\u201cI was doing well. With a university degree and 3 years of professional experience, I was enjoying my job as a marketing planner. Then the crisis struck Spain: My employer went bankrupt, I lost my job, and I couldn\u2019t find another one that matched my qualifications. It was so frustrating.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cIn my job search, I soon realized that companies were looking for digital skills that I didn\u2019t have. That was the moment I decided to join Generation Spain\u2019s Data Analyst program. It was one of the best decisions of my life: Generation gave me the knowledge I needed to build a new professional profile.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cGeneration has been a second university for me. It was intense, but it\u2019s amazing how much I learned in just a couple of months. When I graduated, I felt perfectly prepared to deal with the new Digital world. Soon after that I received an offer from CartoDB in Madrid. Now I\u2019ve regained my professional status and my career is back on track.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat\u2019s great about Generation is that it focuses on much more than just technical skills. The modules, teamwork and coaching in the program gave me the power to build my career for the long term \u2013 including the ability to structure my ideas, communicate more clearly, and focus on the positive.\u201d<\/p>\n
After almost 2 years working at CARTO<\/a>, Bel\u00e9n pivoted into an Online Marketing Manager role at reclamador.es. After a year developing and learning as much as she could in this sector, she moved to Jones Lang LaSalle<\/a>, a global real estate services company. She was the EMEA Digital Manager for Southern Europe, before being promoted a few months ago into an EMEA Global Digital Revenue Operations Manager role.<\/span><\/p>\n Belen enjoys managing a team and boosting the careers of those newer to the industry, as she once was. She also bought a house two years ago and is now planning to get married.<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cLooking back, the person I am today, part of this success is from Generation.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" “With a university degree and 3 years of professional experience, I was enjoying my job as a marketing planner. Then the crisis struck Spain.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":833,"template":"","outlet":[],"audience":[165],"class_list":["post-832","stories","type-stories","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","audience-voices","wpautop"],"acf":[],"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"Generation","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/www.generation.org","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.generation.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/stories\/832","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.generation.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/stories"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.generation.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/stories"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.generation.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/833"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.generation.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=832"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"outlet","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.generation.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/outlet?post=832"},{"taxonomy":"audience","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.generation.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/audience?post=832"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}