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Sometimes you just don\u2019t know what you want because you don\u2019t know that it exists. \u00a0Somehow, Challenge Detroit knew what I wanted.<\/p>\n
Without knowing anything about the company or the job, during my interview trip with Challenge Detroit, I was assigned to interview with Compuware Corporation, an IT performance company. That opportunity to interview with Compuware was a career turning point for me. If you look at my resume, filled with service-learning, mentoring, tutoring, activism, and psychology, you would be as confused as I was about why on Earth I was selected to interview for a job in a technology company. To my surprise, my interview with this strange tech corporation consisted of me talking about issues like education, violence against women, diversity and human rights. At this point, I was surprised. I didn\u2019t know why Compuware cared about all my favorite things to talk about, but I didn\u2019t give it too much thought and just enjoyed the ride. Finally, as the interview was almost over, I was told that the Challenge Detroit Fellow would work in Compuware\u2019s Culture, Community and Diversity department. Tanya Heidelberg-Yopp, SVP of this new department, described her vision for the department as an opportunity to redefine corporate engagement with communities and to create a model for moving beyond just monetary contributions. At that moment I\u2019m fairly certain that my jaw literally dropped and I couldn\u2019t speak coherently because I felt like a giddy child.<\/p>\n
In the end, Compuware offered me a\u00a0position as their Culture, Community, and Diversity\u00a0Specialist and I easily accepted the dream job that I didn\u2019t know existed. After almost four months of work I am still inspired on a daily basis because I have a voice that is heard, I am surrounded by\u00a0colleagues who are extremely talented and creative, and because I get to participate in meaningful work. A year ago I would have never imagined myself working for a corporation, but today, thanks to Challenge Detroit, I have an unexpected dream job!<\/a> (Picture: Compuware employees volunteering for Project: Welcome Home, our partnership with Habitat for Humanity)<\/em><\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Sometimes you just don\u2019t know what you want because you don\u2019t know that it exists. \u00a0Somehow, Challenge Detroit knew what I wanted. Without knowing anything about the company or the job, during my interview trip with Challenge Detroit, I was assigned to interview with Compuware Corporation, an IT performance company. That opportunity to interview with […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":237,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12461","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/challengedetroit.builtrare.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12461","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/challengedetroit.builtrare.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/challengedetroit.builtrare.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/challengedetroit.builtrare.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/237"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/challengedetroit.builtrare.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12461"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/challengedetroit.builtrare.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12461\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/challengedetroit.builtrare.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12461"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/challengedetroit.builtrare.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12461"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/challengedetroit.builtrare.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12461"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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