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Reese: Last year was my time at the
career fair, and, um, I remember being
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on the opposite end of things, being
super nervous to walk in and talk to
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some of these big branded companies.
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Justin Bedel: Welcome back to the
Purdue Agricultural Economics Podcast.
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My name is Justin Bedel, and I'm
a junior studying agronomy and ag
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business, and today I'm joined by the
other fellow student co-host, Kailee.
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How are you doing?
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Kailee Cooper: I'm good.
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It's exciting to be on for the first time
together and working together this year.
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Justin Bedel: Yeah.
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We have fall break coming up next week.
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Any big plans?
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Kailee Cooper: I'm actually going to
Kansas City for a show , so I'm really
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excited to get to go out there and show
some pigs . Anything exciting for you?
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Justin Bedel: Yeah, I'm gonna be going
home and, , hanging out on the farm and,
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hopefully see some harvest in action.
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It's a, it's an exciting
time of year for sure.
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It'll be fun to get off
campus for a few days.
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Kailee Cooper: Speaking of exciting, we've
had a lot of exciting things coming up,
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but I think today's episode is going to be
a special one, and I guess our word today
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is exciting, but I think that could be
used too to describe this episode because
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we're actually going to the College of
Ag Career Fair and interviewing different
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employees to figure out things that
they're looking for at the career fair and
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why they're actually joining us at Purdue.
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So it should be a special episode,
different than what we normally do, but
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we, as we have said, are very excited
to get to have you guys listen along.
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Justin Bedel: Yeah.
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So it'll be a great time to, , hear the
opportunities that each company has and,
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uh, maybe a little bit of advice for,
how to be successful at the career fair.
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Hopefully you'll all
enjoy and, , here we go.
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Okay, welcome here.
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I'm joined by Grant Goodeman
with Advanced Agrilytics.
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All right, in the spirit of elevator
pitches here at the career fair, give
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us Advanced Agrilytics elevator pitch.
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Grant: Okay, you guys are supposed
to be the one elevator pitching us.
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But hey, here's Advanced Agrilytics.,
We're an agronomy company that's super
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passionate about a lot of things, but
to kind of boil it down, one thing, or a
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lot of things that we focus on is we're
super passionate about helping growers
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with being hyper efficient with every
input dollar that, that goes out the door.
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Because we know that it's expensive
to put a corn crop out, it's
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expensive to put a bean crop out.
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But when we can focus on the spatial
aspect of precision ag, and we're
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identifying environments within the field
and identifying every acre differently,
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we're very aggressive in how we
reallocate inputs on a grower's operation.
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Because growers have to be super
efficient today, but at the same time, we
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cannot be leaving bushels on the table.
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We're all in the bushel raisin business,
so we have to continue to produce, and
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we can't leave bushels o- on the table.
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Justin Bedel: For, uh, students that
are maybe interested in, getting into a
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career helping farmers be more profitable
and, you know, maximizing those inputs
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they put on every acre you know, what
kind of paths can students, follow to,
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uh, maybe join Advanced Agrilytics?
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Grant: Yeah.
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So with Advanced Agrilytics, we have
We have multiple divisions, but one
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of the divisions is our agronomy,
our, our pro services division.
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But then we also have our research,
where we just do third-party research.
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So when you look at the pro services
or the grower direct route we would
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have a position called a precision
ag specialist, and what a precision
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ag specialist does is they are linked
up with a precision agronomist.
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Precision agronomist is the on-farm
agronomist, but , they also can't… It's
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harder for them to do their job without
a precision ag specialist to help with
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data entry, to help with soil sampling,
to help with grower conversations, to
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help with scouting in the summertime.
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So that's a great position for college
graduates, undergraduate graduates
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to jump in to our organization in
that precision ag specialist role.
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And that role it's designed to basically
learn under an agronomist for it could
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be one year, it could be two years, it
could be three years, could be 10 years.
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But eventually what we're gonna want that
precision ag specialist to do is start
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to build their own network and build
their own pipeline for opportunities
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that one day when they're ready to go
out on their own, they can start getting
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growers under their umbrella that they
can start working with before they would
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transition to a precision agronomist.
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Justin Bedel: So for students like
Kailee and myself, how do we become
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someone just at the career fair as
someone that you're wanting to interview
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for maybe those field specialist
internships or maybe even research?
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Grant: Yeah, that's a good question.
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Always do your research.
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Know a little bit about the
company that you're talking to
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before approaching that booth.
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And come prepared with good questions.
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Ask what the internship looks like, ask
what the day-to-days look like because
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we're gonna have questions for you, but
it's always better when it's a, when
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it's a back and forth conversation.
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Not that you have to have an encyclopedia
of questions, but just have four
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to five questions that you can ask
that you can get the company en-
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engaged in a conversation with you.
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And whatever your interest level is as
far as relocating, just be very clear,
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be very concise about, you know, "I
prefer to be in this area, or prefer
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to be in that area," or, "You can send
me wherever you want." So kind of be
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prepared to kind of know what you're
looking for as far as job responsibilities
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and duties, but also, like, "I'm
will- I'm willing to pick up for three
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months and go where you need me to go."
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Awesome.
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Thank you, Grant, and enjoy the rest
of your time here at Purdue University.
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Thank you.
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We're glad you came to visit.
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Kailee Cooper: I'm here with Beck's.
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Tanner: My name's Tanner Maxey.
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I sit in a talent acquisition
role for Beck's Hybrids.
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I'll handle the hiring and recruitment.
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But, uh, Beck's is the largest
family-owned retail seed
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company in the United States.
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We're based out of Atlanta,
Indiana, which is, um, just about
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50 minutes north of Indianapolis.
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Basically what we do is we sell
seed, and we help farmers succeed
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by all the product offerings that
go with that, that seed sale.
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Kailee Cooper: So Beck's is a
very, , widely known company in the ag
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industry I feel like, and just being
at the College of Ag Career Fair.
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Um, but what are you guys looking for in a
student when you guys come to these career
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fairs interacting with other people?
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Tanner: Great question.
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I would say, honestly, it's pretty
simple for us here at Beck's.
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We are one of, what I hear,
is few organizations that will
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consider freshmen as well.
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And the reason for that is, like, we don't
expect interns to have all the experience.
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Like, that's why it's
called an internship.
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For us, we really look for two things.
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It's a positive attitude
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If you can show up, we can teach
you everything you need to know.
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But you need to show up every day and
be positive about why you're there.
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Kailee Cooper: Well, as students,
we're very grateful for the, uh,
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opportunity as an intern freshman year.
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But if a student walks up to your booth,
what one piece of advice would you
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give to them before they would walk up?
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Tanner: I think you really did it with
the first question you asked me, and
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that is the elevator pitch is pretty key.
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Uh, we look for students that are
prepared, that know their talking points.
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So do your research prior come
with questions to ask, and don't
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be afraid to introduce who you are.
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That's- that sets the
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Kailee Cooper: Well, awesome.
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Thank you, and thank you for
being here and giving these
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opportunities to these students.
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We really appreciate it, and
we're glad you're here today.
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Tanner: Yeah.
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Thank you very much.
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Justin Bedel: Okay.
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We're luckily to be joined by Bayer,
and, um, I guess to start off here, in
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the spirit of elevator pitches, could
you give us Bayer's elevator pitch?
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Madisen: So I'm Madisen Stephens.
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I'm a Bayer field sales rep trainee,
currently located in Northern Kentucky.
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Reese: I'm Reese Roland, and I am also
a trainee, and I'm in Northeast Indiana.
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Madisen: So the Bayer elevator pitch.
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Looking big-scale Bayer has three
segments to it: crop science,
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pharmaceuticals, and then consumer health.
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Our- the people representing Bayer
here today are primarily on the
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crop science aspect of Bayer.
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We have some really recognizable brands
when you think of Bayer: DEKALB, Asgrow,
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Channel, and then our crop protection.
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When we look at Bayer as a whole,
we have everything from salespeople
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to research and development.
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We actually are a company that
is investing the most in our
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research and development out
of our competitors currently.
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Kailee Cooper: When you guys are at
the career fair and you see a student,
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what makes a student go from just
another student who's at the career
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fair to somebody who you want to
interview and potentially hire when
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you're looking at these aspects?
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Madisen: Yeah.
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I think when you first meet a student
and they come up, shake your hand, the
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energy they bring into the conversation.
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We want someone who's excited, who knows
what they want or the direction that
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they're kind of looking to go into.
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And just biggest tip, take a big breath.
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We're just normal people.
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We're excited to talk to you, and we
want to find you the best fit, whether
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it's with our company or directing
you in a place where you're going to
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be really happy with a future career.
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Justin Bedel: Yeah.
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So if someone wants to come up and is
super interested in Bayer and wants
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to be an intern, what's one piece
of advice that you would give them?
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Reese: Last year was my time at the
career fair, and, um, I remember being
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on the opposite end of things, being
super nervous to walk in and talk to
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some of these big branded companies.
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Um, my biggest piece of advice
is just to take a deep breath.
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Like Madison said, it is scary, but at
the end of the day, we're all people,
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and everyone that's in here is trying to
look for a job to develop their career
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further, whether that's an internship
or whether that's a full-time career.
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So taking a deep breath, and as cliché
as it sounds, but confidence is key.
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So having the confidence and
just taking a deep breath as
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soon as you walk in the room.
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Don't be nervous.
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We're all human, and you'll
be great whatever you do.
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Kailee Cooper: Those are some great
pieces of advice and different
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things that you've shared.
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So thank you for being here today
and giving your time to the students.
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And thank you for coming back to Purdue.
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So we're here with Zoetis.
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Payton: My name's Peyton Hines.
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I currently work for
Zoetis on the pork side.
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I actually initially started on the
pet care side, made that transition
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about two years ago to pork.
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Uh, we sell animal pharmaceuticals, uh,
actually globally, so my territory on pork
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is Indiana, Kentucky, Michigan, and Ohio.
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So do a lot of travel with
my job, but love my company.
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That's a big territory to travel across.
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I'm not home every night, that's for sure.
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Justin Bedel: Okay.
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So, to start off here, if you could
give students one piece of advice when
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at the career fair, what would that be?
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Payton: I would definitely
say first impressions matter.
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Uh, make sure you come up, firm
handshake, look them in the eye.
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The last thing I want you to
do is just hand me your resume.
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Uh, let's talk a little bit.
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Maybe if you've c- have done a little
bit of research on my company, did
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a little bit of research on me, I
think that helps us have a better
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one-on-one conversation to start with.
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Definitely have questions to ask us.
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Don't expect us to interview you.
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You need to come in and kind
of interview us, kind of like
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flip the role a little bit.
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Make sure you can talk about your
experiences, like bring up your
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internships, bring up your experiences
within the livestock realm, within
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pet care, dairy, cattle, equine.
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Bring all those experiences up to us
because then we can help fit where
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you're going to work best in the company.
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But I would say first impressions
matter, and that's what helps you
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get an interview the next day.
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Kailee Cooper: So going off of that,
what makes a student go from just
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another student at the career fair to
one that you really want to interview and
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talk to about a potential job opening?
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Payton: Absolutely.
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With me being on the sales side and my
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the sales side, a couple things that we
look for is, uh, like I mentioned, firm
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handshake, eye contact, but having a
personality that you can go with the flow.
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side is talking with people,
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but you have to be able to put
yourself in situations to grow.
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Uh, being able to develop those
relationships with clients,
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build trust with clients.
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If you can't give us that kind of
first impression coming up to the
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career fair, then it's going to be a
little bit harder to get an interview.
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Definitely round out an offer to hand your
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Be like, "Here's my resume." No.
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Make sure you're like, "Hey, I have a copy
of my resume if you'd like a way to get in
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tou- in touch with me. Let's stay in, like
let's stay in contact," type of thing.
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Always try and set up a follow-up
with us like, "Hey, when can I look
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forward to hearing from you guys?"
That's something that I think really
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would set kids apart here today.
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Justin Bedel: Awesome.
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Thank you for the great advice for
each of our listeners and, uh, enjoy
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the rest of your time here at Purdue.
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Kailee Cooper: We're here with PIC.
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Gabby: I'm Gabby Beeman.
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Ellie: And I'm Ellie Staggs, and
as Kailee said, we work for PIC.
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We're a swine genetics company.
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So we're located globally but have a
very strong North America presence.
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Um, I work on the sales team, and Gabby
just started, um, in our trainee program.
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So we touch points across swine
genetics as well as nutrition, repro,
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tech service, and male tech service.
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Justin Bedel: Awesome.
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So for students interested in animal
sciences and, uh, swine genetics what
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kinds of career paths can students
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Ellie: Yeah.
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So we have a few different opportunities.
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There are different internship programs.
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You can kind of go into a level above
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So you can, um, dive into our research
opportunities where we're able to
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see how our genetics perform in a
production setting and how we can
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adapt that to better the future.
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So students are able to take
that next level and grow upon
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their production knowledge.
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Kailee Cooper: So that's a
lot of different information.
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So when you guys have a student come
up who you guys are thinking about
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looking into hire, how important is that
internship or job experience when you're
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thinking about doing that hiring process?
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Gabby: Yeah.
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I think internships are really critical
to people being able to figure out
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what they enjoy and also what they
don't enjoy within a career, right?
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So when we're looking at resumes, we're
really looking for just diversity across
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the field and that you got out of your
comfort zone and tried something new and
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also really just grew that self-advocacy
side and just really a self-starter that
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wants to be curious and try new things
and learn things throughout the industry,
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Kailee Cooper: well, thank you guys for
being here, and that's great advice to
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give to the students and our listeners.
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Justin Bedel: Okay, now we are
here with Indiana Farm Bureau.
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Annie: My name is Annie Romine.
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I am the youth engagement
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Justin Bedel: In the spirit of elevator
pitches- … could you give us an
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elevator pitch of Indiana Farm Bureau?
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Annie: Sure.
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Most people when they first hear
Indiana Farm Bureau, they immediately
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think about insurance, and insurance is
really important because we have a lot
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of our members because of insurance.
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But I actually work on
the incorporated side.
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So in a nutshell, Indiana Farm
Bureau Incorporated is all
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about advocacy and education.
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Kailee Cooper: When you are looking at
a student who comes to a career fair,
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what are you looking for in that student?
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Annie: Honestly, I'm looking for a student
that comes in with some confidence.
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In the internship opportunity that I have,
we do a lot of engagement with youth,
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so I need a young adult who is gonna be
excited to interact and engage with youth.
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And if someone in your college age
group can't look excited about the
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opportunities to engage and share
agriculture and education with young
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people, it's gonna be really hard for-
to get those young people excited.
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Justin Bedel: So you find
someone that's very excited
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and interested in Farm Bureau.
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Um, how important are internships
or previous experiences, um, when
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it comes to maybe hiring that,
uh, student as a- an intern?
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Annie: I think for all the internships
that we are present here for today, we
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do need people to have some background
within agriculture, whether that be from
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4H or FFA, some state fair experience.
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On the education side specifically,
someone who's had some lesson
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planning experience is very important.
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And then with policy, that role does need,
um… Usually, that's more of a junior
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level position where they've had some
opportunities, maybe being a page at the,
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at the state house or something like that.
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Justin Bedel: Awesome.
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Thank you very much, and for the wisdom
for, uh, the students and, uh, listeners.
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And again, uh, enjoy
your time here at Purdue.
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Annie: We're here with
John Deere Reynolds.
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Jonah: I'm Jonah Weaver, the sales
manager at Reynolds Farm Equipment.
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We are a five-location John Deere
dealership in Central Indiana.
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We have stores in Muncie,
Fishers, Lebanon, Atlanta,
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and Mooresville, Indiana.
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Justin Bedel: For students that are
interested in ag systems what kind of
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paths can students, pursue, uh, when it
comes to maybe growing into a full-time
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position at Reynolds Farm Equipment?
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Jonah: So at Reynolds, we have the, the
three pillars of parts, service and sales.
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We also have marketing, integrated
solutions, and agronomy.
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So we really have the full umbrella
of what a John Deere dealership
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could offer, where someone could
grow into any one of those positions.
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Kailee Cooper: When students come
up to you at your table at the
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career fair, what are things that
you're looking for in a student when
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they do walk up and give you that
elevator pitch and are talking to you?
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Jonah: Our big thing is we're just
looking for somebody who has the drive
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the passion, the desire to want to do
more, to want to learn more, wants to
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always take the initiative to do the
next step, to do the best that they can.
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That's what we thrive at Reynolds
to do, is always do the right thing
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for our customers, and sometimes
that requires going above and beyond
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and doing whatever it takes, and
that's just what we're looking for
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our intern- interns to do as well.
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Kailee Cooper: Well, thank
you for your insight.
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I'm sure our listeners will love it,
and it's been very insightful in the
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different advice that you've given.
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And thank you for taking
the time to talk to us.
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Jonah: Thank you, guys.
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Kailee Cooper: So we're here
with Merck Animal Health.
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So in the spirit of career fairs, will you
give us your elevator pitch of your title
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in Merck and your company as a whole?
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Sam : Yeah, you bet.
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My name's Sam Aylor.
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I'm a territory manager
on our cattle team.
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I cover Northwest Indiana and the southern
half of Michigan, and I work with cattle
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producers and large animal veterinarians.
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Justin Bedel: For students that are
maybe interested in animal sciences,
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um, and maybe Merck, uh, Animal Health
in general, um, what kind of career
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paths do you have for students, um, as
they maybe work towards the end goal,
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um, working in that, uh, industry?
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Sam : Yeah, you bet.
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So as far as career paths and options
that we offer, we offer a variety of
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sales internships, full-time sales
experiences in both large animal and
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companion animal for full-time as well.
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And within that you also have marketing,
so we do have marketing opportunities
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as well as research and development
and, uh, veterinarian influence as well,
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Kailee Cooper: so when a student
walks up to the career fair,
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obviously they probably have some
nerves, different things going on.
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If you had one piece of advice that you
could give to them, what would that be?
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Sam : Yeah.
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So I think when talking to students at the
career fair, one of the biggest things is
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feel confident in telling your story and
what sets you apart from your experiences,
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and have great questions for us.
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Really enjoy the back and forth
conversation with students who want to
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learn more about Merck Animal Health.
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Justin Bedel: Awesome.
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Thank you for the fantastic
advice, and, uh, enjoy the rest
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of your time here at Purdue.
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Sam : Thank you.
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Justin Bedel: All right, we're lucky
to be joined by Keystone Cooperative,
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Keystone Speaker 1: keystone
Cooperative is a farmer-owned
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cooperative uh, our profits go right
back into all the local communities.
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Um, we offer things in, uh, feed,
livestock, and grain, as well as
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agronomy, and there's energy as well
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Kailee Cooper: When you are talking to
students and obviously you have your
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different divisions that you're looking
at, what kind of different career
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paths can students that are interested
in things like that, what can they
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go into to grow into your company?
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Keystone Speaker 1: Yeah.
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So depending on what they're,
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a little bit of everything.
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really about, , for us, it's mostly pigs
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that we do as far as the livestock piece.
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There's also feed roles, so we make
feed for pig farms, and then up at
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Michigan we also actually do some for
turkey, emu, um, cows, things like that.
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We also do agronomy, so agronomy can,
a variety of positions from there.
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Everything from applicator
up into management, um,
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agronomists things like that.
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And then energy is
really more like drivers.
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So it might not be people with a college
degree, but it's people who get their
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CDL, but it could also be management
roles as well, and then sales roles, for
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all of those things I would say is also.
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Justin Bedel: So for students that
are just super excited and maybe want
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to maybe venture into an opportunity
at Keystone Cooperative or maybe just
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nervous about the career fair in general,
uh, what's one piece of advice that
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maybe you'd give to them, , as they
maybe prepare for the, the career fair?
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I would say one piece of advice for
students who may be a little bit
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nervous, just be open and be confident.
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Come have a conversation with us.
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That's, there's no guarantees,
you're not signing any commitments
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or anything, but just come talk
to us about our opportunities.
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As you've heard, we have quite a few.
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And just again, being open and
confident is the best way to at
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least start a conversation and
potentially open a door of opportunity.
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Justin Bedel: Thank you very much
for the wisdom for, the students here
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at the career fair and, enjoy the
rest of your time here at Purdue.
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Thank you.
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Kailee Cooper: We
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Justin Bedel: are luckily joined
here today by Consolidated Grain and
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Bargee, and in the spirit of career
fairs, can you give us your elevator
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pitch and a little bit about you guys?
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Derek: Yeah, absolutely.
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Thanks for coming to our booth here.
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Again, we're Consolidated
Grain and Bargee.
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My name's Derek Oliver.
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I am the general manager for the
Ohio Valley West region of CGB.
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CGB is a grain handling company, so
what we do is we basically buy the
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grain from farmers, and then we use
our logistics, our network, to move
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that grain to the end user, primarily
on the inland waterways, but we also
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operate on rail lines trucking, ethanol
plants, really any different avenue
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of, uh, markets that we can execute on.
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Here at CGB, we're looking for grain
leadership trainee roles and we are happy
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to be here for, uh, Purdue Career Fair.
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Appreciate it.
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Justin Bedel: So for students that
are maybe interested in ag business
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or grain merchandising in general,
uh, what kind of a career paths can
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they maybe take to, uh, maybe join
the CGB team, uh, in the future?
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CGB Speaker 3: Yeah.
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So I think Mr. Derek answered that
a little bit with his discussion
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about the grain leadership
trainee is our introductory role
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with Consolidated Grain & Barge.
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a year, year and a half comprehensive
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program where we have the student
work specifically with the origination
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department for about six months,
learning the ins and outs of that skill.
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Then we transition them into an
operational role where they're embedded
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with the outside crew, learning
the actual hands-on, boots on the
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ground aspects of running a facility.
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little bit of trading and a little bit
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of accounting, so when they get to the
end of the training program, they've
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kinda got a nice diverse portfolio
experience of all those different pillars
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that we have to offer the company.
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Kailee Cooper: So you guys obviously
have seen a lot of students today, and
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probably will continue to see a few more.
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So when students are coming up to
the career fair at your booth, what
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are you looking for in a student?
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CGB Speaker 2: We are looking for students
that have had, say, internships in
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different aspects of agriculture either
agronomy or equipment or with another
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grain company, and that are familiar
with, uh, what we do on a daily basis.
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Also, it helps if they have a farm
background, uh, but that's not
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necessarily, um, , a deal breaker or not.
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And then just folks that are eager and,
exploratory and open to move and relocate
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across the country to see different
things and, uh, be a part of CGB 'cause
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we're, uh, rural and in the metro.
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Kailee Cooper: Well, thank you so much for
these insights and advice for students.
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It's been very helpful,
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CGB Speaker 2: yeah.
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Thank you very much.
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Justin Bedel: Well, that was quite
a wide array of perspectives and
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companies a- at the career fair.
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Uh, certainly a lot of
opportunity to, uh, learn there.
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So speaking of learning things,
is there one thing that kind
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of stood out to you, Kailee?
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Kailee Cooper: I feel like through
all the different companies, and like
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you said, there was a wide array of
different job career paths that you
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could go into with the companies
we were able to interview today.
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But I think the biggest thing that stood
out to me is everybody wants somebody who
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is not only looking to grow, but also open
and willing to learn and continue to work
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hard, whether that's through an internship
or an actual full-time career opportunity.
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But I think that's what really stood
out to me and was something that
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I'll definitely take away from this.
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What about you?
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Justin Bedel: There's one thing
that really kind of stood out to me
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from everything that we heard, and
just being confident and just being
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yourself as you go around to each
company and, uh, hopefully that kind
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of leads to a great opportunity.
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Um, especially if you get
the ball rolling, uh, with
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someone that you talk to.
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It was a great opportunity and, uh, great
to hear from each of the companies there.
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Kailee Cooper: Yeah.
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We're very thankful for everybody
who took the time to talk to us on
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the day of the career fair and give
a bunch of advice for our listeners
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and we hope that you guys enjoyed.
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You have been listening to the
Purdue Agriculture Economics Podcast.
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You can find us on Spotify,
Apple Podcasts, and Podbean.
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Have a good day.
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Reese: Last year was my time at the
career fair, and, um, I remember being
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on the opposite end of things, being
super nervous to walk in and talk to
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some of these big branded companies.
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Justin Bedel: Welcome back to the
Purdue Agricultural Economics Podcast.
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My name is Justin Bedel, and I'm
a junior studying agronomy and ag
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business, and today I'm joined by the
other fellow student co-host, Kailee.
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How are you doing?
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Kailee Cooper: I'm good.
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It's exciting to be on for the first time
together and working together this year.
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Justin Bedel: Yeah.
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We have fall break coming up next week.
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Any big plans?
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Kailee Cooper: I'm actually going to
Kansas City for a show , so I'm really
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excited to get to go out there and show
some pigs . Anything exciting for you?
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Justin Bedel: Yeah, I'm gonna be going
home and, , hanging out on the farm and,
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hopefully see some harvest in action.
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It's a, it's an exciting
time of year for sure.
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It'll be fun to get off
campus for a few days.
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Kailee Cooper: Speaking of exciting, we've
had a lot of exciting things coming up,
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but I think today's episode is going to be
a special one, and I guess our word today
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is exciting, but I think that could be
used too to describe this episode because
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we're actually going to the College of
Ag Career Fair and interviewing different
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employees to figure out things that
they're looking for at the career fair and
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why they're actually joining us at Purdue.
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So it should be a special episode,
different than what we normally do, but
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we, as we have said, are very excited
to get to have you guys listen along.
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Justin Bedel: Yeah.
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So it'll be a great time to, , hear the
opportunities that each company has and,
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uh, maybe a little bit of advice for,
how to be successful at the career fair.
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Hopefully you'll all
enjoy and, , here we go.
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Okay, welcome here.
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I'm joined by Grant Goodeman
with Advanced Agrilytics.
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All right, in the spirit of elevator
pitches here at the career fair, give
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us Advanced Agrilytics elevator pitch.
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Grant: Okay, you guys are supposed
to be the one elevator pitching us.
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But hey, here's Advanced Agrilytics.,
We're an agronomy company that's super
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passionate about a lot of things, but
to kind of boil it down, one thing, or a
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lot of things that we focus on is we're
super passionate about helping growers
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with being hyper efficient with every
input dollar that, that goes out the door.
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Because we know that it's expensive
to put a corn crop out, it's
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expensive to put a bean crop out.
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But when we can focus on the spatial
aspect of precision ag, and we're
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identifying environments within the field
and identifying every acre differently,
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we're very aggressive in how we
reallocate inputs on a grower's operation.
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Because growers have to be super
efficient today, but at the same time, we
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cannot be leaving bushels on the table.
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We're all in the bushel raisin business,
so we have to continue to produce, and
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we can't leave bushels o- on the table.
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Justin Bedel: For, uh, students that
are maybe interested in, getting into a
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career helping farmers be more profitable
and, you know, maximizing those inputs
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they put on every acre you know, what
kind of paths can students, follow to,
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uh, maybe join Advanced Agrilytics?
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Grant: Yeah.
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So with Advanced Agrilytics, we have
We have multiple divisions, but one
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of the divisions is our agronomy,
our, our pro services division.
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But then we also have our research,
where we just do third-party research.
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So when you look at the pro services
or the grower direct route we would
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have a position called a precision
ag specialist, and what a precision
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ag specialist does is they are linked
up with a precision agronomist.
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Precision agronomist is the on-farm
agronomist, but , they also can't… It's
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harder for them to do their job without
a precision ag specialist to help with
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data entry, to help with soil sampling,
to help with grower conversations, to
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help with scouting in the summertime.
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So that's a great position for college
graduates, undergraduate graduates
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to jump in to our organization in
that precision ag specialist role.
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And that role it's designed to basically
learn under an agronomist for it could
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be one year, it could be two years, it
could be three years, could be 10 years.
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But eventually what we're gonna want that
precision ag specialist to do is start
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to build their own network and build
their own pipeline for opportunities
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that one day when they're ready to go
out on their own, they can start getting
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growers under their umbrella that they
can start working with before they would
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transition to a precision agronomist.
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Justin Bedel: So for students like
Kailee and myself, how do we become
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someone just at the career fair as
someone that you're wanting to interview
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for maybe those field specialist
internships or maybe even research?
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Grant: Yeah, that's a good question.
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Always do your research.
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Know a little bit about the
company that you're talking to
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before approaching that booth.
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And come prepared with good questions.
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Ask what the internship looks like, ask
what the day-to-days look like because
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we're gonna have questions for you, but
it's always better when it's a, when
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it's a back and forth conversation.
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Not that you have to have an encyclopedia
of questions, but just have four
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to five questions that you can ask
that you can get the company en-
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engaged in a conversation with you.
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And whatever your interest level is as
far as relocating, just be very clear,
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be very concise about, you know, "I
prefer to be in this area, or prefer
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to be in that area," or, "You can send
me wherever you want." So kind of be
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prepared to kind of know what you're
looking for as far as job responsibilities
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and duties, but also, like, "I'm
will- I'm willing to pick up for three
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months and go where you need me to go."
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Awesome.
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Thank you, Grant, and enjoy the rest
of your time here at Purdue University.
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Thank you.
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We're glad you came to visit.
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Kailee Cooper: I'm here with Beck's.
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Tanner: My name's Tanner Maxey.
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I sit in a talent acquisition
role for Beck's Hybrids.
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I'll handle the hiring and recruitment.
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But, uh, Beck's is the largest
family-owned retail seed
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company in the United States.
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We're based out of Atlanta,
Indiana, which is, um, just about
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50 minutes north of Indianapolis.
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Basically what we do is we sell
seed, and we help farmers succeed
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by all the product offerings that
go with that, that seed sale.
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Kailee Cooper: So Beck's is a
very, , widely known company in the ag
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industry I feel like, and just being
at the College of Ag Career Fair.
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Um, but what are you guys looking for in a
student when you guys come to these career
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fairs interacting with other people?
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Tanner: Great question.
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I would say, honestly, it's pretty
simple for us here at Beck's.
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We are one of, what I hear,
is few organizations that will
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consider freshmen as well.
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And the reason for that is, like, we don't
expect interns to have all the experience.
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Like, that's why it's
called an internship.
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For us, we really look for two things.
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It's a positive attitude
and a strong work ethic.
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If you can show up, we can teach
you everything you need to know.
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But you need to show up every day and
be positive about why you're there.
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Kailee Cooper: Well, as students,
we're very grateful for the, uh,
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opportunity as an intern freshman year.
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But if a student walks up to your booth,
what one piece of advice would you
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give to them before they would walk up?
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Tanner: I think you really did it with
the first question you asked me, and
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that is the elevator pitch is pretty key.
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Uh, we look for students that are
prepared, that know their talking points.
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So do your research prior come
with questions to ask, and don't
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be afraid to introduce who you are.
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That's- that sets the
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Kailee Cooper: Well, awesome.
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Thank you, and thank you for
being here and giving these
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opportunities to these students.
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We really appreciate it, and
we're glad you're here today.
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Tanner: Yeah.
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Thank you very much.
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Justin Bedel: Okay.
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We're luckily to be joined by Bayer,
and, um, I guess to start off here, in
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the spirit of elevator pitches, could
you give us Bayer's elevator pitch?
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Madisen: So I'm Madisen Stephens.
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I'm a Bayer field sales rep trainee,
currently located in Northern Kentucky.
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Reese: I'm Reese Roland, and I am also
a trainee, and I'm in Northeast Indiana.
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Madisen: So the Bayer elevator pitch.
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Looking big-scale Bayer has three
segments to it: crop science,
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pharmaceuticals, and then consumer health.
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here today are primarily on the
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crop science aspect of Bayer.
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We have some really recognizable brands
when you think of Bayer: DEKALB, Asgrow,
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Channel, and then our crop protection.
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When we look at Bayer as a whole,
we have everything from salespeople
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to research and development.
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We actually are a company that
is investing the most in our
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research and development out
of our competitors currently.
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Kailee Cooper: When you guys are at
the career fair and you see a student,
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what makes a student go from just
another student who's at the career
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fair to somebody who you want to
interview and potentially hire when
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you're looking at these aspects?
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Madisen: Yeah.
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and they come up, shake your hand, the
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energy they bring into the conversation.
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We want someone who's excited, who knows
what they want or the direction that
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they're kind of looking to go into.
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We're just normal people.
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We're excited to talk to you, and we
want to find you the best fit, whether
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it's with our company or directing
you in a place where you're going to
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be really happy with a future career.
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So if someone wants to come up and is
super interested in Bayer and wants
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to be an intern, what's one piece
of advice that you would give them?
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Reese: Last year was my time at the
career fair, and, um, I remember being
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on the opposite end of things, being
super nervous to walk in and talk to
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some of these big branded companies.
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Um, my biggest piece of advice
is just to take a deep breath.
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Like Madison said, it is scary, but at
the end of the day, we're all people,
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and everyone that's in here is trying to
look for a job to develop their career
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further, whether that's an internship
or whether that's a full-time career.
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So taking a deep breath, and as cliché
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Kailee Cooper: Those are some great
pieces of advice and different
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things that you've shared.
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So thank you for being here today
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And thank you for coming back to Purdue.
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So we're here with Zoetis.
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Payton: My name's Peyton Hines.
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I currently work for
Zoetis on the pork side.
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I actually initially started on the
pet care side, made that transition
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about two years ago to pork.
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Uh, we sell animal pharmaceuticals, uh,
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is Indiana, Kentucky, Michigan, and Ohio.
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So do a lot of travel with
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That's a big territory to travel across.
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I'm not home every night, that's for sure.
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Justin Bedel: Okay.
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So, to start off here, if you could
give students one piece of advice when
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Payton: I would definitely
say first impressions matter.
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Uh, make sure you come up, firm
handshake, look them in the eye.
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The last thing I want you to
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Uh, let's talk a little bit.
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Maybe if you've c- have done a little
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a little bit of research on me, I
think that helps us have a better
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one-on-one conversation to start with.
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Definitely have questions to ask us.
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You need to come in and kind
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flip the role a little bit.
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experiences, like bring up your
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internships, bring up your experiences
within the livestock realm, within
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pet care, dairy, cattle, equine.
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Bring all those experiences up to us
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you're going to work best in the company.
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But I would say first impressions
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get an interview the next day.
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Kailee Cooper: So going off of that,
what makes a student go from just
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another student at the career fair to
one that you really want to interview and
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talk to about a potential job opening?
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Payton: Absolutely.
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the sales side, a couple things that we
look for is, uh, like I mentioned, firm
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handshake, eye contact, but having a
personality that you can go with the flow.
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but you have to be able to put
yourself in situations to grow.
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relationships with clients,
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build trust with clients.
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If you can't give us that kind of
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career fair, then it's going to be a
little bit harder to get an interview.
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Be like, "Here's my resume." No.
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Make sure you're like, "Hey, I have a copy
of my resume if you'd like a way to get in
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tou- in touch with me. Let's stay in, like
let's stay in contact," type of thing.
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Always try and set up a follow-up
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forward to hearing from you guys?"
That's something that I think really
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would set kids apart here today.
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Justin Bedel: Awesome.
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Thank you for the great advice for
each of our listeners and, uh, enjoy
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the rest of your time here at Purdue.
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Kailee Cooper: We're here with PIC.
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Gabby: I'm Gabby Beeman.
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Ellie: And I'm Ellie Staggs, and
as Kailee said, we work for PIC.
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We're a swine genetics company.
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So we're located globally but have a
very strong North America presence.
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Um, I work on the sales team, and Gabby
just started, um, in our trainee program.
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So we touch points across swine
genetics as well as nutrition, repro,
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tech service, and male tech service.
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Justin Bedel: Awesome.
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So for students interested in animal
sciences and, uh, swine genetics what
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kinds of career paths can students
kinda grow into at your company?
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Ellie: Yeah.
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So we have a few different opportunities.
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There are different internship programs.
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You can kind of go into a level above
just your basic production experience.
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So you can, um, dive into our research
opportunities where we're able to
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see how our genetics perform in a
production setting and how we can
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adapt that to better the future.
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that next level and grow upon
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their production knowledge.
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Kailee Cooper: So that's a
lot of different information.
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So when you guys have a student come
up who you guys are thinking about
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looking into hire, how important is that
internship or job experience when you're
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thinking about doing that hiring process?
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Gabby: Yeah.
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I think internships are really critical
to people being able to figure out
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what they enjoy and also what they
don't enjoy within a career, right?
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So when we're looking at resumes, we're
really looking for just diversity across
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the field and that you got out of your
comfort zone and tried something new and
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also really just grew that self-advocacy
side and just really a self-starter that
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wants to be curious and try new things
and learn things throughout the industry,
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Kailee Cooper: well, thank you guys for
being here, and that's great advice to
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give to the students and our listeners.
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Justin Bedel: Okay, now we are
here with Indiana Farm Bureau.
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Annie: My name is Annie Romine.
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I am the youth engagement
coordinator for Indiana Farm Bureau.
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Justin Bedel: In the spirit of elevator
pitches- … could you give us an
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elevator pitch of Indiana Farm Bureau?
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Annie: Sure.
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Most people when they first hear
Indiana Farm Bureau, they immediately
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think about insurance, and insurance is
really important because we have a lot
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of our members because of insurance.
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But I actually work on
the incorporated side.
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So in a nutshell, Indiana Farm
Bureau Incorporated is all
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about advocacy and education.
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Kailee Cooper: When you are looking at
a student who comes to a career fair,
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what are you looking for in that student?
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Annie: Honestly, I'm looking for a student
that comes in with some confidence.
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In the internship opportunity that I have,
we do a lot of engagement with youth,
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so I need a young adult who is gonna be
excited to interact and engage with youth.
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And if someone in your college age
group can't look excited about the
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opportunities to engage and share
agriculture and education with young
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people, it's gonna be really hard for-
to get those young people excited.
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someone that's very excited
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and interested in Farm Bureau.
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or previous experiences, um, when
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it comes to maybe hiring that,
uh, student as a- an intern?
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Annie: I think for all the internships
that we are present here for today, we
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do need people to have some background
within agriculture, whether that be from
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4H or FFA, some state fair experience.
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On the education side specifically,
someone who's had some lesson
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planning experience is very important.
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And then with policy, that role does need,
um… Usually, that's more of a junior
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level position where they've had some
opportunities, maybe being a page at the,
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at the state house or something like that.
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Justin Bedel: Awesome.
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Thank you very much, and for the wisdom
for, uh, the students and, uh, listeners.
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And again, uh, enjoy
your time here at Purdue.
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Annie: We're here with
John Deere Reynolds.
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Jonah: I'm Jonah Weaver, the sales
manager at Reynolds Farm Equipment.
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We are a five-location John Deere
dealership in Central Indiana.
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We have stores in Muncie,
Fishers, Lebanon, Atlanta,
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Justin Bedel: For students that are
interested in ag systems what kind of
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paths can students, pursue, uh, when it
comes to maybe growing into a full-time
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position at Reynolds Farm Equipment?
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Jonah: So at Reynolds, we have the, the
three pillars of parts, service and sales.
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We also have marketing, integrated
solutions, and agronomy.
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So we really have the full umbrella
of what a John Deere dealership
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could offer, where someone could
grow into any one of those positions.
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Kailee Cooper: When students come
up to you at your table at the
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career fair, what are things that
you're looking for in a student when
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they do walk up and give you that
elevator pitch and are talking to you?
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Jonah: Our big thing is we're just
looking for somebody who has the drive
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the passion, the desire to want to do
more, to want to learn more, wants to
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always take the initiative to do the
next step, to do the best that they can.
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That's what we thrive at Reynolds
to do, is always do the right thing
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for our customers, and sometimes
that requires going above and beyond
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and doing whatever it takes, and
that's just what we're looking for
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our intern- interns to do as well.
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Kailee Cooper: Well, thank
you for your insight.
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I'm sure our listeners will love it,
and it's been very insightful in the
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different advice that you've given.
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And thank you for taking
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Jonah: Thank you, guys.
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Kailee Cooper: So we're here
with Merck Animal Health.
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So in the spirit of career fairs, will you
give us your elevator pitch of your title
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in Merck and your company as a whole?
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Sam : Yeah, you bet.
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My name's Sam Aylor.
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I'm a territory manager
on our cattle team.
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I cover Northwest Indiana and the southern
half of Michigan, and I work with cattle
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producers and large animal veterinarians.
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Justin Bedel: For students that are
maybe interested in animal sciences,
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um, and maybe Merck, uh, Animal Health
in general, um, what kind of career
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paths do you have for students, um, as
they maybe work towards the end goal,
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um, working in that, uh, industry?
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So as far as career paths and options
that we offer, we offer a variety of
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sales internships, full-time sales
experiences in both large animal and
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companion animal for full-time as well.
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And within that you also have marketing,
so we do have marketing opportunities
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as well as research and development
and, uh, veterinarian influence as well,
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Kailee Cooper: so when a student
walks up to the career fair,
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obviously they probably have some
nerves, different things going on.
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If you had one piece of advice that you
could give to them, what would that be?
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Sam : Yeah.
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So I think when talking to students at the
career fair, one of the biggest things is
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feel confident in telling your story and
what sets you apart from your experiences,
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and have great questions for us.
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Really enjoy the back and forth
conversation with students who want to
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learn more about Merck Animal Health.
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Justin Bedel: Awesome.
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Thank you for the fantastic
advice, and, uh, enjoy the rest
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of your time here at Purdue.
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Sam : Thank you.
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Justin Bedel: All right, we're lucky
to be joined by Keystone Cooperative,
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Keystone Speaker 1: keystone
Cooperative is a farmer-owned
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cooperative uh, our profits go right
back into all the local communities.
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livestock, and grain, as well as
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agronomy, and there's energy as well
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Kailee Cooper: When you are talking to
students and obviously you have your
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different divisions that you're looking
at, what kind of different career
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paths can students that are interested
in things like that, what can they
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go into to grow into your company?
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So depending on what they're,
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feed for pig farms, and then up at
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Michigan we also actually do some for
turkey, emu, um, cows, things like that.
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a variety of positions from there.
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agronomists things like that.
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really more like drivers.
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So it might not be people with a college
degree, but it's people who get their
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CDL, but it could also be management
roles as well, and then sales roles, for
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all of those things I would say is also.
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are just super excited and maybe want
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to maybe venture into an opportunity
at Keystone Cooperative or maybe just
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nervous about the career fair in general,
uh, what's one piece of advice that
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maybe prepare for the, the career fair?
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nervous, just be open and be confident.
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Come have a conversation with us.
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That's, there's no guarantees,
you're not signing any commitments
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or anything, but just come talk
to us about our opportunities.
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As you've heard, we have quite a few.
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And just again, being open and
confident is the best way to at
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least start a conversation and
potentially open a door of opportunity.
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Justin Bedel: Thank you very much
for the wisdom for, the students here
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at the career fair and, enjoy the
rest of your time here at Purdue.
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Thank you.
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Kailee Cooper: We
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Justin Bedel: are luckily joined
here today by Consolidated Grain and
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Bargee, and in the spirit of career
fairs, can you give us your elevator
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pitch and a little bit about you guys?
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Derek: Yeah, absolutely.
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Thanks for coming to our booth here.
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Again, we're Consolidated
Grain and Bargee.
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My name's Derek Oliver.
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I am the general manager for the
Ohio Valley West region of CGB.
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CGB is a grain handling company, so
what we do is we basically buy the
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grain from farmers, and then we use
our logistics, our network, to move
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that grain to the end user, primarily
on the inland waterways, but we also
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operate on rail lines trucking, ethanol
plants, really any different avenue
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of, uh, markets that we can execute on.
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Here at CGB, we're looking for grain
leadership trainee roles and we are happy
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to be here for, uh, Purdue Career Fair.
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Appreciate it.
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Justin Bedel: So for students that
are maybe interested in ag business
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or grain merchandising in general,
uh, what kind of a career paths can
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they maybe take to, uh, maybe join
the CGB team, uh, in the future?
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CGB Speaker 3: Yeah.
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So I think Mr. Derek answered that
a little bit with his discussion
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about the grain leadership
trainee is our introductory role
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with Consolidated Grain & Barge.
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Uh, within that program, it's about
a year, year and a half comprehensive
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program where we have the student
work specifically with the origination
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department for about six months,
learning the ins and outs of that skill.
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Then we transition them into an
operational role where they're embedded
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with the outside crew, learning
the actual hands-on, boots on the
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ground aspects of running a facility.
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And then also in there, we throw in a
little bit of trading and a little bit
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of accounting, so when they get to the
end of the training program, they've
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kinda got a nice diverse portfolio
experience of all those different pillars
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that we have to offer the company.
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Kailee Cooper: So you guys obviously
have seen a lot of students today, and
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probably will continue to see a few more.
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So when students are coming up to
the career fair at your booth, what
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are you looking for in a student?
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CGB Speaker 2: We are looking for students
that have had, say, internships in
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different aspects of agriculture either
agronomy or equipment or with another
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grain company, and that are familiar
with, uh, what we do on a daily basis.
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Also, it helps if they have a farm
background, uh, but that's not
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necessarily, um, , a deal breaker or not.
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And then just folks that are eager and,
exploratory and open to move and relocate
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across the country to see different
things and, uh, be a part of CGB 'cause
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we're, uh, rural and in the metro.
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Kailee Cooper: Well, thank you so much for
these insights and advice for students.
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It's been very helpful,
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CGB Speaker 2: yeah.
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Thank you very much.
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Justin Bedel: Well, that was quite
a wide array of perspectives and
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companies a- at the career fair.
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Uh, certainly a lot of
opportunity to, uh, learn there.
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So speaking of learning things,
is there one thing that kind
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of stood out to you, Kailee?
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Kailee Cooper: I feel like through
all the different companies, and like
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you said, there was a wide array of
different job career paths that you
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could go into with the companies
we were able to interview today.
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But I think the biggest thing that stood
out to me is everybody wants somebody who
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is not only looking to grow, but also open
and willing to learn and continue to work
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hard, whether that's through an internship
or an actual full-time career opportunity.
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But I think that's what really stood
out to me and was something that
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I'll definitely take away from this.
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What about you?
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Justin Bedel: There's one thing
that really kind of stood out to me
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from everything that we heard, and
just being confident and just being
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yourself as you go around to each
company and, uh, hopefully that kind
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of leads to a great opportunity.
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Um, especially if you get
the ball rolling, uh, with
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someone that you talk to.
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It was a great opportunity and, uh, great
to hear from each of the companies there.
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Kailee Cooper: Yeah.
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We're very thankful for everybody
who took the time to talk to us on
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the day of the career fair and give
a bunch of advice for our listeners
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and we hope that you guys enjoyed.
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You have been listening to the
Purdue Agriculture Economics Podcast.
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You can find us on Spotify,
Apple Podcasts, and Podbean.
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Have a good day.
