My first exposure to entrepreneurship was in 6th grade when I tried to start my own lawn cutting business. One of my normal chores assigned by my dad during the summer was to cut my lawn every other Saturday. The neighbor living to the left of our house approached me one Saturday after I finished cutting my lawn and offered me $20 to cut hers. I excitedly said yes and immediately started cutting her lawn. When I was halfway done with her front yard, my lawn mower ran out of gas, so my dad drove me to the nearest gas station, and I used $5 of the $20 I just made to buy 3 gallons of gas. I quickly learned that it cost money to operate a business. The following Saturday, I went door to door to offer lawn cutting services for $20. I ended up with 3 additional neighbors as customers and I maintained the 4 customers for the summers of 7th and 8th grade.
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I am taking ENT 3003 due to having a desire of starting my
own talent acquisition consulting company. I have 6.5 years of experience as a
headhunter with recruiting agencies and 3 years of experience in corporate
talent acquisition for a Fortune 500 organization. I currently act as an
internal consultant to our business leaders to help develop talent strategies
to meet our current and future business needs. Working on the agency side, I was
hired by companies with broken talent acquisition programs in order to find and
hire people for them that they could not get for themselves. I feel with my
experience and consulting capabilities I can carve out a solid book of business
consulting with companies to help them improve their talent acquisition programs.
That is a perfect example of an entrepreneurship story. One of my best friends did this when we were younger and he now runs a full lawn service company and has been really successful with it. Your reason for taking ENT3003 was very impressive. I think you will get a lot out of this class to help you in the future. Good luck!
ReplyDeleteHey Justin,
ReplyDeleteThis is a great anecdote of an entrepreneurial time you experienced. When I was young I used to umpire baseball games for $20 a game. I think learning the value of money young allowed me to better budget myself. It already seems you are on your way to the top based on your reason for joining this course. Good luck!