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Business, Customer and Employee

Relations

SALARY: EXPERIENCE: LEXI CRAWFORD
$50,000 - $100,000 Business administration and sales experience. › Gold Dust & Walker Farms

WHAT DO THEY DO?
Lexi’s job looks different from day to day. She spends a lot of
“ FAVORITE PART OF THE JOB time problem-solving and making improvements to business

management strategies and policies, in order to make better
The feeling of making a difference and having
work environments for the staff at Gold Dust and Walker Farms.
influence.
This work also helps ensure that customers are provided with the
ADVICE
best products possible. Lexi’s job requires her to be flexible with
her schedule; she might spend time in meetings all day, traveling
agricultural family. The agriculture industry to trade shows or visiting customers.
needs fresh perspectives. All that is required is
resilience, hard work and creativity.

Graduated with a master’s degree in
business administration and took a job
Don’t be afraid if you don’t come from an “
at Gold Dust & Walker Farms
Assisted the OSU
After completing an baseball program
internship class, reflected with marketing and
Joined a sorority, where on her career plan and fundraising projects
she met her future decided to pursue a
business partner master’s degree

Worked as a Sales
Consultant for Mary Kay
while attending Oregon Worked as an
State University (OSU) Administrative
Assistant for
Graduated with a bachelor’s degree her family’s civil
in business management with engineering firm
an entrepreneurship focus and
psychology minor