A Day In The LifE... I’m also very active in
initiatives that help increase graduates in
the STEM fields, working with NetApp’s Women in Technology programmes.
I have also been very active with NACE, participating and chairing committees, and sitting on the Board of the Directors. One of my favourite ways of giving back is mentoring other members of NACE, though I always walk away with new and amazing learnings through reverse mentoring opportunities as well. Recently I started a three year journey with NACE as the President-Elect, and then I will move into President and finally Past-President. I look forward to the journey that is ahead of me and hope to meet some of you on my travels.
Dawn Carter
Director of Global University Relations – NetApp; President Elect – National Association of Colleges & Employeers (NACE), US
Relations(UR) at NetApp. The UR teams manage all of our recruitment for interns, co-ops and University Grads along with managing our Intern and University Grad programs. My day starts early with coffee or tea, my laptop open, my cat Angus on my lap, ready to address the first wave of emails that came in overnight from the global teams. I then dash out the door and hit the road early to avoid the traffic in Silicon Valley, arriving at work around 7:30 a.m. This provides me time to keep up with news publications, check out our social media sites and determine if my teams need me to tweet content.
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have always been a natural morning person which is a huge help in my role as the Global Leader for University
A significant part of my day is taken up in various meetings that typically cross multiple business units, GEOs, time zones and complexity of work. Some of my responsibilities are to take on projects outside of my COE (Centre of Excellence) role – these could be related to compliance, diversity and inclusion, or helping our ‘Great Places to Work’ Team with our annual submission.
One of the hardest areas of my job is to manage stakeholder integration and buy-in from some of our countries. It is made difficult when we don’t have UR teams at their direct site or the UR team reports directly to a country manager and possibly that person may have more than just UR as part of the responsibilities. With
these countries I find I have to extend my stakeholder buy-in, set expectations, expand my knowledge of their local requirements and balance the framework of our programs with local requirements.
I’m also very active in initiatives that help increase graduates in the STEM (Science Technology Engineering and Math) fields, working with NetApp’s Women in Technology programmes. This summer I helped design and lead a break session for our Young Women Technology Day on Geo-caching. I partnered with one of our technology leaders to create a scavenger hunt across NetApp headquarters using clues, GPS devices, and teamwork to race for hidden treasure.
I believe a great way to break the day up is to get away from my cube by hosting meetings in other buildings, or getting closer to my stakeholders. I have found by understanding both the requests from the team and combining this with the individual cultural of the team allows me to help create better solutions or programmes for the organisation.
It can be easy to work late and often difficult sometimes to shut work off or stop reading emails as they come in late at night but I make every effort to have family and fun time. One of the things I have learned through my career is to set boundaries, leave work at a reasonable time, go home to enjoy time with my family and friends, and then jump on again in the evening to finish up. This has allowed me to have my version of work-life-balance that works for me. n
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