Hi! My name is Mara Short; thank you for showing interest in my portfolio. Check out the information below to learn more about me, my experience, current career goals, & recommendations.
Resume
Other Experience
I also have extensive supplemental experience through other leadership and volunteer positions:
• Wells Fargo Family Farm Volunteer, Minnesota Zoo
• Soccer Coach, City of Arden Hills
• Assistant Volunteer, Majestic Hills Therapy Ranch
• High School Soccer Captain, Metro United
Career Goals
My career goals are characterized by my strengths in both strategic thinking and creative problem solving. I strive to continue deepening my breadth of marketing and design experience on top of the foundation that has already been built and gleaned.
Initial years in the workforce are stretching and growing my knowledge base to equip me with the tools to manage my own work and business later in my career. For now, I look forward to opportunities in established businesses to learn and make strong business relationships.
Recommendation
May 16, 2017
To Prospective Employers: This is a letter of recommendation for Mara Woetzel.
I am an Assistant Professor in the Business/Economics Department at Bethel University where I teach Principles of Marketing, Marketing Research and Consumer Behavior. Prior to my position at Bethel, I worked in the advertising field for thirty years. I feel that my business experience and familiarity with today’s college students has equipped me with a meaningful, comparative context with which to assess students relative to their peers.
I met Mara Woetzel in the spring of 2016 as a student in my Marketing Research class. Mara stood out from the other students in a number of positive ways; she listens intently, she initiates discussion and she thinks outside the box. Mara was also instrumental in arranging for a guest speaker from the business community to share some of their real-world experience related to the topic of the week.
As is the privilege of most coaches and teachers, I have numerous opportunities to watch my students operate in their own habitat, among their peers. Everything I have witnessed tells me that Mara is a consistent performer. She is serious in class and well liked by those around her. She is inquisitive, proactive, collaborative and detail-oriented.
One of the things I like most about Mara is that she’s a wonderful team player. My class does a lot of “group” projects and it was quite evident that Mara leads and works well with others. She listens respectfully to those around her, she synthesizes the information shared by the group and typically, and she is the one to establish a plan for next steps.
Please give Mara Woetzel careful consideration; she’ll make you proud you hired her.
Respectfully submitted,
Jeff Stitt
Assistant Professor, Department of Business & Economics
Bethel University