Employer Spotlight: Deloitte

This week’s featured employer is Deloitte, a company who provides audit & assurance, consulting, risk and financial advisory, risk management, tax, and related services to select clients. This week, you may have noticed Smeal’s code of conduct signing in the …

By Susan Mcgrory
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Corporate Partner Spotlight: Altria Group

Altria Group is a Fortune 200 company headquartered in Richmond, Virginia. For more than 180 years, Altria’s companies have built some of the best-known brands in the world – Marlboro, Copenhagen, Skoaland Black & Mild – that today lead their respective categories.

“Our Values are …

By Susan Mcgrory
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Intern Spotlight: Paul Birch

Meet our spotlight intern this week, Paul Birch. Paul is a junior who completed a Liberty Mutual Actuarial Internship in Boston. He secured this internship through the Actuarial Science Career Fair. During his internship Paul learned about life insurance concepts, …

By Susan Mcgrory
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What qualities do you need to work in a startup?

With the number of new companies being founded growing daily all over the world, it’s no wonder that many business school graduates are thinking about joining a startup – a new business specifically designed for rapid growth and scaling. While …

By Antoni Swidlicki
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LinkedIn features you may not be using!

LinkedIn is great way to connect and network with professionals who have similar career interests. Recruiters are quickly moving towards LinkedIn has a key way to source and find candidates for internships and full-time positions. With LinkedIn you can also …

By Sherry Rice
Sherry Rice Director of Professional Development & Programming
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In Unilever’s Radical Hiring Experiment, Resumes Are Out, Algorithms Are In

To diversify its candidate pool, the company relies on software to sort applicants and targets potential hires on their smartphones. See what Smeal student, Jordan Vesey has to say about Unilever’s hiring procedures in an article by the Wall Street Journal.

By Sherry Rice
Sherry Rice Director of Professional Development & Programming
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2 Ways to Create a 1-Line Elevator Pitch (That’ll Make People Want to Keep Talking to You)

I still remember the ice breaker my English teacher kicked off our class with nearly a decade ago. It went like this:

I used to study at [Name of Elementary School]. I now study at [Name of High School]. In …

By Sherry Rice
Sherry Rice Director of Professional Development & Programming
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Be Aware—Avoid Job Scams!

Have you recently received an unsolicited email offering you an opportunity for employment? While it’s likely that you’ll be contacted by many legitimate companies over email, it is also likely that you will be contacted by illegitimate companies/scammers. Here’s what …

By Ashley Rippey
Ashley Rippey Executive Director
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Intern Spotlight: John Hursh

Name: John Hursh

Major: Accounting

Company: Lancaster County Coalition to End Homelessness.

Resources that helped me gain the internship: Connections through community involvement, credentials from studies (had the right major), passion for the cause

“I initially wrote a letter to …

By Susan Mcgrory
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Evaluating Offers

It’s winding down to the end of the semester and interviews are almost done… until the Spring semester. If you’ve had a good semester interviewing and landing a few different internships or jobs, then this week’s blog will come in …

By Priya Samuel
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