{"id":10254,"date":"2016-09-26T10:00:39","date_gmt":"2016-09-26T14:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/news.samsung.com\/us\/?p=10254"},"modified":"2023-12-19T13:46:37","modified_gmt":"2023-12-19T18:46:37","slug":"faces-of-samsung-jenny-shull-a-career-of-life-changing-opportunities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.samsung.com\/us\/faces-of-samsung-jenny-shull-a-career-of-life-changing-opportunities\/","title":{"rendered":"A Career of Life-changing Opportunities"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\u201cYou\u2019re not going to find a more challenging atmosphere that\u2019s only going to make you better in the long-run,\u201d says Jenny Shull, a Samsung veteran who recently celebrated eight years with the company.<\/p><\/div>\n

Jenny Shull has the heady title of Innovation Manager at Samsung Electronics America, but her time with Samsung didn\u2019t start on such a lofty note.<\/p>\n

\u201cI learned how to write HTML and spent the summer manually transferring all content from one website to another,\u201d said the California native, recalling her first summer with Samsung as a college intern.<\/p>\n

Despite its pedestrian nature, that experience was the start of a remarkable career marked with opportunities Jenny never imagined.<\/p>\n

Two weeks after graduating from Duke, Jenny joined Samsung as a full-time employee with the Information Tech Division in Irvine, California. After six months as a marketing coordinator there, she made the move with the division across the country to be housed in the North America headquarters office in New Jersey. Then after about four years as an events manager, Jenny was unexpectedly called into the HR office.<\/p>\n

\u201cI thought I was getting laid off,\u201d she said. But what happened instead was quite the opposite.<\/p>\n

HR offered her the opportunity to participate in a 2.5-year global scholarship program in Korea where she would earn an MBA then work for a year at global headquarters in Seoul.<\/p>\n

The catch? She had two days to decide.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was crazy!\u201d she said. The better part of that evening she spent on the phone with her parents, boiled down to something like this:
\n\u201cNo way!\u201d said dad, who wasn\u2019t about to let his little girl go overseas when he had been trying to get her back home to Southern California.
\n\u201cIt\u2019s a free education!\u201d said mom, who missed her little girl just as much but knew this was an opportunity she couldn\u2019t let her pass up.<\/p>\n

Mom won. And Jenny was off for an adventure of a lifetime.<\/p>\n