I am a senior at Illinois State University and I am a Fashion Merchandising major with a minor in Business Administration.

My career goals are to eventually own my own successful clothing store. When I graduate I am hoping to work in a successful and established company while I grow my boutique on the side until I can grow my business enough to run it on my own. I have prepared for that success by working in the retail industry since I was seventeen years old. I worked at PetSmart for a little over two years where I worked on many of their displays in the store I worked at and I also planned many of their “customer events”. While this is not a clothing store it did help prepare me in having a better understanding of how to make things more visually appeal to the customer more. When planning the events I was given very limited supplies to make the events successful and I had to learn with my even more limited budget what to make work to create our customer events. I also interned at Royal and Reese which helped prepare me in my knowledge of customer service and also understanding trends to understand how best to sell to a customer on an online platform. There I learned about online visual merchandising and how making websites and photos for the website more visually appealing is essential to creating a successful online presence as a store.

My goal for this blog is to display my portfolio for my future careers as a way to document the work I have completed in college and after college. I want to use it to frequently update where I am at with my career and what kind of bounds in my success I am making.

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