Oslovenya Stephanie: Adaptive in the Digital Era
By: Azwa Safrina
Tags: Biography, Dentistry, Digital Economy, Gen Z

Oslovenya Stephanie Caroline, also known as Venya, is an undergraduate student in the Dentistry Major at the University of Indonesia. Besides her college, she embarked on a talent pool on Instagram called Clique Management that has become a profession she currently pours enormous efforts and mind to. Venya has managed to conduct her two different occupations at the moment. She is a representation for the young generation that having aspirations for a professional specialized career at the same time also adapting with the digital economy is possible and can be executed successfully.

Since a minor, Venya has dreamed of having an established type of work due to the environment she grew up in. Subsequently, she decided dentistry is the field of study in medicine that she wants to pursue prior to choosing her mathematics and natural science major in SMA Negeri 8 Jakarta. Her strong dedication and hard work during high school has escorted her to get into the University of Indonesia through the university’s invitation.

The idea that first emerged when Venya wanted to establish this talent pool is originated in how she saw the economic setback because of the pandemic. She aspires to widen the job vacancy for people that must stay at home during these times. Encouraged by videos that she watched during her leisure, she learns how to start businesses in this digital era.

Thereafter, Venya feels suitable in one of the most-wanted jobs in the digital era which is digital marketing, specifically social media marketing (SMM). Digital marketing is the marketing of products or services using digital technologies via the internet, social media, mobile phones, or any other digital medium. For that reason, Clique Management focuses on providing as well as connecting talents and brands for endorsement or paid promotion. Just by running from September, the talent pool at this point already has almost 200 professional talents and have worked with big brands.

It is inevitable that during Venya’s journey for attaining this juncture, she has faced many challenges; time management being the most strenuous. Her way to overcome it is by setting a priority scale and scheduling her activities. Education being a top priority, she consistently finishes her college tasks and giving full concentration in class before doing her duties in Clique Management. For her, being disciplined and committed to the schedules she has made is extremely important owing to the fact that organizing her duties has helped her to finish them with efficient time and energy. Moreover, she emphasized that loving what she does has made it become a pleasure rather than a burden.

Born and raised in this digital era has made Venya becomes an adaptive young person to fit in the trending digital economic occupation. She has a clear ambition for what she wants to be in the future. It is not simply fixated on an established type of work she once thought, yet, it is also not leaving her former dream behind. Living in this era, Venya reckons that believing in ourselves, getting out of our comfort zone, and being brave to experiment with new things will help the young generation maximize their potential and achieve their best life.