Learning through Collaborative Projects

Name: Darya Daneshmand Year: Junior Major: Neuroscience, Journalism Minor: Segal Design Certificate CFS Class: Field Studies in the Modern Workplace Employer: Treatment Magazine When I began my CFS internship at Treatment Magazine, I was excited to be given the freedom to contribute in several different realms with a small and highly collaborative group of people….

Valuable Lessons in Sales and Marketing

Name: Julia Smith Year: Junior Major: Economics Minor: Legal Studies CFS Class: Business Field Studies Employer: Expansive Workplace For my Spring 2021 CFS internship I worked as a marketing and sales intern for a coworking company, Expansive Workspace (formally Novel Coworking). As a junior applying to CFS, I did not know what career I wanted…

Learning Unexpected Lessons

Name: Andrew Obstler Year: Junior Major: Economics Minor: Spanish CFS Class: Business Field Studies Employer: Packed with Purpose In Spring 2021, I had the opportunity to work as a Business Operations intern for a small start-up called Packed with Purpose. Packed with Purpose provides gift baskets both directly to the consumer as well as custom…

Above All, Flexibility

Name: Griffin Lane Year: Junior Major: Economics Minor: Business Institutions CFS Class: Business Field Studies Employer: HBR Consulting If 2020 has taught us anything, it’s the importance of flexibility. Working in an entirely remote environment is an experience that I will not soon forget, and this in conjunction with the CFS program further helped demonstrate…

Exploring the Keys to a Successful Career Path

Name: Jackson Vaught Year: Junior Major: Economics CFS Class: Business Field Studies Employer: ATOMS One thing that really resonated with me from the CFS program is the idea of not knowing what you want to do yet is okay at this age. Specifically, Mark Fastabend’s guest lecture exemplified this point to me. Mark spent a…

Learning to Ask for Help

Name: Chris Sherk Year: Junior Major: Economics Minor: Business Institutions CFS Class: Business Field Studies Employer: Woodland Coast Partners During my time in the CFS program, I had the opportunity to listen to and learn from many great guest speakers. While common themes and lessons emerged in the lectures, each speaker always shared specific, memorable…

Fulfillment in Working for a Great Cause

Name: Katarina Guerrero Year: Junior Major: Economics, International Studies CFS Class: Business Field Studies Employer: SafeStamp For my winter 2021 internship, I worked as an analyst for SafeStamp, a startup on track to revolutionize the anticounterfeiting industry with a glowing packaging icon that utilizes advanced nanotechnology. This was my first professional internship experience. I was…

Hesitant, but Now I Get It: Networking

Name: Eva Jacobs Year: Junior Major: Economics and Psychology Minor: Business Institutions CFS Class: Business Field Studies Employer: Accelerated Growth Advisors Early in the quarter, we read an article as a class called How to Build Your Network. The subject of networking has never been a particularly comfortable one to me, as I have never…

Advantages of a Remote Internship

Name: Juliet Jacques Year: Junior Majors: English Literature and Political Science CFS Class: Legal Field Studies Employer: McGuireWoods Consulting During the winter of 2021, I interned at the Chicago office of McGuireWoods Consulting, which is a government relations and consulting firm. I worked with the Illinois state government lobbying team, which has clients in a…

Narrowing Down Career Interests

Name: Noah Scantlebury Year: Junior Major: Political Science Minor: Economics CFS Class: Business Field Studies Employer: Axxum Consulting For my Fall 2020 CFS internship, I worked as an analyst for Axxum Consulting LLC., a human capital and organizational strategy firm. Going into this experience, I was very interested in pursuing a career in consulting. I…

Making Meaningful Contributions

Name: Benjamin Stuart Year: Junior Major: Economics Minor: Business Institutions CFS Class: Business Field Studies Employer: Shore Capital Partners I worked for Shore Capital Partners as a part of my CFS experience. The biggest lesson I learned is that you just have to put the time in if you want to build strong relationships, ask…

Experiencing Interviews with CFS

Name: Anna Wang Year: Junior Major: Economics Minor: Business Institutions CFS Class: Business Field Studies Employer: Accelerated Growth As a sophomore who is new to the recruiting process, having CFS early on in Fall 2020 was very helpful for me in many ways, one of them being that I was able to go through a…