Increasing Your Value by Networking for Success and Creating Innovative Solutions

Print Buyer Panel Session: a panel of print buyers will present how they found a new job, received promotions and improved their status in their company and in the print industry by implementing innovative solutions 

Come to this session to learn unique ways that you can promote yourself and protect your job.

One of the panel members, Barbara Carroll, works for the mutual fund division of a very large insurance concern that has their own corporate purchasing division. Up until recently, her career had been specifically focused on print production, traffic and print buying. While she still does some specialty print buying for materials specific to mutual funds, most of the printing she was doing before has gone away since her company was taken over by the new firm.

Barbara saw an opportunity to stay involved and a part of the team when a co-worker who was doing a totally different aspect of the process, specifically compliance coordination, left the firm. She offered to take over those additional job responsibilities since they tied nicely into the scheduling of materials she was still responsible for buying. She learned an entirely new aspect of the business; regulatory and advertising compliance, and in doing so, became somewhat of the expert in process management for the firm. She got to learn new systems and stay involved as regulatory changes took place in the industry. As a result of her efforts, Barbara received another promotion to Multi-Media Specialist and she is now working on the electronic systems that capture compliance review, as well as web site administration for her department's part of the corporate web site. She still gets to do her favorite, print purchasing and production, but there is so much more she can now bring to the table. Barbara solidified not only her job security but also her career advancement by raising her hand and saying "I can do that, too!"