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take your time and give yourself a lot of grace to learn,” she said, meaning that it’s “a journey, not a race, and although the urge is to come into a new job and dominate, it is okay to take it one step at a time when there is such a big learning curve.”
Te most important lesson Bazilio has learned is that the best experience is hands-on experience. “Even if you don’t know how to do something, being willing to ask questions and learn is so important to build the trust of others around you,” she said, adding that hands-on experience is also key to learning the job and becoming a vital part of the team. “Te goal is to be useful and valuable to the bigger goals of the organization.”
Bazilio’s role in helping to plan, manage and track funding plays a vital part in making those goals a reality. “I am known as a plan- ner,” she said of her hobbies outside of the office, too. While she said the enjoyment of planning travel or birthday parties doesn’t exactly correlate to her current role, being able to have the atten- tion to detail to plan and forecast applies. Planning and managing a budget is important as project managers plan for how they are going to spend their funding in the year ahead and how they plan to set funds aside to ensure they are available whenever needed.
KEEP IN TOUCH Bazilio remained in contact with JPEO A&A leadership follow- ing her participation in the DOD College Acquisition Internship Program. She was hired upon graduation. (Photo courtesy of Brianna Bazilio)
in and would recommend to others, in or outside of the Army, is Emergenetics. She described the training as an interactive and insightful leadership workshop that took individual personality behaviors and taught how they can be applied in the workplace and used to their advantage when working with others in their careers. “It opened my eyes to how I learn and interact in the workplace based on my personality,” she said. “It just helps me be more aware of the best ways to interact with other individuals.”
As she continues to learn and grow in her career, she said she would recommend to junior acquisition professionals starting out to be eager and willing to step up to the plate and do what- ever it takes. “You’re not going to get it right the first time and there’s a huge learning curve in the Army, especially with all the acronyms, but there is also so much good that happens if you
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“Te best part of the Army is there are so many departments that you can transfer to and experience,” she said, However, her plans are to continue growing right where she is. “In the future I would love to be a team lead and have more responsibility because I love what I do,” she said.
—HOLLY DECARLO-WHITE
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