About Me:
Hello! I'm Cassidy Shumaker: lifelong Gamecock, passionate mentor, and future businesswoman. I've completed this portfolio on the Professional & Civic Engagement Pathway and I have thoroughly enjoyed connecting and summarizing four years of incredible experiences while writing it. Reflection is a valuable and powerful tool. Of the many lessons USC has taught me, the most difficult, the most confusing, and the most important is the ability to look back on what I have achieved and reflect with great determination about what those achievements mean and how I will utilize them to my advantage moving forward.
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My degree will be a Bachelors of Science in Business Administration, comprised of my two majors: Supply Chain & Operations and Management of Human Resources with minors in Political Science and Data Analytics. I will be taking my degree and my skills to Michelin starting in June, where I will begin my training for my role in field sales. I am eager to begin my career at such a fantastic company and look forward to the classic Michelin experience of having "many careers without ever changing companies". I hope to be able to find myself in a variety of roles and using an array of skills before I retire, which is great, since I've been taught to use my skills in more than just one way.
Forever to Thee!
As you read this portfolio, I hope you can get a taste for what my experience at USC has been like. To give you a preview: I have gotten involved in many various clubs, I have been a mentor in a variety of capacities, I have studied abroad, I have worked several jobs, and I have, most notably, lived (on campus) through the 2015 flood. I am a Gamecock and I hope you find that my portfolio demonstrates a Gamecocks unique ability to reflect upon and often cherish experiences (though not always positive ones) that have molded me into the person I am today. A person who - to myself four years ago - is unimaginably admirable and strong. A person who identified passions, a person who achieved greatness in the face of adversity, and a person who has so much more time to affect change.
This portfolio includes three Key Insights which delve into the relationships I've been able to forge between my beyond-the-classroom experiences and my within-the-classroom learning as well as a leadership section where I examine an issue that is important to me and evaluate a means to improve it in a specific context. Looking back on the challenges I have faced, I am so grateful to have had this opportunity to reflect upon my experiences and to recognize the connections that I have been able to make already between my life and the classroom. I know that moving forward, throughout the rest of my career and my life, I will continue to make these connections, I will continue to reflect, and I will continue to grow.