Overdressed and Underqualified

Second year Orr Fellow Brian Carter talks about how he tries to be civically engaged and give back to his community.

Orr is an entrepreneurial/business fellowship, but we have many opportunities to give back to your community. Fellows also take it upon themselves to find other opportunities like Brian!

Katie Smith talks about founding her career coaching business, Careerable, beginning the job search, and preparing your resume and yourself for job interviews.

Tanner Halbig, Orr alumnus of the class of 2014, talks about how he made a career for himself completely different from his Finance background and also started his own company within a week of getting laid off at Angie's List at the end of his fellowship.

Ron Stiver, President of System Clinical Services at IU Health, talks about his time working for Governor Mitch Daniels and how he has taken much of that experience to his job at IU Health.

Mike Reynolds, CEO and founder of Innovatemap, talks about his company and describes their mission. As a digital product agency, Innovatemap helps businesses bring their product ideas to life, take them to the next level, and help non-tech businesses use technology to differentiate themselves in the marketplace.

Nichole Clayton, an Orr Fellowship class of 2013 alumna, talks about life after the Fellowship, her time with TechPoint, and her very recent decision to start working at Lev. For context, TechPoint is a non-profit organization focused on recruiting top talent for tech companies in Indianapolis. They host an internship program for ten weeks over the summer with the hopes that companies will hire interns as full-time employees.

Kelly Smith, a Notre Dame graduate with a degree in English, talks about how she applies her writing skills to her daily job and what it’s like to run a team in the Fellowship. Kelly is a second year Fellow and works at Sigstr, an email signature marketing company, and she is also a member of the Fellowship Leadership Team (FLT).

To provide more context to my interview with Kelly, Fellows have opportunities to contribute to Orr Fellowship’s continued growth while learning essential skills as they recruit the next class of Fellows in addition to owning initiatives, planning events, and stepping into leadership roles. Orr Fellowship is a two-year, post-grad program, so every year we recruit college seniors to be the new class of Fellows. This means that there are only two classes at any one time, and this is where the term 1st year or 2nd year comes in, depending on which year of your fellowship you are in. With each new class there also comes a new leadership team. While we all participate in Orr and keep it running, much like a business, we do have a board of directors and two full-time employees, but we also have a formal leadership team to oversee different departments. For Orr, this is called FLT, or Fellowship Leadership Team. We have Chief of Staff, Director of Recruitment, Director of Finance, Director of Curriculum, Director of Civic, Director of Fellowship and Alumni Engagement, Director of Marketing, and Director of IT. First years have the opportunity to get plugged in and be on teams, while second years run FLT. In order to fill these positions each year, we host elections. Any 1st year can run for a role, and on election day they present their platform, answer questions, and the rest of Orr Fellowship formally votes in the next director for each position.

Tiffany Sauder, President of ElementThree and member of the Orr Fellowship Board of Directors, talks about her time with Eli Lilly, owning a business during the Recession, and other challenges and successes that have led her to where she is today.

Bo Dietrick, an Orr alumnus who majored in film and business, talks about his career path through Orr to where he is today. Bo has worked for ExactTarget, Salesforce, TrendyMinds and Think Ahead Studios, and now works with his father in the family business, Robert Dietrick Company. On top of all of his business experience, Bo also shares his insight on film, audio, and what it’s like to be an alumnus on the Orr Fellowship Alumni Advisory Council.

Karyn Smitson, the executive director of Orr Fellowship, talks about her career before Orr Fellowship and what her daily life entails. From Host Company recruitment to working with and supporting Orr Fellows themselves, in our podcast today Karyn shares what it’s like to be on the other side of our organization.