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Thomas’ Story
Who is Thomas?

Chanin Goldsmith (Thomas)
Marketing Manager
Hypertrade Consulting Co., Ltd.

Thomas’ Story

As a child growing up in Thailand, I had the chance to be on TV as a young presenter teaching 1-minute English to Thai people. That was my first ever professional experience.

I like being proactive and helping others because it means I can achieve or build something during my spare time, so I joined the Student Union at university during my 1st and 2nd year. For my 3rd and 4th year, with some help from my father (a full-time English Teacher here in BKK), I worked part-time whilst studying and full-time as an English teacher teaching in rural schools during my summer holidays. At which one time, I had a class of over 70 students!

I graduated in 2019 with a BBA and immediately joined a 4-month intensive digital marketing internship with a leading digital marketing agency in Bangkok. It was a completely new experience for me; to be surrounded by amazing and talented people is not as easy as it sounds, and I had to work extra hard to keep up.

My time at the marketing agency inspired me to take a risk and co-founded my digital marketing agency with my father aimed at helping schools in the UK, the USA, and AUS promote and build their online presence. Then came covid-19, and international travel came to a grinding halt.

The pandemic made business very difficult, and I knew that I had to adapt my career path to continue progressing. Because things rarely go as what you plan anyway.

First, I had to manage my outlook on the pandemic from seeing it as a challenge to an opportunity. An opportunity to take this time to learn online courses, an opportunity to join a new working environment and discover the corporate infrastructure, and an opportunity to sharpen and test my skills with a team. And with that, I rediscovered my long-term career path.

I joined Hypertrade in mid-2021 as a digital marketing executive with a clear objective in my head. And Hypertrade is great at acknowledging adapting, and developing employees’ talents because now, fast-forward nine months later, and I am a marketing manager working on new and exciting projects with a great team to support me.

My advice for young people who’re facing challenges due to the pandemic is that it’s all about your own outlook. You are not the only one facing this problem, the whole world is.

The key is consistency and never giving up just because you failed in your first few tries.

As they say, the journey to success is through multiple failures, it’s all about how you bounce back, how you learn from your failure/mistakes and adapt what you learn. Also, google is a great help, I’m 99.7% sure that someone else out there is facing the same problem as you are, and there are communities you can join to discuss related topics and ask for help.

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