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My name is Kia Jones.

I am a communication major and I'm a junior.

I work at the Career Development Center and so what I do is - I'm a student worker and

I help students when they come in and they need help with their resumes, when they need

help with cover letters, when they need help looking for jobs, applying for jobs.

Just anything really career related I can help them with.

So you said you were kind of using this resume for internships and stuff?

I've been working here for over a year now and I enjoy it because I really like the interaction

aspect.

I really enjoy helping people.

I've actually had a couple of students who have come up to me after they came in.

I've gotten their resume like checked and stuff and said 'remember that job I applied

for' and I'll be like 'yeah' and they'll be like 'I got it' and I'll be like 'oh great'!

Just seeing them kind of furthering their careers and achieving their goals is really

fulfilling for me because I know I wouldn't be able to have gotten where I am without help.

Just seeing that I helped them as well is really just kind of nice.

I recently won the Students Affairs Employee of the Month award and I was kind of surprised

by it, but I was more pleasantly surprised.

It really just kind of symbolizes student workers really who kind of go above and beyond

in terms of their like job experiences and just in terms of working in the office, like

students who aren't just - you know - working, but who are actually trying to actively improve

not only the office, but the students that they assist as well.

I'm currently a member of the Black Student Union (BSU) and we're preparing for our Black

History Month events, so we have a couple of things planned for February that I'm really

excited about and then I'm also a CAP student, so I'm a student in the Honors Program, so

I take different honors classes.

UIS has taught me that anyone can be a leader.

I was a person who I didn't mind necessarily being a leader, but I also kind of stepped

back and let other people take the lead.

So I'm like, 'oh they can handle that.'

This isn't a thing for me.

But what it's taught me is that if you want to you can take that leadership role and a

leader doesn't look like - there's no cookie cutter person that looks like a leader.

I'm a firm believer that things happen for a reason.

So I came here for a reason.

I ended up being who I am right now for a reason.

I am close to being that person who I have always wanted to be, so just the growth that

I've received from being at UIS - I don't think I would have been able to get that growth

anywhere else.