11/11/2014
Shea O'Connell attended SUNY Oswego's 10th Annual Media Summit where she spoke with students about her experience at our school and her current career at VH1's Production Management Events Department as the Executive Assistant/Production Associate. O’Connell stressed that internships were most important, especially since most of them were paying internships. She revealed that she received her job at VH1 because of a previous internship she once had there. O’Connell stayed in contact with her adviser at VH1 who called her when a spot, thankfully, opened. O’Connell admitted she knew nothing when she first started working with VH1’s production management team, but as time went by she began to understand. At the end of her presentation, O’Connell was asked a series of questions, through which she gave SUNY Oswego’s students great words of advice. She mentioned that résumés were a “big piece of the puzzle”, and instructed students to take advantage of their professors as they could be of assistance when it came to formatting résumés. Ms. O’Connell, a former student of SUNY Oswego, graduated just two years ago and was able to get a great profession at VH1, a historic television network. She told her audience, which were made up of juniors and seniors, “The only person who can make you fail is yourself.”
