Worried your lack of an MBA is going to keep you from that job you want? This MarketWatch.com profile of a Progressive Corp. executive might allay some of your worries. The piece essentially is a Q&A with Patricia Griffith, who in 24 years at Progressive “worked her way from claims representative to supervisor to regional manager and eventually to corporate claims process manager,” according to the story. “When an executive role opened in human resources, she figured without an M.B.A. or HR experience, she wouldn't get the job, so she didn't apply,” MarketWatch.com notes. But after a conversation with Progressive CEO Glenn Renwick, the website says, Ms. Griffith decided she was selling herself short. "In my mind I always thought: Can I go this far with just an undergraduate degree?" she says. "But no one ever said that to me." She ended up getting the job and spent six years as head of HR before moving back to her first love and becoming the company's chief claims officer.
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