Thursday 1 November 2012

Three Rotations at AT&T for Emily Verrett before Settling into Permanent Position


Emily Verrett started her career at AT&T thanks to a summer internship she completed in 2009. Her internship took place while Emily Verrett earned her Master in Business Administration degree from the Cox School of Business at Southern Methodist University from 2008 to 2010. After her summer internship was completed, Emily Verrett’s work with AT&T continued.

Emily Verrett’s began her fulltime career with AT&T in the Leadership Development Program (LDP). LDP is AT&T’s flagship talent development program that exposes top MBAs to three management rotations across the business.

Emily Verrett began her fulltime career with a rotation on the Workforce Development and Diversity team Emily Verrett’s second rotation was in the Government and Education group. In this rotation, Emily Verrett had the fortunate experience of being the first employee on a new team focused on marketing to government employees, teachers, and college students. Emily Verrett found her niche in this group and she created and sold a business case to eventually grow and run this group. This continued into her third rotation.

For Emily Verrett’s third rotation she hired 10 sales professionals for the Government and Education group. Her sales team has a total of 18 sales staff which she has been managing since she was successfully able to run the group. As a manager of this 18 person team, Emily Verrett has an impressive revenue base of $1.8 Billion. Emily Verrett’s management and business success of the team has led to a 5% growth since January of 2012.

Emily Verrett has impressive management skills and is without a doubt a very successful young professional. Her skills have made her a benefit to AT&T and her natural leadership abilities have made her, her own personal success. 

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