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Detroit native Shantell Williams graduated from Harvard University in 2018. She is pictured with her friends who lived with her in Cabot House dorm for three years. Photo: Hakeem Angulu While that was a smart move for Williams, some thought that she did not make the best decision when she turned down job offers in her senior year at Harvard and graduated without a job. Williams, who interned at Facebook and Tesla, had her own strategy on how to land the perfect job.
During the summer, Williams went to work researching various companies and contacting people she knew in and out of the tech industry. She hit online job boards, saw a few Amazon positions, and took it from there. “I’m a Black woman from Detroit, and my experience looks very differently than a lot of people at most of the companies I’ve been at,” Williams said. “So, that to me is something that I utilize as a resource. It’s really something that is priceless in terms of being in a room and being able to say, ‘Hey, are we actually serving this population?’”