Looking Back On An Unforgettable 2011 and Excited for 2012

2011 was a great year. I finished my MBA (in China), started ECLP, and got married. A new degree, 2 life changes and a trip around the world… it was awesome.  Just a few weeks ago when we said goodbye to 2011 and hello to 2012, I thought to myself, how could this year possibly compare to 2011? And then I remembered, I’m in ECLP. That means, this year, I will change jobs two times – once in March and once in October. I will make at least one international trip with our two week training and conference in Buenos Aires, Argentina, and fingers crossed our GE ECLP October 2012 conference is in a similar, sweet, international location. So right off the bat, this sounds like it could a pretty good year, but let’s dig into it a bit more.

In just a few weeks, we will head to Buenos Aires. During our first week there, we will be spending most of our time working through an intense risk training class (which complements the online risk training course we are all in the process of completing). This is my first exciting part of 2012 - I will be trained in an area of business that I never previously touched (as I worked in real estate pre-GE) by some of GE’s top risk experts. I know I may sound like a nerd saying this, but it’s pretty cool we are all given such in-depth education to supplement our rotations. 

During our free time, I will be catching up with the 52 2013 Capital ECLPs. From Hannah, who works with Mubadala in Abu Dhabi, to Cherlene, who works for GE Capital Aviation Services in Singapore (and also got married this past year), there are a lot of colleagues I have not seen in 8 months, so we have a lot to catch up on – my second exciting part of 2012. 

Then, after a week with just Capital folks, we head to the ECLP conference. This week is worth several blog posts on its own (this post from our last conference is a good summary of what it is all about and look out for many future posts about Buenos Aires in March), so I’ll just say the ECLP Conference will easily be the third most exciting part of 2012. 

Upon return from the GE ECLP conference in Buenos Aires, I will start a new rotation, which I just learned will be a sales role in Corporate Finance. So, I will have gone from a Real Estate career in 2011, to a marketing role within the Customer Insights team (where I did a wide variety of  customer research projects for almost every platform within GE Capital Americas), to now a sales role in a specific GE Capital Americas business. That’s quite the career path in just eight months – the fourth exciting part of 2012, and we’re just in March.

Now don’t get me wrong, there are moments from 2011 that 2012 won’t even come close to rivaling… 

But I enter the year feeling lucky to be a part of a program and a team that provides for so many exciting and interesting events in a year. I wish all of you a great 2012 too!

Posted by Becky