When it comes to college, not a lot of students manage to graduate with honors. After all, doing so requires a lot of hard work and persistence that most individuals are not willing to reach. Chicago native, Connor Mulvey, on the other, is not one of them. By reaching the Dean’s List multiple times, he established himself as an outstanding student of Loyola University Maryland. Once he obtained his degree, he quickly found a job with the Genesis Group where he serves clients as a junior associate. Besides his professional engagements, Connor Mulvey also spends a lot of time running and resistance training.
Why did you choose to pursue a career in the field in which you currently work?
When I was in school, I was very interested in topics surrounding the fields of economics and finance. In the real world, however, most of the jobs related to these two skillsets tend to over-focus on one while neglecting the other. So, for example, if I was to become a financial advisor, my role would focus on personal finance while putting general economics on the back burner.
With my current role, however, I get to use both my finance and economy skills and so much more. I constantly have to learn new laws and rules in accounting, investing, and more. In translation, there is seldom any downtime as I am constantly moving and trying to make myself a more valuable asset to my clients. So, the main reason why I wanted to be in this field is this constant change that makes my job unpredictable and exciting.
In what way does your professional role make it possible for you to have a positive impact on others?
I work directly with clients who are in need of professional help in their marketing or public relations departments. Sometimes, my role is based on looking at their frame of operations and figuring out the bottleneck that is causing their efficiency to go down. Other times, however, I have to engage in extremely long negotiations to fix issues that might have been building up for years. This can be challenging but I enjoy it. The fact that I never really know what the next client will bring makes me work hard and, in turn, make their life easier.
Can you give our readers any advice about starting their own business?
You need to do a lot of research first. Is your business going to promote its products or services online? Will you reach out to suppliers once you form your legal entity or after? How will you structure your employment contracts? What will be your primary goals and objectives? How will you reduce your acquisition costs? There are so many questions that you could spend months trying to answer.
This is why it is crucial that you do a lot of research and understand what it takes to jump-start business and how you can incentivize the demand side of the market effectively. After that, you have to surround yourself with great employees who will be willing to work hard and support your vision. You should structure the organization in a way that will allow the workers to pursue growth opportunities and move up the ladder.
What do you do for recreation?
I am very physically active. I try to run or do some form of resistance training at least a few times a week. Running gives me the much-needed stretching and cardiovascular exercise that I truly yearn for after a long day at the office where I might have spent the past 10 hours sitting down. Resistance training, on the other hand, helps me stay in shape and I approach this as a passionate hobby because I get to track my own achievements. Both of these are also a great way for me to recover from work-related pursuits as I get to do something that has nothing in common with my professional career.
Is there an Australian you admire or who has had a profound influence on you personally or professionally? Explain.
I have recently been reading a lot about Michael Chaney who is the former Chancellor of the University of Western Australia. He is also a successful businessman who spent 10 years working as the Chairman of the National Australia Bank Limited. His entrepreneurial career is extremely impressive, and I really enjoyed looking at all of his accomplishments. He has yet to have a profound influence on me, however, as I just learned about him. Nevertheless, Mr. Chaney is the kind of person who motivates people to reach their goals and strive for greatness. I know that his story has definitely motivated me to start working harder.
