am moving on to the next.