Karen Hicks

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Get a Job: Karen Hicks
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Instead, they call for Karen Hicks (stat!), and let her take care of it.Which is why she's this week's subject here at Get a Job.

Ten years ago, Karen was your run-of-the-mill lefty: a politically-conscious environmental studies student at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill.Summer came, and she decided to enter the non-profit world, signing up for a grunt-level position with the National Toxics Campaign.The job?Knocking on doors.Lots of them.
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Knocking on doors appealed to Karen, and college lost her for the next ten years.
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When Karen started, the New Hampshire field operation was her and two other folks operating out of a staffer's girlfriend's grandmother's place.

As you well know, it got bigger.Way bigger.And Karen was there the whole time, guiding the New Hampshire operation from a three-member secret society meeting in some grandma's living room to a massive movement absorbing volunteers from across the country.Unfortunately, Iowa preempted New Hampshire, at least this time around, and Kerry's ephemeral (and, as it turned out, false) "electability" had elicited such a resounding win in Iowa that New Hampshire couldn't help but codify their decision (Massachusetts, Kerry's state, also shares a media market with New Hampshire).

But no sooner did the Granite State enthusiastically second Iowa's choice than Kerry seconded Dean's, bringing Karen on as a deputy field director.
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True to form, the DNC assumed the job, and brought Karen on as their national field director.

During the election, the DNC broke all its records for field organizing, a fact keenly noticed across the Atlantic.That's why, when brainstorming ways to win a third term, Tony Blair's Labour Party decided to bring Karen across the ocean to consult.
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Karen says the most important step is to get in the field.She learned her craft knocking on doors and those hoping to succeed her should start prepping their knuckles.Obsessing over the perfect job, she says, is foolish.

Karen Hicks, a former student on this course said, "I found the course so rewarding, people came in wanting a treatment and left full of confidence and looking wonderful.I enjoyed the contact with people and the feeling that I was doing something really worthwhile.The course gave me all the experience and knowledge I needed".Karen has since found full time employment in the beauty industry.