Norberto Rivera
- Senior Regional Recruitment Manager
- City Year
School Information
School: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
College Major: Engineering
Years at College Works: 2011
Career Information
Working For: City Year
Title: Senior Regional Recruitment Manager
Industry: Education
Brief Description of Duties / Responsibilities:
Manage recruitment efforts and activities at 6 Southern California Universities. Managing campus recruitment ambassadors at our top schools in addition to our regional recruitment coordinator. Responsible for driving awareness of our program and increasing the number of qualified applicants annually.
What Has Been Your Proudest Accomplishment Post-CWP?Moving to California and becoming an active member of the Monastery I attend.
College Works Career Impact
In one sentence, what has CW meant to you?
Experience to challenge myself and gain skills I didn’t know I had.
How did your CW experience impact your career? Immediately after graduation? Now?
I was confident enough to leave my major after college and follow something I was passionate about, as I learned from doing College Works Painting. Now I apply my skills of managing, marketing and relationship building daily in my role as a recruiter.
What was the greatest lesson you learned from your CW experience?
Not to give up and keep working. Things can feel horrible and like a failure as you’re going through them but those are the exact experiences that are the most important to growing, developing and becoming a better person.
Advice
What advice do you have for potential CW participants? Current CW participants?
Be ready to work hard, be open to make many, many mistakes, be committed to not giving up and be honest ad truthful.
What’s your favorite memory from CW?
The trip to Cancun after finishing my branch manager year over +$60,000. It was the reality that I achieved the goal I set for myself and that I could achieve something no matter how hard it seemed.
Last words of wisdom?
Everything feels like a failure in the middle, keep going.