Her Story
About Jessica
Jessica Wright is a food service, compliance, and operations professional with 20 years in the culinary industry, including 10 years in leadership and 3 years in healthcare settings. She serves as a Food Compliance Trainer, handling new hire onboarding, food safety training programs for leadership and staff, standard operating procedures, and chairing the safety committee for the Food and Culinary Department. She developed and implemented a food safety training program that helped shape the culture for the downtown health system. Her educational journey includes part-time studies at community college and online classes at Southern Unitary University, where she is a few classes away from earning her bachelor's degree. She also participates in hospital volunteer committees and the Spirit Ambassador team.
Her Interview
Ten minutes with Jessica
01What’s the best career advice you’ve ever received?
My husband once told me to make sure that everything that I create, I document. Everything that I had a hand in, I saved somewhere else. Basically, like, put your name on everything that you do, so that if somebody tries to trace it back, it'll be traced back to you.
02What advice would you give to young women entering your industry?
Sometimes you can find jobs that you didn't think that you would be qualified for. So you have to look outside the box a little bit. I came from working at a restaurant, and I never thought I would be qualified to work at a hospital.
03What are the biggest challenges or opportunities in your field right now?
There's definitely room for growth. There's a lot of changes. The challenges would be the changes. There's a lot of changes currently happening, always happening. We're always so it's basically like constant change.
04What values are most important to you in your work and personal life?
For work, you need to respect your time, value your type of person. Like, as far as asking to work over, short notice, things like that, being on time to meetings. In my personal life, I value family, really, above everything else.
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