Our 2024 summer interns have arrived!
Over the course of 10 weeks, 61 students from 35 colleges across the U.S. will join our R&D, manufacturing, marketing, sales and supply chain teams for a hands-on experience.
We’re delighted to welcome you to KDP and look forward to seeing what you will achieve this summer.
I'm truly humbled and grateful for this opportunity. Special shoutout to the great folks in Avenel for welcoming me to the team and preparing me to succeed.
I am excited to be named the first Director of Middle Tennessee State University's Center for Supply Chain Management and Sustainability.
We are working on two exciting programs for the Fall of 2025.
· Synergy-Experience: providing students with real-world experience through internships and an innovative program where students work toward specific curriculum objectives in partnership with a project/work experience at a company.
· Synergy-CollabLab: students collaborate with industry partners to solve real problems. This program brings students and industry partners together to analyze and solve challenges to find applicable and implementable
solutions.
Really excited to kick-off our inaugural class of interns! Please share with your networks - fantastic experience to engage with the gaming industry and help drive improvements within supply chain. Thanks Natalie Dominguez and Brian Estell for leading this effort! #supplychainmanagement#internships#supplychain
Kicking off my 4th season of campus recruitment with some exciting news! Here in Las Vegas at our Light & Wonder headquarters we are launching a Summer Supply Chain Internship Program for 2025, offering a unique chance to gain hands-on experience in a manufacturing/supply chain setting. Plus, this Fall we are opening applications for our 3rd cohort of the Finance Leadership Development Program which will begin in July 2025.
Ready to make an impact and shape your future? Stay tuned!
#LNW#Gaming#campusrecruitment#talentprograms#Careergrowth
Preparing to start my summer internship next week at Rent-A-Center fulfilling a supply chain role at the company. I am excited to use skills learned in my many supply chain classes I have already taken at the University of Arkansas. #SupplyChainU#WaltonSupplyChain
What do Amazon, General Electric and PWFAS have in common?
They all collaborate with universities. It’s not just major corporations who are benefiting from strategic relationships with institutions of higher education, early-stage smaller companies can cultivate these relationships too. Generally, universities embrace these strategic relationships as they provide internship and employment opportunities for their students. Faculty members, students, alumni, and the businesses all share knowledge and provide networking opportunities that create mutual competitive advantages.
PWFAS Family Archive Services is proud to have created a close relationship with The University of North Alabama (UNA) whereby each entity benefits from the resources and expertise of the other. We offer valuable opportunities for students to gain real world experience through internships, while in return, the University provides access to thought leadership, knowledge, expertise, and emerging talent. We would like our shared commitment to the local community to be an example of what can be achieved when small businesses engage with their local institutions of higher education.
On a recent visit to UNA Philip Warner met with Brian Dempsey, Associate Professor of History and Chiong-Yiao Chen, Professor of Art to discuss further collaboration with their departments.
We want to take a moment to recognize our 2024 US intern class and thank them for their dedication and excellence this summer. We are excited to have them with us and appreciate their ongoing contributions to the firm!
President Auto-Bake Serpentine, Middleby Bakery Global Industrial Sweet Goods Category Manager, Middleby Bakery Emerging Innovations Advocate, Middleby Worldwide Office Leader for SE Asia, wEU, eEU, nEU, and S Asia
Brooklyn McCally love seeing your updates! I confess that I am a data and math nerd, so this topic is dear to my heart! While most decisions are made with very emotional and subjective processes, the BEST decisions are formulated with data. The WHY should always be rooted in clear data, NOT because it feels right OR because last time it/we failed. Data provides the ROOT of the decision BUT ALSO the structure and management matrix for the execution process to guide us along the way to successful implementation.
This is a key point as we begin to deploy AI tools in our decision-making processes. For Auto-Bake's business of high-speed bakery equipment design, MACHINE LEARNING is able to aggregate and analyze large data sets from tens to hundreds of different input points along a production line to capably perform autonomous, incremental adjustments to optimize production in real-time without operator assistance. Successes and failures are evaluated sometimes in milliseconds and immediate adjustments are automatically made. Over a long block of time our process is optimized.
I also love that you are in an environment at Accenture where mentorship with open and transparent dialogue is supported. There is a balance between struggling over an obstacle on your own and knowing when to get immediate help. Taking the data driven example above, if our customer's production line is down, and let's say that line makes $10,000/hr, speed to solution is mission critical. This means if any of our technicians need assistance they know to ask immediately.
However, let's say that you are struggling over how to illustrate a data set in the type of graph that best tells your WHY, do you go to your supervisor immediately or do you use other tools like the HELP function or HOW TO videos from the internet first? PEOPLE are not MACHINES so how we interact with each other requires more than data; we require SOCIAL IQ. If you keep interrupting your supervisor OR best tech resource EVERY time you get stumped:
1) Analytically you are making them less efficient at their job and thus costing the company money.
2) Socially you have become annoying and appear incapable of growing/maturing as a professional.
Stay humble, work hard, and be confident in your persistence. Failure is a product of quitting, and success is a product of many decisions made NOT to quit. Find love in everything that you do, and you will be successful at what you love! I will NEVER quit on YOU, and love you more than you will ever truly know!
Summer is intern season.
But why should that matter to you as a leader?
It means young and (questionably) fashionable college students are wandering the office.
And trying to figure out how to use the printer.
More than that, they’re trying to figure out what they want to do with “the rest of their lives."
While these twenty-somethings want to learn from your company, there’s an opportunity here for you to seek out their insight and perspective.
You can learn from your interns.
The younger generation offers a fresh outlook on life and work.
They’re eager, wise, and have more to offer than just an afternoon coffee run.
In fact, they could be in charge one day.
Here’s my challenge to you this summer: Take your interns out to lunch.
Stay curious,
ask them questions,
and be open to their worldview and feedback.
Most importantly, pick up the bill.
Summer is intern season, but the real opportunity is for you to be a student.
Are you interested in learning more about the NASPO Internship Program? Listen to the new NASPO Internship Experience Mini-Series State Member episodes to uncover why states choose to participate and the benefits that this program can bring to your state! https://hubs.ly/Q02hs65g0#ThePulsePodcast
Part 1 - Will Camp, Michigan
Will Camp, Supplier Relations Manager, discusses his office's process in hiring interns, the day-to-day experiences of an intern in Michigan, and the significant contributions they make to various processes.
Part 2 - David O'Neal and Jody Cleven, North Carolina
David O'Neal, Chief Procurement Officer, and Jody Cleven, Chief Learning Officer, shed light on North Carolina's strategies to attract talent. Discover how the state keeps NASPO interns engaged and equipped with essential tools for their future endeavors.
Part 3 - Sorraia Tavares, Massachusetts
Sorraia Tavares, Operations Services Division, reflects on her experience working with a NASPO intern. She shares the impact interns have had on her office and provides insights into the qualities of a successful intern.
Thank you, Jeffrey, for the great post!
Attention Indiana employers:
The Indiana Economic Development Corporation Workforce & Talent Team is excited to launch the IEDC Micro-Internship Pilot Program. This initiative supports the early career hiring needs of Indiana companies, providing an innovative way to recruit students and recent graduates from all Indiana colleges and universities at no cost to your organization. This program will benefit early stage, small, medium, large, existing, expanding, and new companies in Indiana.
The foundation of this program are Micro-Internships, short-term, project-based work experiences that typically require between 10 and 40 hours of work by the student. While our students are excited to demonstrate their skills as they complete these assignments, you gain a flexible, low-risk way to build a strong early career talent pipeline.
Through this program, Indiana employers can:
-Lift their employer brand with students across Indiana universities and colleges
-Highlight the exciting roles and growth paths at your company
-Create a future-ready early career hiring pipeline
-Showcase the rewarding careers available within Indiana
The IEDC Micro-Internship Pilot Program is open to Indiana employers and students or recent graduates from all post-secondary institutions across Indiana, available while funding lasts.
To learn more, you're invited to participate in an informational webinar on Thursday, September 12th at Noon EDT / 11:00 AM CDT. Register at https://lnkd.in/gTv4BDrq
We’ll cover how to maximize this opportunity to enhance your recruitment strategy and build a stronger talent pipeline. Don’t miss out on this chance to learn how Micro-Internships can make a significant impact on your hiring process.
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As a graduate of Indiana University Bloomington and a member of the Dean's Advisory Council at Purdue University I am especially proud to share an incredible program just launched by the Indiana Economic Development Corporation!
This initiative, 100% FUNDED BY THE IEDC, helps Indiana's employers recruit college students and recent grads from across the state for full-time roles, summer internships, and other professional opportunities. This includes driving more applicants, assessing skills, engaging students with specific geographic ties, skills, grad dates...
In fact, this program was designed and spearheaded by the IEDC's Tony Denhart based upon his own experiences leading University Recruiting at GE.
Beyond creating an amazing talent pipeline, it also helps create equitable pathways from college-to-career and aligns to the work being done by Indiana's post-secondary institutions to support students and communities.
I hope you can join us next week to learn more about this program!
https://lnkd.in/e4V9g2XC
Direct Sales & Distribution Manager Valle de México
3moI think it's time to invite Mexico, why not? Peñafiel group is waiting for you... 😉