Internship Fair Brings Employers to PSH Photo by Cathie McCormick Musser Jamia Chew-Gamer and Nicole Berhard of Shippensburg University By Cathie McCormick Musser Capital Times Staff Writer Mid-state employers and stu dents from area colleges crowd ed the PSH campus Nov. 4 for the 1999 Capital Region Intemship/Co-op Fair. The fair, sponsored by 10 col leges and universities in the Central Pennsylvania region, connects interested students with employers offering internships. According to Karl Martz, Coordinator of Career Services for PSH, 91 employers and 447 students attended this year’s fair. While students from each spon soring institution attended the fair, “the majority of students were ours,” Martz said. The Capital Union Building housed the Internship Fair exhibits. Rows of tables decorated with Penn State blue helium bal- * Olmsted. Plaza Barber Shop Jamesway Plaza NO. 10 944-9364 Nexxus Products * Shop Hours # Monday- Thursday 8 am to 7 pm Friday- Saturday 8 am to 2 pm L Closed Sunday < attended the Intern Fair. loons lined the CUB gymnasium. Signs, posters and brochures introduced students to the employers’ business and corpo rate culture. Some displays were slick and sophisticated. Others were simple. Smiling employers gathered resumes and handshakes from students who looked a little uncomfortable in business attire. Wendy Harrell, Director of Special Events and Marketing for Journal Publications, has had success with the fair in the past. She considers internships a good prelude to employment. “We’ve hired three people in the past two years who started as interns,” Harrell said. Positions filled by recent interns include graphic designer and circulation manager. “There’s always a new position opening,” Harrell added. She hoped to recruit three or four interns this year, but admit ted they usually end up with two. Albert Pye of BioLogic agrees with Harrell. According to Pye, internships are a “good chance to slowly look at somebody” who is interested in working for the company. Pye’s company researches and produces natural biological insecti cides. Interns for BioLogic “learn what real research is,” Pye said. Although pleased with the fair in general, Pye was disappointed by omissions in the Employer Guidebook distributed to intern candidates. The Employers by Major sec tion of the handout did not list BioLogic under the heading of biology. Pye worried that quali fied students would miss his exhibit. Students huddled at the west end of the gymnasium seemed to be planning their strategies. Nicole Berhard and Jamia Chew- Gamer of Shippensburg University were reviewing their progress. The pair drove 45 minutes to attend the fair. Both women are speech communication majors and had been encouraged to attend the event by their advisor. Berhard left resumes with the Dauphin County Public Def ender’s staff and representatives from Hershey Foods. She is pursu ing a career in Human Resources. Chew-Gamer had discussed a marketing internship with Enterprise Rent-a-Car. Both women were pleased with the fair and looked forward to completing an internship. While Karl Martz did receive a few complaints, the over whelming response to the fair was positive. “Both the students and employers were pleased,” Martz said. The great pleasure in life is doing what people sag you cannot do. Walter Bagehot HELP SVANTE Help Relocate Collections Into Penn State Harrisburg 9 s “Library of the Future" Hours: Dates: December 15 - January 4 Rate: Contact: William B. Meyer, Inc. Library Relocation Division Phone: Email: It is only to be understood. Brand New Bam to 6pm Monday - Saturday (excluding holidays) $B.OO per hour Stratford, CT 800-873-6393 x 229 boverton@meyerlibrary.com Wendy Harrell of Journal Publications. Nothing in life is to be feared. Marie Curie
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