Students urged to Take Unpaid Internships
Abdalla Straker
Issue date: 4/13/09 Section: Features
SC State celebrated its 37th annual which
culminated on Friday with an Honors and Awards function recognizing the accomplishments of the best and brightest business students at the institution.
A total of 95 students were honored this year for having GPA's above 3.0 in addition to other scholastic accomplishments.
Attendees also had the opportunity to hear from Anthony T. Grant, CEO of Grant Business Strategies, on the topic "From Wall Street to Main Street and Side Street." Mr. Grant who spent more than twenty years working for Bank of America Corporation, is an alumnus of South Carolina State University.
In his address Grant elaborated extensively on the current economic crisis and its beginnings in bad mortgages. He used his years of experience in Corporate America to show exactly what took place, and echoed much of what our professors had been teaching for the last two semesters.
He then went on to speak more specifically to the students assembled about the tough job market that university graduates are emerging into. He described the even more competitive environment that the recession had created for those emerging into the workforce and urged students to take unpaid internships if they had to, in order to get the experience that they needed to get to where they wanted.
He also outlined Health care, Education and Green Careers as areas that were still doing well despite the bad economy, and encouraged students to explore these areas.
His address ended with scriptural references that showed that no matter what was going on around us in the world, that God would always take care of his people. He encouraged all assembled to have hope and faith that things would improve in the economy.
culminated on Friday with an Honors and Awards function recognizing the accomplishments of the best and brightest business students at the institution.
A total of 95 students were honored this year for having GPA's above 3.0 in addition to other scholastic accomplishments.
Attendees also had the opportunity to hear from Anthony T. Grant, CEO of Grant Business Strategies, on the topic "From Wall Street to Main Street and Side Street." Mr. Grant who spent more than twenty years working for Bank of America Corporation, is an alumnus of South Carolina State University.
In his address Grant elaborated extensively on the current economic crisis and its beginnings in bad mortgages. He used his years of experience in Corporate America to show exactly what took place, and echoed much of what our professors had been teaching for the last two semesters.
He then went on to speak more specifically to the students assembled about the tough job market that university graduates are emerging into. He described the even more competitive environment that the recession had created for those emerging into the workforce and urged students to take unpaid internships if they had to, in order to get the experience that they needed to get to where they wanted.
He also outlined Health care, Education and Green Careers as areas that were still doing well despite the bad economy, and encouraged students to explore these areas.
His address ended with scriptural references that showed that no matter what was going on around us in the world, that God would always take care of his people. He encouraged all assembled to have hope and faith that things would improve in the economy.
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