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????任職公司：梅賽德斯奔馳美國公司

????萊恩?布朗寧加入梅賽德斯奔馳（Mercedes-Benz, USA）的過程可謂一波三折，歷盡了千辛萬苦。進入這家公司工作一直是他的夢想。

????他說：“這還得追溯到我童年時的夢想。我每年都去看車展。當時我夢想中的汽車是500SL。梅賽德斯奔馳是一家偉大的公司，這種想法深深鐫刻在我腦海里。”

????布朗寧長大成人后，曾在和平部隊工作過三年，主要在布基納法索和塞內(nèi)加爾提供財務顧問服務。之后他報名參加了杜克大學（Duke University）的MBA課程。

????2007年，梅賽德斯奔馳美國公司派代表參加了一年一度的全美黑人MBA大會。布朗寧也參加了會議，并向該公司代表們介紹了自己，其中包括米凱拉?索爾維諾。他希望能獲得一次實習機會，但米凱拉說當時還沒有這樣的機會。在第二年的大會上，布朗寧又遭遇了相同的情況。當年晚些時候，梅賽德斯奔馳的代表來到杜克大學。布朗寧遇到了索爾維諾，并認出了她；他說他記得她姓名中的大寫字母。

????這給她留下了深刻印象。他對索爾維諾說：“似乎每次見到您，一切都還是老樣子，沒有任何變化。”但這一次不一樣了，梅賽德斯奔馳啟動了一個項目，為不同商業(yè)領域精心挑選的幾個人提供培訓。布朗寧也提交了申請。

????先是申請，然后經(jīng)過一次電話篩選，一次人格分析，最后是智商測試，布朗寧獲邀參加最終面試。當時，他正在巴黎學習，在商學院已經(jīng)完成了兩年的學業(yè)。公司可以報銷候選人參加面試的國內(nèi)機票，但卻沒有針對國際航班的預算，因此布朗寧不得忍痛自己承擔了返回美國的費用，參加最終的篩選。

????后來，他完成了在巴黎的學業(yè)。等他回到家時，便收到了梅賽德斯奔馳的工作邀請。“從2007年的招聘會，到最終得到工作機會。經(jīng)過之前的種種，那一刻我真的非常高興。”

????布朗寧說，SL500依然是他的“初戀”，不過帶有復古式鷗翼形車門的2013款梅賽德斯奔馳SLS或許會成為他的新寵。

????Title: Pre-Owned Sales Department Supervisor

????Company: Mercedes-Benz, USA

????Ryan Browning basically had to bring back the Golden Fleece to land his job at Mercedes-Benz. But he had wanted to work there for a long time.

????"It all goes back to my boyhood dream," he says. "I went to car shows every year. My dream car at the time was a 500SL. It just cemented in my mind, okay, Mercedes-Benz is a great company."

????Fast-forward to Browning as an adult. After working in the Peace Corps for three years, doing financial advising in Burkina Faso and Senegal, Browning entered an MBA program at Duke University.

????In 2007, Mercedes-Benz USA brought representatives to the annual National Black MBA Conference, which Browning attended. He introduced himself to the company's representatives, one of which was Michaela Sorvino, about an internship, but she said there wasn't one available. The same thing happened at the conference the next year. Later that year, the Mercedes reps came to Duke. Browning walked up to Sorvino and recognized her; he said he remembered her initials.

????She was impressed. "I was like, every time I see you, there's nothing going on," he told Sorvino. But this time was different. Mercedes Benz had just started a program to train a select few in various parts of the business. Browning applied.

????One application, a phone screen, a personality profile, and an IQ test later, Browning was invited for a final interview. He was studying in Paris at the time, completing his second year at business school. The company flew candidates in for the interview, but didn't have the budget to pay for an international flight, so Browning bit the bullet and paid his own way back to the U.S. for the final stage of the process.

????He finished his coursework in Paris, and when he returned home, there was a job offer waiting for him. "After going through all that -- a career fair back in 2007, to actually getting an offer, that was a very happy moment."

????Browning still appreciates his first love, the SL500, he says, although the 2013 Mercedes-Benz SLS with retro gullwing doors is probably his new favorite car.