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Leroy Baker - Road Trips to the Real World Opportunities are endless when attending a college or university.  Some opportunities require work and searching while others present themselves effortlessly.    For one Lock Haven University student, a career opportunity landed right in his inbox.  Leroy Baker, freshman business major at Lock Haven University, received an e-mail from Career Services promoting a program titled “Road Trip to the Real World.”   “Road Trip to the Real World” is sponsored by the Eastern Association of Colleges and Employers (EACE). EACE develops educational programs and services that aim to help students make the transition into professional careers while also working with businesses that seek to hire college students and alumni.   Baker chose to participate in this one-day, free program in Boston. He made the seven-hour trip to Boston in January of this year to take advantage of the seminars that were offered. This particular program in “Road Trip to the Real World” gave students the opportunity to learn about life on Wall Street.    Students worked closely with employers of several financial investment companies to learn about investments and growth on Wall Street. A company called State Street played a large role in the program.  State Street is one of the world's leading providers of financial services to institutional investors.    Read more

Samuel Frances-Barrot - The Washington Center The Washington Center is a nonprofit organization that provides students, from hundreds of colleges and universities throughout the world, the opportunity to be challenged, to learn and to intern in Washington, D.C.  Many of The Washington Center’s alumni now successfully work in leadership positions in the public, private and nonprofit sectors in the United States and abroad.  Dr. Stan Berard has been the liaison for The Washington Center at Lock Haven University since 2004. “The program is great for networking and making solid connections,” said Dr. Berard.  He advises students of all majors to apply for The Washington Center’s internships since every major has a policy that applies to it.  Dr. Berard handles the application process that takes place on campus.  Most of the process is now completed online, but students need to be prepared for all of the requirements of the program including, providing a writing sample, having a professional resume, and the interview process that takes place following acceptance.   Read more

Matt Adams -  Merrill Lynch   One Lock Haven University student has been familiar with the process of stock exchange since he was in middle school. Even then he knew his calling in the business world. Matt Adams, senior at Lock Haven University, spent the month of August interning at Merrill Lynch in York, Pa. Adams is a finance and management major at Lock Haven and was one of 3000 out of the 9000 applicants in the nation to be accepted by Merrill Lynch for an internship position.  Read more

Kara Hunt - New Pig Corporation Many college students work part time jobs and know what it's like to be bossed around.  But Kara Hunt got tot spend her summer learning what it's like to be on the other end, as a manager dealing with employee problems and working with managers from other businesses.  Hunt, a senior Business Administration major, worked at New Pig Corporation this summer in the corporate sales department. Read more Jessica Douglas - American-Turkish Council At a time in which the economy is one of the top concerns on Americans’ minds, one student got to work with international trade relations this summer, in hopes that good relationships with other countries will help our economy in a positive way. Jessica Douglas, a senior, worked as an intern with the American-Turkish Council (ATC) this summer in Washington, D.C. The ATC is a non-profit business association that is, according to the website, “dedicated to enhancing the promotion of U.S.-Turkish commercial, defense, technology and cultural relations.” Members of the ATC include Fortune 500, U.S. and Turkish companies, multinationals, nonprofit organizations and individuals with an interest in U.S.-Turkish relations. Douglas was placed in the program by The Washington Center for Internships. “I’m really interested in the international business aspect of things, and the relationships between countries and trade. It was pretty much a perfect fit,” she said.  Read more Katie Cloud - Northwestern  Mutual Many students would consider cold calling random people difficult and would view the ‘not-so-nice’ comments that they receive in return, as somewhat discouraging.  Katie Cloud, a senior majoring in Business Administration: Management, said such experiences “teach you how to handle objection and rejections.”  Cloud spent her summer interning with Northwest Mutual located in Philadelphia.  She began her day at 7:15 a.m. and worked between eight and 12 hours per day Mondays through Fridays.  Cloud had all of the responsibilities as a full-time financial representative. She attended meetings daily starting at 10:00 a.m., and attended more meetings and consultations in the afternoon. It was Cloud’s responsibility to build her own client base via phoning during the first few weeks of the summer. Cloud worked on building the client base each day from 8:45 a.m. until her meetings at 10 a.m.   Read more

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