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Gabriella Chen
Customer Success at Everlaw
Gabriella Chen is a highly motivated data and customer service professional dedicated to crafting customer-centered solutions through continuous improvement and learning. With a knack for problem-solving and a collaborative spirit, she excels both independently and within team settings. Her approach blends efficiency with innovation, challenging conventions and fostering a creative mindset.
Gabriella holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Chemistry, graduating Cum Laude from Carleton College. She also attended Holton-Arms School, showcasing her commitment to academic excellence and personal development.
Professionally, Gabriella has an extensive background with reputable organizations such as Everlaw, McMaster-Carr, and University of Delaware. She held various roles at Everlaw, including Customer Success Associate, Queue Operations Lead, Product Support and Workflows Specialist, Training Supervisor, and Learning Pod Teacher. Her diverse experience ranges from customer support to operations management, reflecting her versatility and adaptability.
Prior to Everlaw, Gabriella served as a Farm Assistant at Pine Root Farm, a Volunteer at All Hands and Hearts - Smart Response, a Customer Support and Operations Manager at McMaster-Carr, and a Trainee in Management Rotational Program in both Email Contact Center and Product Help Department at McMaster-Carr. This broad spectrum of positions underscores her comprehensive skill set and industry insights.
Gabriella's early career involved roles such as REU Researcher at UD Earth, Ocean, and Environment at the University of Delaware, Spanish Research Assistant at Carleton College, Intern at Nourish Now, and Camp Counselor at Life Pieces To Masterpieces. These experiences demonstrate her dedication to research, academia, community service, and youth development.
In summary, Gabriella Chen epitomizes a versatile professional with a strong educational background, coupled with extensive experience in data analytics, customer service, team leadership, and operational management across diverse industries. Her proactive attitude, problem-solving skills, and passion for continuous learning make her a valuable asset in any organizational setting.
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Hi all! My company is hiring for a Federal Support specialist based in DC. This is currently the role I’ve been working in for two years.
If you’re interested in getting into tech, this is a really great company to be at. I will also say, this is not a traditional “Support” role at all, and feels more akin to being a Client Solutions Advisor or being a Product Training Specialist. In addition to supporting the product, you have plenty of time to partner closely with Custom Success, work on internal process optimization projects and technical writing projects building out our knowledge base documentation, and collaborate on feature requests and bugs with the Engineering/Product team.
Please reach out if you know anyone who is interested!
Hello LinkedIn Friends, I’m excited to say that I recently accepted a job offer at Everlaw as a Customer Support Specialist. I also wanted to share some tips and insights I learned along the way. Thank you to everyone who helped me during the job search process. I am happy to start a new chapter of my career and learn the ropes of a new business.
1. Don’t get discouraged! My job search took approximately 3 months (Oct-early Jan). Like so many others, I received dozens of rejections from companies. Just remember it happens to everyone and try not to let it get you down.
2. Utilize your network. For me, networking took the form of 2 ways: 1) Asking my friends if they knew of any open positions, and 2) Posting that I was looking for work on LinkedIn. People are more than happy to help. References won’t get you a job, but they might get you through the door. Of all the job offers I was considering at the end, all of them started as referrals.
3. Use Glassdoor to prepare for interviews. I used Glassdoor to prepare for almost every interview I did. For coding interviews, I also used a website called Codewars or CodeSignal. 4. Inevitably, there will be a question you haven’t prepared for. And that’s okay. Even after months of interviewing, there were always interesting questions that I had never heard before. My two strategies were clarifying the question and thinking aloud/talking through my approach. 5. Everyone gets nervous. If you get nervous before an interview, don’t worry, you’re not the only one! I’ll say that the more I interviewed, the more confident I got. 6. Don’t be too hard on yourself after an interview. There were interviews I thought I nailed and didn’t up getting the job. There were also interviews I thought were so-so, and I ended up progressing or getting an offer. You just never know!
7. Take what recruiters say with a grain-of-salt. Most recruiters I interacted with were very nice, but a few pressured me into accepting an offer with little time and used language that misled me into believing I got a position. That is to say, recruiters are a big help, but be aware that it isn’t over until you receive that final acceptance or rejection. 8. Reach out for feedback after rejections. When I was rejected to jobs after many rounds of interviews, I would send one last thank-you email to my interviewers and ask for feedback. This way you can improve on future interviews. Sometimes you will also find out that they don’t have any feedback, and that other candidate just aligned better. If you weren’t the right fit, it’s nothing personal.
9. Think about what will make you happiest long-term. In the end, I was lucky to have 3 offers that each pointed me into different career paths. Ultimately, I chose the one that I thought I’d be happiest in long-term. Trust your intuition and know your priorities in your work/life balance.
