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CEO (Engineering Company)

SALARY EXPERIENCE: YOUNG KIM
$80,000 - $120,000 “A STEM degree, certainly, an advanced business degree is a good practical › Digital Harvest
mix.”

WHAT DO THEY DO?

Young works to develop business strategies
and conducts business development. He is
in charge of managing the technical team of
software and hardware engineers.

“ The combination of working on solutions to a network of close relationships

FAVORITE PART OF THE JOB
Started his own company after
motivated him to do so
address business and technical problems
at the same time. Seeing the impact our
Built self-confidence (through
technologies have on our customers’ farming successes and failures) and gained
operations. market knowledge by focusing on
one industry for many years
ADVICE
Having a good education in STEM is just Earned a master’s degree in
business administration that
a start. Add curiosity, self-motivation and provided useful concepts and
humility, then you will be highly desired and structure to help organize and
compensated. “ lead business units

Assisted the OSU
baseball program Developed sales skills through
with marketing and various positions that gave him an
fundraising projects appreciation for thinking from the
customer’s perspective
Led and managed
business and
technical teams,
Early career entailed product teaching him how
concepting, development and to balance having
commercialization empathy and driving
for desired results

Started with a technical degree
in applied physics