0:04 I'm Tabitha - I'm the supply chain
0:08 logistics Association president and I'm
0:10 also a veteran I am here because I got a
0:15 medical retirement and I didn't know
0:18 what I wanted to do with life
0:20 and one thing I know it especially what
0:22 my life is I've had to start over again
0:25 so it was like okay this is my third and
0:28 start what am I gonna do now
0:30 and I chose to go back to school I've
0:32 started in the marketing program and
0:35 then I got here and I was like I don't
0:37 really think marketing is what I'm going
0:39 to do and I met dr. Austin and they
0:42 started talking to me about the supply
0:43 chain logistics program between him and
0:47 Miss Rogers I felt that that was a
0:49 perfect fit for what I wanted to do it
0:50 so that's how I ended up in the supply
0:52 chain logistics program
0:55 well when I first joined se la I think I
0:57 joined it for the same reason a lot of
0:59 people do is to have something different
1:01 on your resume but after our first tour
1:04 at the port of : it just really changed
1:07 my world I was like I'm really getting
1:09 ready to go out and see these different
1:13 industries that I'm learning about in
1:15 class and then after that we went a
1:17 couple of more tours and then I started
1:19 meeting people and it was like okay well
1:21 if you're looking for an internship or
1:23 you know we're looking for UWL students
1:25 for jobs and then I realized that this
1:28 association and I just teaching me or
1:30 showed me what I'm learning in class
1:32 there's all the way linking me to the
1:34 industry that I want to be in and now I
1:36 have contacts and we do networking event
1:40 in the spring where we have actually
1:43 companies come in and talk to just our
1:45 students our supply chain students our
1:48 SCL a students and we have had so many
1:51 people that have gotten internships and
1:53 jobs out of that and it's just been
1:56 great it was the best mistake I would
1:59 say it was a mistake as I didn't join
2:02 earlier but just joining thinking I'm
2:05 just gonna have it on my resume you know
2:08 that is there being a mistake was the
2:10 best mistake I could have made
2:14 Martin transportation came to our spring
2:17 career fair and I interviewed Lee Martin
2:20 transport then but I wasn't graduating
2:22 in the spring so it was like well we'll
2:25 look you up and you know look us up in
2:26 the fall when it's close to graduation
2:28 where one of our alumni Dakota Ledbetter
2:32 she actually landed the job then and
2:35 they were so impressed with her that
2:38 they heard of it came back in the fall
2:40 and our interview with them again and
2:43 they flew me down to Tampa
2:45 two weeks ago today actually for an
2:47 interview for a final interview I should
2:50 say and the rest is history
2:55 definitely join supply chain logistics
2:58 Association we do so much
3:03 you will meet so many people so many
3:06 contacts to put in your rolodex so
3:09 there's no way you should leave here
3:12 without a job
3:13 but there's no way you should not get an
3:16 internship especially within the
3:18 Association because we go on tours we
3:21 meet what people we have alumni come
3:22 back and speak if you do nothing else
3:27 our suggestion joint SD LA but I have a
3:31 model a that says if you don't join se
3:33 la join something do something because
3:36 all of these associations here for the
3:39 College of Business are here to help you
3:41 beyond UWF so that's my suggestion for
3:46 supply chains to live in any student
3:48 period