“Careers kind of take their paths,” says Bridget Russel, senior director of corporate communications for Getty Images. She has certainly followed hers through posts at Seattle University, MSI Consulting Group, and her current company.
“It all adds up when I look back at what I've done,” she notes. “I did things like design brochures. That helped in my writing and in understand[ing] marketing. Going to [start-up] Onvia.com [in 1999] gave me a very clear understanding of the whole corporate ...