NEW KNOXVILLE, OHIO -- Deb Stephenson of New Knoxville says her new “dream job” as secretary to the principal at Sidney High School makes her feel like she’s “come home.” Stephenson is originally from Sidney and a graduate of the same high school from which she has landed her first job since receiving an associate’s degree this past spring from the Office Information Systems (OIS) program at the Lake Campus of Wright State University.
Stephenson decided to return to school when the factory job she held was relocated to Mexico. With government-funded reimbursement for tuition and books - and the fact that she wanted to get into office work or the computer field - she says the decision was a “no-brainer.”
Stephenson says she never could have landed this job without her degree and without the professional skills she acquired from the program. “I wouldn’t even have applied for such a job,” says Stephenson. Her degree specialty is in the administrative assistant option of the OIS program.
“The job is right up my alley,” notes Stephenson. “I perform all the normal functions you’d associate with being a school secretary, including processing new enrollments, assembling and copying meeting information, filling out reports, and processing grade cards, but it’s never humdrum because there’s always something new happening. Time zooms by so fast, and the way the work flows - necessitating my getting up and down and doing this or that - is right up my alley. I’m in ‘hog heaven.’ I couldn’t have asked for a better person to work for, I love the working hours, the pay is good, and I have immediate unbelievable benefits. I don’t ever plan to leave.”
Stephenson says she gives a lot of credit to the OIS program and the leadership and faculty at the Lake Campus. She gives special credit to H. Roger Fulk, associate professor and director of the program. “Mr. Fulk must have given me a glowing recommendation. There were seven other finalists for the job, all just as qualified as I was. During the interview I was able to very professionally present myself due to the exceptional skills he and other instructors have taught me. And to think I was supposed to report to work that evening in a factory job. Wow!”
Stephenson has two children, two step-children, and a grandson and is married to husband Craig who owns a drywall business in New Knoxville. She likes to walk in her spare time.
“I’m not kidding,” Deb concludes. “This opportunity is just wonderful. I can’t put into words what it has meant to me to get this job.”
Thanks, Gretchen Bollenbacher.
NEW KNOXVILLE, OHIO -- Deb Stephenson of New Knoxville says her new “dream job” as secretary to the principal at Sidney High School makes her feel like she’s “come home.” Stephenson is originally from Sidney and a graduate of the same high school from which she has landed her first job since receiving an associate’s degree this past spring from the Office Information Systems (OIS) program at the Lake Campus of Wright State University.
