????凱瑟琳?莫納漢

????? 公司：Bright Horizons Family Solutions

????? 最佳雇主公司排名：第77位

????? 職位：幼教老師

????? 年齡：25歲

????凱瑟琳?莫納漢說：“盡管這么說聽起來挺傻的，但我確實相信自己生來就要從事和孩子有關的工作。”

????當她在位于波士頓保誠中心（Prudential Center）的Bright Horizons公司幼教中心面試時，正是這份熱情彌補了她經驗的不足。

????莫納漢的姐姐也是Bright Horizons公司的員工，對這家公司評價很高。莫納漢在公司的招聘門戶上投了簡歷，把姐姐列為了推薦人。那時她在一家社教中心工作，主要是幫6到7歲的孩子放學后輔導作業，這份工作她從高中畢業起就一直在做。

????一個公司招聘人員接受了莫納漢的工作申請，隨后讓她和保誠中心的Bright Horizons的總監接觸，當時這家公司正在招聘。面試了兩次，在電話邊等了兩天后，2008年初，莫納漢得到了這份工作。她說：“我老板說了，雇我主要是沖著我的態度，而不是經驗。”入職六年后，莫納漢現在接受的培訓已經能和她熱情的天性相匹配了。她好幾周晚上都去上Bright Horizon贊助的課程，獲得了早教證書。隨后在總監的督促下，她又獲得了專業幼師資格證書（Child Development Associate certificate），這讓她當上了主導教師——也就是她現在的崗位。

????這些夜校課程在她每次工作時都能派上用場。她說：“走進教室大門，聽到孩子們大聲喊我的名字，這是我一天中最開心的時候。他們緊緊抱著我的腿，就像小螞蝗一樣。”（財富中文網）

????譯者：清遠???

????Kathryn Monahan

????? Company: Bright Horizons Family Solutions

????? Best Companies rank: 77

????? Role: Toddler Teacher

????? Age: 25

????"As silly as it sounds," Kathryn Monahan says, "I believe I was born to work with children."

????It's that passion that made up for Monahan's lack of experience when she interviewed at the Bright Horizons childcare center in Boston's Prudential Center.

????Monahan's sister is also a Bright Horizons employee and had spoken highly of the company. Monahan applied to the company's general job portal, listing her sister as a reference. At the time she was working at a social center helping kids ages 6 to 7 after school with homework, a job she'd held since graduating high school.

????A company recruiter received Monahan's application and put her in touch with the director of the Prudential Center Bright Horizons, which was hiring. It took two interviews and two days of waiting by the phone in early 2008 for Monahan to land the job. "My boss says she hired me more for my attitude than my experience," she says.

????And six years later, Monahan now has the training to match her enthusiastic nature. She earned her early education certificate by taking Bright Horizon-sponsored classes in the evenings for several weeks. She then earned her Child Development Associate certificate at the urging of her director, which qualified her for a lead teacher role—a job she now holds.

????Those evening classes pay off every time she goes to work. "Walking through the door and hearing the kids shout my name is the best part of my day," she says. "They're like leeches on my legs."???