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Kim Lochner's Impact On Human Behavior

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Having an interest in human behavior is what drove Kim Lochner to pursue training and education in the fields of psychology and communications. Kim attended the University of Wisconsin, Madison and graduated with a double major in both psychology and communications. She had no specific plan or career goal when she graduated, but assumed she would work in the area of event planning. To her surprise, her introduction into the field of communications and her claim to fame is that she was hired to drive the Wiener Mobile. She and her team would drive from city to city, setting up media interviews, organizing and publicizing their events.
Kim’s first job as a communication specialist and her first job in corporate communications working for Best Buy. While at Best Buy she supported various departments doing promotions, writing stories for brochures, and working on internal communication projects. She was then moved to the Public Relations team where she conducted media interview to report stock prices and wrote press releases. From there Kim moved …show more content…

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