William Hardy Email & Phone Number

I am a junior in the Haslam College of Business at the University of Tennessee and am workingtowards a bachelor of science of business with a major in marketing, a minor in entrepreneurship, anda concentration in sales. I have always enjoyed the challenge of putting myself out there andconnecting with new people. To test my resolve I became a door to door salesman this pastsummer, where in a very small amount of time I would have to build rapport with people andattempt to sit down and talk about educational resources for their children.My career goal is to go into marketing with a focus in product positioning. I’ve always wonderedabout why people do things, and from a business perspective it's interesting to know why people willbuy a certain brand over others. My goal is to expand my knowledge of how marketers positionproducts into the minds of consumers, and eventually be able to believe in a product enough thatI can help highlight the product to the consumers so that they will want to buy it. I mentionedhow I wanted to believe in the product because I hold my core values very highly, and can't market something I wouldn't use myself. I want to be able to work for a company that aligns with those core values, so that I will have no doubt about what I am pushing to the consumers.