Spotlight on: Aaron Washington

At only 20 years old, Aaron Washington has accomplished much more than the average college student! Originally from Pennsylvania, Aaron relocated to West Virginia to pursue a degree in Strategic Communications with a minor in Communications in May 2016. 

He is a digital and content brand marketing intern at RheosGear Co.- an outdoor equipment company that specializes in fashionable outdoor apparel. Aaron's primary job responsibilities there are to  spread brand awareness, and directly advertise the company as well as coordinate promotion events for RheosGear. Prior to RheosGear, he worked as an intern for Bellhops, a collegiate based moving company in West Virginia. He was assigned a variety of tasks from being the hiring and firing role in management  to recruiting and bringing people onto the team at Bellhops.  It doesn't stop there though! Aaron is also the President of his fraternity, Kappa Sigma, at West Virginia University. In addition to his presidential role, he is also a member of the Leadership and Knowledge board at WVU, an academic board comprised of solely students with exemplary grades within the school. Aaron spoke briefly with the Brinley Team about being our first Intern for the summer as well as getting promoted within 7 days of his start date with us! Aaron says that he loved the Accelerated Management Program that he was hired to be a part of as an Account Executive Intern. He believes that the critical thinking and "incredibly efficient" system of training he was taught through is what pushed him to be able to get promoted in a week's time. Aaron feels that his commitment to being consistent and coachable are two major factors that helped him to gain his Executive Team Trainer title so quickly. He also says that being resilient is key in being successful in this business and that it is not for those who are quick to give up since it's not always easy being an entrepreneur.

We learned that Aaron had no sales experience at all prior to coming to Brinley to intern for the summer. He gave three pieces of solid advice to potential newcomers within the Brinley family that he applied to his daily work habits to be able to succeed in a field that he had never experimented with, let alone get promoted within at such a fast rate.

1. Be coachable: be a sponge. Learn what is being taught to you rather than coming in with a "know it all" attitude because it will get you nowhere. If you learn the system properly and constantly have a student mentality, you will have exponential success. 2. High sense of Urgency: come early and leave late. Efforts like that are definitely noticed by managers and directors in every job field. 3. Be consistent: don't flip flop one day with your strong habits and then be lackadaisical the next day.

Wrapping up his interview with a couple of goals, Aaron set a short term goal for himself saying, "Learning as much as I can about being professional is my main short term goal for myself right now." This goal led directly to potentially achieving his long term goal which Aaron described as, "I look up to Travis. (Travis Wilson II. is the Hiring Director at Brinley Consulting.) He's 24 and own his own business? That's the perfect role model for a young entrepreneur to look up to and aim and strive to be like as soon as possible."

Eventually, Aaron wants to apply his sales knowledge he has learned skills and valuable tool sets to the field of Pharmaceutical or Medical Sales back hope in Pittsburgh. The Washington family  is heavily involved in these particular Sales Fields. He desires to do this because he says being able to help people on a personal level while simultaneously get to pursue his newfound of Sales, is the perfect combination of a long term career.

Congratulations to Aaron on his success at Brinley and we can't wait to see what else his bright future holds in store!