L'Oreal exec tells Gen Z to be that person who grabs their manager's coffee-instead of making you look junior, she says it can get you noticed | Fortune

""I really wanted to have time to get to meet this incredibly cool perfumer," she recalls to Fortune, adding that she went early to the meeting with the mindset that she simply wanted to support her team."

""If you're the one that is going to capture the actions from the meeting and the next steps, and you're listening and you're observing that isn't that isn't necessarily a negative," Kramer explains. "You are in the room and you are absorbing how those points are coming to be. You're developing the skills of inference.""

""So just make sure, when you're discrediting some of those more small tasks, that you're not discrediting their value they bring to you and your learning. I think about that all the time.""

Small tasks such as fetching coffee, taking notes, and organizing lunches often signal junior status but also create access to meetings and senior colleagues. Being present in meetings while capturing actions and next steps enables observation of how decisions form and develops inference skills. Early-career roles in fragrance and beauty environments can turn support tasks into networking and learning opportunities that open advancement pathways. The practical advice is to accept available tasks now to gain exposure and learning, while remaining strategic about career progression later and not dismissing the tasks' value.

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