901 Advizers
Gerta
Founder
YourNegotiations.com
Wellesley College
MIT
http://www.linkedin.com/in/gertamalaj
Q1Career path
Data Analysis
Negotiation
Career Development
11:39
"It was such a dream to work there."
Q2Main responsibilities
Entrepreneurship
Instructional Design
Negotiation
1:31
"I'm the negotiations expert. So I talk to our clients, I come up with content, so we have, we do one-on-one work with clients, for job offers and for business contracts."
Q3Day in the life
Client Communication
Negotiation
Entrepreneurship
4:00
"And so you need to recommit to it every day and, and, um, and remember what you're working on, what you need to focus on."
Q4Most important skills - role
Decision-Making
Negotiation
Prioritization
2:20
"You do the 20% of the things on your to-do list that are giving you 80% of the result."
Q5Favorite parts - role
Problem-Solving
Entrepreneurship
Negotiation
2:44
"I don't think a lot of people realize how much creativity goes into a startup. ...that type of creativity is so rewarding to me."
Q6Biggest challenge - role
Entrepreneurship
Startups
Scaling a Business
1:54
"How do we get to a six, seven figure business?"
Q7Favorite parts - industry
Negotiation
Startups
Entrepreneurship
2:10
"In startups, you're just thrown into it and you have to figure it all out on your own, which is stressful. But on the other hand, you can use your own inspiration to solve things without necessarily relying on how other people have done it."
Q8Who thrives in industry
Resourceful
Hustler
Flexible
2:04
"The first word that comes to mind is resourceful"
Q9Wish known before - industry
Co-founder Relationships
Entrepreneurship
Business Scaling
3:28
"It's usually a childhood friend, a college roommate, a best friend from before. It's almost never some person you met at a networking event."
Q10Entry-level positions
Project Management
Teamwork
Entrepreneurship
1:59
"I recommend college students consider taking an entrepreneurship course, especially one that might be very hands-on."
Q11Significant lesson - career
Negotiation
Career Exploration
Career Development
2:37
"How you figure that out is you just start somewhere."
Q12College ideas for success
Problem-Solving
Negotiation
STEM
2:48
"STEM education helps you think of first principles. Your thinking is deduced from things that are as true as possible."
Q13How identity impacted career
Overcoming Challenges
Entrepreneurship
Negotiation
2:56
"I would recommend learn as much as possible, uh, to, uh, learn how things work, uh, and, and learn from locals."

