Learner to Earner Success Story: Priscila Santiago

As San Mateo Adult School Students gain knowledge, skills, and confidence, they join the work force, advance in their jobs, and engage in volunteer work.  The Learner to Earner page on the San Mateo Adult School website is about their success.  Here's another story in the series.

Having been a pharmacist in Brazil for four years, Priscila Santiago moved to the San Francisco Bay Area August of 2014. This was her first time looking for employment in a country that spoke English.  Having studied English at the University level, she started taking High intermediate grammar classes at San Mateo Adult School and completed the high advanced level in one year. During this time Priscila gave back to the community by working as a volunteer at Mills-Peninsula Hospital in their gift shop. 

In the Spring of 2015, Priscilla took our Silicon Valley Community Foundation sponsored job search class where she went to several Career Fairs and gained the skills required to effectively pursue the job she now holds, pharmacy technician at Walgreens drug store.  Additionally, she's actively pursuing her California pharmacist license.

She feels that the job search class was key to her transitioning to employment. She remarked that through the class she discovered the path she needed to follow in order to have self confidence and complete the pre pharmacist technician employment requirements. She says, "The job search class gave me the support I needed to move forward."

Congratulations Priscila!



Learner to Earner Success Story
Priscila Santiago