Thank you to my Fall 2016 Interns!

First Row: Zareen Fazleabas, Emeline Grace, Emily Matyas, Kaitlyn Moran, Samantha Usavage, Analise Linton, Erin Thal

Second Row: Dinesh Suresh (Summer 2016), Andrea Andric, Emily Myers, Carrie Lin, Michelle Li, Aaisha Bhuiyan, Katherine Kaminsky, Kate McGrath

Last Row: Zachary Bush, Kevin Chow, Justin Massoumi, Alex Cramer, Ryan Wagner, Michael Brooks (Summer 2016)

Students in our internship play a key role in Smeal Alumni Career Services' mission to reach out and connect with recruiters and alumni who visit campus to recruit and/or volunteer their time. Additionally, our office seeks to connect and share information through online platforms such as LinkedIn, Brazen (online networking) and Zoom (webinars).

Every semester the interns are given challenges and always strive to meet goals and help our office. The students take on this opportunity as well as being full time students, many with additional activities in fraternities, sororities and business organizations. 

At the wrap-up meeting, we discussed what the students learned from the experience by going around the room and sharing knowledge while building a slide. Also, the head interns are responsible for compiling stats about what was accomplished by the team for the semester. Look to see who won special awards!

The Smeal Alumni Career Services Interns completed the following:

Total Number of LinkedIn Research Posts Written: 3,491

Total Number of Career Corner Posts Written: 496

Total Number of Alumni Jobs pulled into SmealConnect: 146

Total Number of Alumni Connections Made at Career Fairs: 119

Total Number of Recruiter Connections: 257

Total Number of Career Fairs and Live and Online Alumni Events participated in: 13

Total number of State of Mind Posts: 29

Total Number of Smeal Students interviewed for Spring 2017: 35

Total Number of Smeal Students hired for Spring 2017: 19

Special Awards:

Social Media Interns: Most Posts Written: Shared by Emily Matyas and Zach Bush (Did you notice the total number of research posts written, wow!)

Smeal Representative Interns: Most Connections Made at the Career Fairs: Andrea Andric (Andrea will be back as a head intern. Congrats!)

Head Interns -Above and Beyond Award: Analise Linton for going an extra mile to develop her leadership skills! She really helped the students learn time management by enforcing deadlines. On her own, she also attended a leadership session which was given by Smeal!

Fall 2016 Slide:

Here are some activities and internships our head interns and interns will be up to in the future!

Head/Associate Interns

Zareen Fazleabas - Head Intern, Smeal Representative Program

Next year, Zareen plans on concentrating her major. She will continue working on finding an internship for the summer, hopefully on the West Coast or outside Pennsylvania to experience something new. She is also looking forward to going back home to Sri Lanka in the summer to see her family again.

Erin Thal - Head Intern, Smeal Representative Program

Erin will be working this summer as a Strategic Sourcing Intern for American Electric Power in Columbus, Ohio. Next semester, she will be continuing her study in Supply Chain and Information Systems.

Emeline Grace - Head Intern, Social Media

Emeline Grace will be graduating next semester with a degree in Finance. She is planning to work in the fields of finance and operations. Further down the road, she plans to pursue a master’s degree in Applied Analytics.

Analise Linton - Head Intern, Social Media

Analise plans to continue to work towards a summer internship in the coming months. She also is planning on taking accounting classes and baking classes over the summer. She is looking forward to potentially working within Smeal again in the future.

Kathleen McGrath - Head Intern, Social Media

Kathleen is pursuing either a marketing internship or volunteering with the National Park Service this summer. She hopes to apply her skills and gain knowledge in corporate social responsibility and community engagement.

Justin Massoumi - Associate Intern

Starting in January, Justin will begin a spring co-op with IBM working as a Financial Analyst. At the conclusion of his co-op, he will be interning at Ford Motor Company in their IT Intern program. Justin will be returning to University Park next fall and will be graduating in December 2017.

Interns, Smeal Representative Program

Andrea Andric: Andrea Andric is currently a sophomore in Smeal. After the end of this semester, she will be declaring her major as Finance with a focus in Financial Management. Next spring Andrea plans to study abroad in Vienna, Austria, before declaring her minor in International Business. She would like to pursue a career in consulting after graduating.

Aaisha Bhuiyan: Aaisha is on track to graduate in the summer and join Amazon as an Area Manager by August.

Kevin Chow: Kevin is looking forward to taking his major classes in the coming semesters in order to prepare for future actuarial exams. He is also excited to be a 2017 Summer Actuarial Intern at Prudential Financial, where he will be eager to gain firsthand experience of an actuary's role in an insurance company.

Alexander Cramer: Alexander is a second semester junior pursuing an internship in wealth management for the summer. He will graduate in the fall of 2017 and plans on becoming a financial advisor or financial analyst.

Michelle Li: Michelle is interning this summer with L'Oréal in their supply chain program. Between graduating and starting full time, she plans to travel around Europe and Africa for two months to experience different cultures and adventures!

Carrie Lin: Carrie is currently planning on taking more classes over the summer and working towards getting a summer internship or externship! She is looking forward to starting her major classes next year, too.

Samantha Usavage: Samantha is studying abroad in Thailand in the spring and has a co-op with Unilever in the fall. She’s hoping to gain insight into the implications of international business. After graduation, she hopes to work in an area of supply chain related to sourcing sustainably.

Ryan Wagner: After graduation, Ryan will be joining the team at Deloitte in Pittsburgh as an Advisory Associate.

Interns, Social Media

Zachary Bush: Zachary Bush is a sophomore from Philadelphia who plans on majoring in Supply Chain & Information Systems. He is passionate about fitness, politics, and technology, and hopes to work somewhere that emphasizes sustainability.

Katherine Kaminsky: Katherine currently plans to major in Finance and minor in English and Economics. This summer, she is studying abroad for 8 weeks. She has her eyes set on the media and publishing industry for future job prospects.

Emily Matyas: Emily is looking forward to continuing her internship as a Marketing and Digital Media Intern with a local startup, Twenty Over Ten, that helps financial advisors with their website design and content. Additionally, she is excited to spend her last semester of college hanging out with friends and preparing for life after college!

Kaitlyn Moran: Kaitlyn is working to get a marketing internship for this upcoming summer and planning her trip abroad to France for next spring! She is extremely excited to be getting more experience in her major and exploring the world.

Emily Myers: Emily is excited about officially being in Smeal next semester. This upcoming summer she will be interning for UPS in their Supply Chain department in Atlanta, Georgia.

THANK YOU FOR ALL YOUR HARD WORK AND BEST OF LUCK!

This is our mantra which, by the way, was created by one of my summer interns in 2015:

"A Great Hire Starts with a Strong Foundation!" All the interns would make great hires and many of them already have company internships!