Kimberly Thomas
Population Health
ABOUT ME
I am currently a senior at Indiana University Fairbanks School of Public Health pursuing my bachelor’s degree in health services management. I have a strong focus on building my career towards a public health leadership position. In my junior year, I took full-time courses geared towards health systems administration where I would work in several groups through various classes where we would create content on programs like Teams, Zoom, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Photoshop, Google Docs, etc. This final semester is geared towards gaining my entry-level skills in the workplace as an intern and pursuing the start of my career. People would describe me as hardworking, attentive to detail, passionate, bubbly, communicative, and a cordial partner to collaborate with. Throughout my career, I have acquired multiple skills. I have had multiple public speaking positions that have made me comfortable with public speaking and advancing my communication skills. I also tend to gravitate towards leadership positions as others have told me that I am a natural leader. I feel like these skills and various others that I demonstrate make me a good candidate for public health. I will be graduating in May 2024, and I plan to pursue a career in a public health leadership role. I am excited to pursue a position where I can further my development. Until I reach my goals, I will strive to acquire the skills and professional network to achieve them. Please feel free to contact me if you would like to connect with me or if you are aware of any positions open. Areas of expertise: Facebook LinkedIn Instagram TikTok Collaboration Public Speaking Representative work Budgeting & Finance Organization Public health
I chose health services management because healthcare is a fast-growing sector that offers growth potential. I also wanted the ability to understand population health and help create change. There are also a multitude of positions that I can take as learning opportunities while I am creating this change. A part of helping others is helping organizations run smoothly so the best care can be given.
Experience:
Family Promise:
At Family Promise I collaborated with team members to help serve 5 families, I bonded with children while I advocated for tired parents to sleep, and I generated questions about various policies and regulations so that I could better understand this community of people. This experience humbled me and made me want to create change in my future.
The Home Depot:
At The Home Depot, I learned how to collaborate with multiple stakeholders to follow up on product transition development. I was the main center for dictating where products went, whether for revenue or donation. It was part of my everyday routine to create queries with Excel and communicate the progress of products to higher-level management.
Academic Highlights:
This document is a highlight for me because it was an assignment that truely taught me the type of leader that I would like to be; participatory.
Capstone Internship
Capstone Internship: Indiana Health Fund Site: Remote Primary responsibilities: I manage all social media accounts, contribute to the monthly newsletter, offer communication tactics for events, and follow up with donors. Learning Objectives: I furthered my communication with different stakeholders, accessed marketing; including target audiences. I strengthened my direct experiences with donors and acceptors. I also strengthened my understanding of research tools in this profession. Personal Development: The personal growth that I experienced during this time has been my lifestyles like time management, I improved my employability, I also learned that I truely have a growth mindset because of the abillity to have resilience during this time. Academic Connections: What I learned in the classroom influenced my role in my internship by applying my time management skills that all of my classes, in general, taught me. My professionalism course helped me to understand how to write emails correctly, email response times, and how to dress accordingly to various ocassions. My leadership courses gave me more confidence in dealing with top management. My ethics class taught me how to ethically deal and respond to tougher situations.
Professional Goals:
My goals are to become a manager in the future, so it will be beneficial for me to strengthen my communication skills. I want to take my in-class experiences into the real world, which will help me for years to come. I am eager to learn more about health care and how it affects different communities. I am an HSM student; my future goals help me better understand how what I've been learning wraps up in the community.
Future Learning:
While thinking ahead with my professional goals, I went job hunting and learned that if I would like to go for accounting, I will need to obtain my CPA certification. There are books that I would like to reread that will help strengthen my negotiation skills, more environmental books that I would like to read, and time management books to will help me achieve success. There is more networking that I would like to do which will help me achieve my career path and will better advise me in my future interested roles.
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