{"id":28652,"date":"2017-10-19T16:15:35","date_gmt":"2017-10-19T20:15:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/necc.edu\/newsroom2\/2017\/10\/19\/alumna-returns-necc-share-business-advice\/"},"modified":"2026-05-14T17:14:17","modified_gmt":"2026-05-14T21:14:17","slug":"alumna-returns-necc-share-business-advice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/necc.edu\/newsroom\/2017\/10\/19\/alumna-returns-necc-share-business-advice\/","title":{"rendered":"Alumna Returns to NECC to Share Business Advice"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_16650\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/media-old\/2017\/10\/Reanne-Malewsky-003.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-16650\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-16650\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/media-old\/2017\/10\/Reanne-Malewsky-003-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-16650\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">NECC alumna Reanne Malesky shared real world business tips during a Presentation Skills Workshop to business and hospitality students this month.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Proof your PowerPoint, know your audience, watch your body language, dress appropriately and watch out for those pesky\u00a0 \u201cummmmms\u2019\u2026These were just a few of the tips Northern Essex Community College alumna Reanne Malesky\u2019s shared with NECC hospitality and business majors recently.<\/p>\n<p>Her Presentation Skills Workshop was co-sponsored by the new Business &amp; Accounting Academic Center and Career Services. It was held in the newly renovated Lecture Hall A in the Spurk Building on the Haverhill campus.<\/p>\n<p>Malesky dispensed advice she said she never heard in high school or college regarding presentations, yet \u201cpresentations are an important part of the corporate structure.\u201d The first dozen times she presented, she said she was \u201cterrified\u201d. Now that she\u2019s a corporate trainer, it is second nature, but only because she reports for every presentation prepared and practiced.<\/p>\n<p>She earned her business transfer degree\u00a0in 2010 and then transferred to UMass Amherst. She graduated<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_16649\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/media-old\/2017\/10\/Reanne-Malewsky-014.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-16649\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-16649\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/media-old\/2017\/10\/Reanne-Malewsky-014-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-16649\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Malesky presents on presenting a PowerPoint presentation.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>from UMass in 2012. Malesky who is now a trainer for Charles River Development\u00a0in Burlington, visited the Haverhill campus recently. Using equal parts humility, levity, and professionalism, she passed along real world experience in the hopes of helping students avoid embarrassing situations or worse give a poor presentation.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPowerPoint should be a visual aid to support a message,\u201d she said. \u201cA poor PowerPoint can kill a presentation. Rule of thumb \u2013 don\u2019t use more than 10 slides and establish a message.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Malesky presents on presenting a PowerPoint presentation.After graduating from UMass Amherst, where she changed her major from business to political science, she worked as an unpaid intern for U.S, Senator Elizabeth Warren\u2019s campaign. Through networking, she landed a job at Putnam Investment&#8217;s call center eventually moving into the training department. After several years, she migrated to Charles River Development where she trains clients on how to use the investment management software.<\/p>\n<p>She loves the autonomy of the job as well as the potential for travel within the international company.<\/p>\n<p>Some of the finer points she has learned along the way she said include not completely appreciating Northern Essex faculty and small class sizes until after she graduated. As an NECC student, she said, she valued the fact she was able to take a variety of classes including accounting, business, art, biology, and physics.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI really got to know my professors,\u201d she said. \u201cI still stay in touch with (business professor) Pat Morrow and visit the campus a few times a year.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Networking is imperative, she said. \u201cNetworking is about communicating. It\u2019s helped move me forward.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Other tips? \u201cExpect to be frustrated in your job search. Rejection is part of the process,\u201d she said. Once she went through a series of four interviews and a full background check and still didn\u2019t land the job.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTake your frustration and use it as inspiration,\u201d she said. \u201cDon\u2019t beat yourself up. I take my mother\u2019s advice and appreciate those times when I get the \u2018carrot\u2019. \u201d<\/p>\n<p>Malesky, who grew up in Merrimac and graduated from Pentucket Regional High School, said she would encourage Northern Essex students to explore transferring to a state school. \u201cThey make the process really easy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>She also said students should consider getting involved in extracurricular activities on the NECC campus as well as wherever they transfer. As a Northern Essex student Malesky was president of the Community Outreach Group and involved with the Gay\/Straight Alliance Club.<\/p>\n<p>Goal oriented, the 27-year-old who now lives in Malden, hopes to purchase her own home in the not too distant future and get involved in politics at the local level.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLocal politics feel more impactful,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Proof your PowerPoint, know your audience, watch your body language, dress appropriately and watch out for those pesky\u00a0 \u201cummmmms\u2019\u2026These were just a few of the tips Northern Essex Community College [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":28654,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28652","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-archive"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.2 - 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