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I work in, with,
basically information technology department, and it's called IDS.
And I provide legal services to the legal department.
Which includes electronic discovery
and that's where I make sure that I can forensically preserve and collect
electronic information like e-mails, electronic word documents and so forth
and make sure that it can be accepted by court as evidence.
Here at Proctor and Gamble there's a philosophy of,
P&G wants to provide everyone whatever tools or resources
they need to achieve at their peak. And that's how P&G works.
So, you know, they expect anyone that comes in,
they're all unique in their own way. In a variety of ways.
But at the end of the day, P&G likes to say that whatever you need,
whatever you need to help you succeed, that's how we approach it.
And to that extent I don't think of myself as unique,
I just think of myself as: "I need this specific tool.
I need this specific requirement." And if I can get those met,
if those are provided, then I can give you what you're looking for from me.
I think the main reason why P&G hired me was because I wasn't easily rattled.
I think really for any career, it's good to try to find a, to find two fields
and find a way to marry them together, the two of them.
Like right now in ten, twenty, thirty years, you know a lot of people
have the luxury of picking one discipline and they stay with that.
And they've been able to do that, and it's not...
What is, right now people are expected to have multi-disciplines.
Multidisciplinary fields, you know, they're IT, computer science,
they also may have a background in business or foreign language or legal
And so the only way that you can really show that you are versatile
is, you know, I think, that way. And so I think for many companies,
especially global companies, where they hire people,
they wanna see that that person is versatile or flexible, and they can show the ability
to quickly pick up something new in another field and be able to adapt to it.
So for me, as an example, if I became...
If I, like a piece of paper you know? If you look at my resumé on paper,
hopefully you would see that I'm a person with a bachelors degree with information technology,
and that tells you that I understand computers.
And then you see also that I have a law degree,
and that tells you that I understand how to look at things from a risk standpoint.
And how to analyze risk, and how to identify the issues.
So, I think it puts both of them together that I'm able to make good use of that.
So my advice to anyone would be that
don't become too focused on one field,
And if you find something you enjoy, that's great, pursue that.
But at the same time, you know, look for something else that you enjoy to do
and then see if you can bring the two together.