I believe that many will doubt my story, but quite by chance, one day while we were drinking our first morning coffee in the Tourist Office and flipping through the daily press, we saw a Promonte job opening, through which they were looking for a PR manager. As a joke, we said 'Let's have one of us sign up to see how we'll do, if all the experience we gained in TOCG is worth anything'. 'Come on Nora' and then we sat down and wrote a CV together. An invitation for an interview soon arrived, and after that a message that I was accepted", says Eleonora Albijanić, about one of the decisive moments in her career, when after seven years, in the spring of 2002, she moved from the Tourism Organization of Montenegro to the company Telenor, then Promonte.
Speaking about how she felt at that moment when she found out that she was accepted, Eleonora says that - she cried.
"After the message, silence and, you won't believe it, crying. But not from happiness, but from sadness, when we realized that we were going to part. Because, after all these years, you conclude that the most important thing is the relationship with the people you work with, with whom you spend more time than with your family," says Albijanić, who is a TO CG, was a PR manager.
That's how the "first set" from Turistička, she says, is still bound by unbreakable ties to this day.
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One of the decisive motives for changing jobs at that time was solving an existential issue.
"From today's position, the position of PR manager is certainly a job that everyone would like - to represent their country, to convince people to come and visit it, because it is one and only, a "wild beauty". However, in that period, neither I nor my husband could solve the existential - housing issue in a state-owned enterprise, nor was there a solution in sight. That's why we decided to take the same step that spring, to look for work in private companies", says Eleonora.
And about how she experienced the transition from a relatively small company to a larger private company, she says that her feelings were mixed.
"I was sad that I left the Tourist Office, but on the other hand I was happy, because they welcomed me in Promonte in a way that made up for that sadness. They gave me the opportunity to fully show what and how much I can do and become recognized for my work in my profession," says Albijanić.
Everything, she says, was different, from the space in which she worked, she only knew two people when she started working, to the budget that was available for the work of the sector, a completely new world in which she quickly adapted and remained in it for almost a decade.
"From pulses to kilowatts"
Since the spring of this year, Eleonora has made the decision to continue her career at EPCG, in Nikšić, after spending almost ten years at Telenor, and she sees this as the second, decisive step in building her career.
"I am a person who likes challenges, likes to give his maximum by working with 100 percent of his capabilities, and that's why I decided to move on in the spring of this year. It is a transition, as my former colleagues would say, "from pulses to kilowatts".
He says, again a new world and many new people.
"However, there was no mourning after leaving Telenor, I believe also because this time I was not forced to move by existential problems, but it was entirely my decision, for the sake of new energy, mine, and I hope also EPCG", says Albijanić , now head of the department for external communication of that company.
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