Brenton Olson is a business management major with an emphasis in marketing and a cluster in supply chain management. His career aspirations are to work in sales/marketing management for Target Corporation. He has work experience managing teams and projects, as well as experience supervising and teaching youth through volunteer positions.

1. Brenton Olson
B100 Board Presentation
Major: Business Management
Emphasis: Marketing
Cluster: Supply Chain Management
Career Aspirations: Sales/Marketing Management at
Target Corporation

2. Well Screen Technician June 2007-
Present
Johnson Screens,| St. Paul, MN|
 Managed teams of 3-9 employees
 Coordinated work efforts and progress
 Continually trained employees on policies, procedures, problem solving, and efficiency.
 Worked successfully on projects valued over $2 million
Youth Counselor
Especially For Youth,| Midwest Region| June 2011-
Sept. 2011
 Constantly supervising and coordinating activities of a group of 12-24 youth
 Aided in the spiritual and emotional development of youth
 Led discussions and taught lessons
Full-Time Volunteer Representative Aug. 2008-
Sept.2010
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints | Hermosillo, Mexico|
 Supervised, instructed, and accounted for 140 volunteers on a daily and weekly basis
 Analyzed team and regional statistics and developed teaching methods to achieve goals
 Trained area leaders to motivate and create results
 Taught English in multiple institutions and small groups

3. What Matters Most and Why?
 matters most to me and why?
 What matters most? Once answered, that question should be one that
rules and determines all actions in your life. All inhabitants should ask
themselves regularly what is most important to them. It acts like a
rudder to the boat and a guide to life.
 The first and foremost important internal quality in my life is love
and charity. Christ set the greatest example of these characteristics.
Corinthians 13 teaches us that “charity never faileth,” and that if we do
not have charity we are nothing. On my mission I learned what it meant
to love everyone, my heart felt as though it had grown, I did not judge, I
only loved. If we love and serve, everything else in this life will fall into
place.
 Integrity is what allows others to trust and have confidence in us.
It should be at the top of everyone’s list. Simply enough if someone
doesn’t have integrity they will never have deep and true friends
because others will not trust them. Without it we will be pushed from
side to side never finding solid ground to plant ourselves on.
 Last but not least and definitely not all is commitment. Personally I
feel as though in order to have success in this life we must be
committed. I have learned that the best rewards come after working
hard and sticking to something that you know is right. It’s a quality
difficult to come by in our day and age. Loyalty and commitment are
dying qualities and that’s one of the reasons I value them so highly, as
more time passes they will be a higher commodity.

4. Three Mentors
 Marcus Holm
-ASEAN Territory Manager for Cisco Systems
 Richard Foster
-CPA, CFO Advisor & Partner for B2B CFO
 Robert Owens
-Marketing Specialist at Con Agra Foods

5. Interview Highlights
 Marcus Holm
-Constant growth and many new developments
-”Distinguish yourself,” “move into field sales which is
customer facing and where the $$$ is”
-Take advantage of leadership/sales development roles
that are now being offered by to top tech to college grads.
-Get a job or internship ASAP
-Expect Pressure, and lots of it
-Get to make a living by being myself, interacting with
people around the globe, broad responsibilities= rarely doing
the same thing.

6. Career Leader Assessment
 My Interests
-Creative production
-Influencing others
-Enterprise Control
 Key Skills
-Action-Oriented
-Motivational Ability
-Listening Skills
 Top Career Matches
-Public Relations and Communications
-Sales Management
-General Management
-Marketing and Marketing Management

7.  Industry Analysis
Food Retail
-The food retail market includes the retail sales of all food products, both packaged
and unpackaged, as well as beverages (including retail sales of all alcoholic and non-
alcoholic beverages). All on-trade sales of food and beverage are excluded.
Revenue: $927 billion
Growth: 4.2%
Projected Growth: 23% within the next 5 years
Geography Segmentation: The U.S. accounts for 17.4% of the global retail food
industry
Major Companies :Costco Wholesale Corporation, The Kroger Co., Target
Corporation, Wal-Mart Stores Inc., Safeway, Supervalu, Publix, Whole Foods
Industry Life Cycle: Inclining
New Advancements/Developments: increasing presence of nontraditional grocery
retailers, one stop shopping, extended shopping hours, online shopping
Key Success Factors:
Establishment of export markets
Constant driven need
Strong supply chain links
High performing workforce
Reducing productivity loss

8. Plans for the Future
 Current GPA 3.63
 Goal Graduation GPA 3.8
 I plan on doing my first internship here in Rexburg while
attending school and my second in Minnesota with Target.
 I would prefer to work for Target because of its Minnesota roots
and business practices.
 Other companies that interest me are Costco and Whole Foods,
however as long as I like the corporate culture and job
description I will be flexible.
 A dream is to someday when I’m established help new up and
coming business to find success in the business world.