Intern to Full-Time Feature: A Q&A with alumnus Jacob Schmitt

Name: Jacob Schmitt Graduation Year: 2017 Major: Psychology CFS Class: Business Field Studies during the Fall Quarter of 2016 Employer: Education Funding Partners Q: When talking with your employer about the full-time position, how did you initiate the conversation and when did you initiate it? A: I actually was not the one to initiate the conversation. Nearing the end of…

Featured Alum: Kaasha Benjamin

Name: Kaasha Benjamin CFS Concentration & Year: Legal Field Studies- Spring 2012 Internship: John Howard Association- DOJJ intern Major /Minor: Political Science/Business Institutions Graduation Year: 2012 Current Position: School: University of Pittsburgh School of Law- 3rd yr. law student Job: Federal Home Loan Bank of Pittsburgh- Legal Intern Describe your CFS internship and how it…

Featured Alum: Joanna Tang

Name: Joanna Tang CFS Concentration & Year: Business Field Studies (2010) Internship: Goldman Sachs Asset Management Major(s): Political Science and Economics Graduation Year: 2011 Current Position: Strategy and Sales Operations Manager – Signpost Describe your CFS internship and how it helped you either in interviews, job opportunities or graduate school applications? My internship at Goldman…

Featured Alum: Rozmin Ajanee

Name: Rozmin Ajanee CFS Concentration & Year: Business Field Studies (2009) Internship: JP Morgan Major/Minor(s): Communication Studies/ BIP, Political Science Graduation Year: 2011 Current Position: Private Equity Associate – Sterling Partners Describe your CFS internship and how it helped you either in interviews, job opportunities or graduate school applications? My CFS internship played a significant…

Featured Alum: Miles Howell

Name: Miles Howell CFS Concentration & Year: Business Field Studies (Winter 2011) Internship: Public Finance Investment Banking Intern, Loop Capital Markets Major: Economics Graduation Year: 2012 Current Position: Business Analyst – Ad Ops, Advertising.com Describe your CFS experience The CFS program guided me along every step of the internship search process, helping me build my…

Featured Alum: Andy Jones

Name: Andy Jones CFS Concentration & Year: Field Studies in the Modern Workplace (Fall 2012) Internship: Goldman Sachs Private Wealth Management Major /Minor: History/BIP Graduation Year: 2013 Current Position: Dropbox Rotation Program Describe your CFS internship and how it helped you either in interviews, job opportunities or graduate school applications? Going through the interview process for CFS…

Featured Alum: Elizabeth Abramson

Name: Elizabeth Abramson CFS Concentration & Year: Business Field Studies (Summer 2011) and Modern Workplace (Winter 2012) Internship: Vivaki (marketing consulting) and LiquidThread (marketing) Major /Minor: Psychology/Business Institutions Graduation Year: March 2012 Current Position: Student at Loyola University Chicago School of Law. After graduating from Northwestern I worked for 2.5 years at a boutique litigation consulting firm in…

Featured Alum: Dan Niemiec

Name: Dan Niemiec CFS Concentration & Year: BFS, Winter 2010 Internship: Blue Canyon Partners Major /Minor: Economics/IMC Graduation Year: 2011 Current Position: Manager of Operations at Western Golf Association- Evans Scholars Association Describe your CFS internship and how it helped you either in interviews, job opportunities or graduate school applications? My position entailed working with senior consultants at the…

Featured Alum: Levi Mele

Name: Levi Mele CFS Concentration & Year: Spring 2013 Internship: Marshall Associates Major /Minor: Social Policy Graduation Year: 2013 Current Position: District Manager, ALDI   Describe your CFS internship and how it helped you either in interviews, job opportunities or graduate school applications? My CFS internship at Marshall Associates was an excellent opportunity to grow…

Featured Alum: Evan Bakker

Name: Evan Bakker CFS Concentration & Year: BFS, Winter 2013 Internship: LiquidThread Major /Minor: Philosophy/BIP Graduation Year: 2013   Current Position: Research Associate at Corporate Insight      in NY Describe your CFS internship and how it helped you either in interviews, job opportunities or graduate school applications? I was an intern in the brand and entertainment…

Featured Alum: Hina Mahmood

Name: Hina Mahmood CFS Concentration & Year: BFS, Summer 2010  Internship: Goldman Sachs Major /Minor: Economics/BIP Graduation Year: 2012 Current Position: Brand Specialist at Amazon   Describe your CFS internship and how it helped you either in interviews, job opportunities or graduate school applications? My CFS internship showed me what I did and didn’t want to do in…

Featured Alum: Anthony Koval

Name: Anthony Koval CFS Concentration/Year: Business Field Studies 2008 Internship: Smith Barney Major /Minor: B.A., Economics/Business Institutions Graduation Year: 2010 Current Position: Advisor, CVS Caremark Describe your CFS internship and how it helped you either in interviews, job opportunities or graduate school applications? I interned at Smith Barney, working on a Private Wealth Management team. Some of the projects…