{"id":129369,"date":"2021-01-05T10:57:01","date_gmt":"2021-01-05T17:57:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/?p=129369"},"modified":"2022-09-22T09:30:32","modified_gmt":"2022-09-22T15:30:32","slug":"putting-the-puzzle-pieces-together-adam-byrnes-18","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/?p=129369","title":{"rendered":"Putting the Puzzle Pieces Together | Adam Byrnes \u201918"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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For many of us, life seems to have stood at a standstill since the spring, when COVID-19 swept the U.S.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But life hasn\u2019t stopped at all for Adam Byrnes \u201918 \u2013 who earned a master\u2019s degree, launched a full-time career and adjusted to living in a new city, all in the midst of a pandemic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

While earning his bachelor\u2019s degree in business administration from the College of Business at UCCS, Adam not only found a passion for data analysis. He also discovered a field that would let him tell the stories that data can show to businesses: human resources.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Now, Adam works as a compensation and benefits analyst for Siemens, the largest industrial manufacturing company in Europe, where he helps the organization to see financial data as \u201cpieces of a puzzle\u201d \u2013 and to make key decisions in salary management and pay equity for nearly 400,000 employees worldwide. It\u2019s a job he started in June of 2020, after graduating during a global surge of COVID-19 cases.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWhen I was interviewing for a job, it was strange to have everything virtual,\u201d Adam said. \u201cI remember doubting myself as I couldn\u2019t read expressions or gestures as easily because I was interviewing through a Microsoft Teams meeting.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cHowever, the same philosophy of normal interviews applied. I was diligent in expressing interest and doing research, asking questions related to COVID-19 and the digital push when interviewing. Companies are facing the real challenges of a digital environment and the uncertainty of when we can return to an office.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We caught up with Adam to hear what it was like to navigate graduation and a new job during a pandemic, how to ask for feedback early in your career, his best advice for UCCS students and where he hopes to go in the future.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n

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