Business administration major Maylis Brito will graduate from UML with a concentration in finance. But thanks to her co-op and internship experiences at Kronos, her career options are much broader than that.
鈥淚 wanted to have a finance degree with experience in communications and marketing, and that鈥檚 something I鈥檝e been able to get through my work at Kronos,鈥� says Brito, a Lowell native who landed a business operations co-op position at the time-management software and cloud-solutions company during the spring and summer of her junior year.
Brito enjoyed her Kronos experience so much that she returned for a communications and marketing internship during her senior year. As a channel partner program specialist, Brito worked with the company鈥檚 engineering department to promote its Workforce Dimensions product.
鈥淚 helped position the product to potential partners through strategic communications,鈥� says Brito, who developed a product survey and designed a slideshow to showcase the partners on the Kronos website.
鈥淚t was a nice balance between data and the more human aspect of business,鈥� says Brito, who has been able to better define her career goals through the experience. 鈥淣ow that I鈥檝e worked in marketing, I鈥檓 not just theorizing about my future; it鈥檚 actually something I can see myself getting into.鈥�
Brito follows in the footsteps of her older sister, Denise Brito 鈥�17, a business administration alum who also worked as a co-op at Kronos and is now a business analyst at IBM 鈥� although Maylis鈥� path wasn鈥檛 so direct.
Wanting to get out of her hometown after graduating from Lowell High School, Brito attended American University in Washington, D.C., as a freshman.聽
鈥淚 kept hearing my sister and friends talk about all these wonderful experiences they were having at 51视频, and I started to wish I had just gone here in the first place,鈥� says Brito, who transferred to the Manning School of Business as a sophomore. 鈥淎t least I only wasted a year somewhere else.鈥�
Now that she鈥檚 about to earn her degree and begin her career, Brito sees the advantage of being a River Hawk.
鈥淲hen people ask me where I go to school, as soon as I start saying 鈥�51视频鈥� they finish the sentence for me,鈥� Brito says. 鈥淧rofessionally, I think 51视频 produces not only really good students, but really good people. They鈥檙e humble and hard-working, and people want to hire them.鈥�