Absolute Alumni Spotlight – Josh Jochim

After I came back from London, I graduated that next May and took an Inside Sales position with Hudl, a leading sports software company, based in Lincoln, Nebraska. After just three months, I was promoted and became the youngest Territory Manager in our company’s history. I’m now responsible for helping teams at the high school & college level in Southern California realize the competitive advantage Hudl will provide their programs.

It honestly was crucial in helping me decide which career path to pursue. Beforehand, I was concentrated on pursuing a Marketing career and something along the lines of strategy for go-to-market plans. My internship in London, though, was all about dealing with both current clients and prospective ones. I thoroughly enjoyed this constant interaction. This made me realize my true passion and belief for helping people and being compensated based on your individual performance. This combination is a perfect fit for sales, and in being a former college athlete, sales associated with sports made it all that more meaningful.

Absolute taught me to become comfortable with the uncomfortable. There’s always going to be situations that are new and unexpected. I learned to embrace this – to have an attitude that I was going to learn from different occurrences and become better because of it. This whole experience gave me so much perspective on what else is out there, how others operate, and what makes different individuals successful. The amount I grew both professionally and personally, is exponential.

Public Transportation, hands down and without a doubt. While I wasn’t necessarily a stranger to big cities, I did grow up in a town of about 1,500. So, having to rely 100% on the timing of the Tube and then buses, was a nightmare to get used to. Because I’m pretty prideful and didn’t want to look like that tourist constantly taking out a map of the Tube, I tried to memorize my paths and then establish a routine immediately. This, as well as tips from co-workers, helped me make the adjustment and become comfortable with what I was doing and where I was going.

Aside from events we put on at my actual internship, my favorite memories were with some of the others in the program. Whether it was the weekend trips or enjoying ourselves a little too much on a weeknight just because we could – we had a lot of fun and it made the (sometimes) long workdays always worth it.