Is having a customs brokers license a good thing to have in your back pocket? Name a time where a license or a degree helped you get a leg up during your career.

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I’ll actually say something that happened a while back. We were interviewing someone with a brokers license in their back pocket. They told us that they only got their license since it was fun!! we couldn’t believe it!

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