>>Erik: How did you repurpose your interest
in anthropology to focus on helping others
build careers?
>>Stephanie: My whole life I wanted to be
in advertising – so since fourteen I was
literally pursuing a path towards that. It
was very much about using that application
and that kind of thinking towards business,
sort of understand brands, understand consumers,
and understand culture. I had gone to Africa
and realized that I wanted to do more. And
what I thought more was getting my degree
in anthropology and getting my PhD, but instead
I became a recruiter, which is quite an usual
path. But for me really, the driving force
behind that was understanding my motives of
wanting to go into anthropology. It became
really about understanding people. So, I used
a lot the anthropological kind of philosophies
and thinking and digging into understand people;
what makes them tick, what they want they
do, and understanding the whys underneath
of what they’re doing. I do that similarly
kind of with organizations and companies,
understanding what sort of what their place
is in the organization and what they’re
trying to do within the culture. I want to
understand and be involved with people and
peoples’ lives because I want to help people
and figure that out. When I had written those
things down and was figuring it out I realized
a job in recruiting is like that, and much
to my surprise I think, and so I feel in love
with the job and have been there for three
years.
