He will be making over $50,000 a year plus benefits starting September 2006.
Greg Turner ’05, like other seniors in the Dolan School of Business, was offered a job at Deloitte accounting firm, one the of Big Four firms, after landing an internship there last summer when the firm came to recruit students from Fairfield University.
“I’m going to Jamaica to work at my old high school” said Turner, who will be teaching accounting for a year before he takes his position as an auditor at Deloitte.
His recruiter was the one who gave him the position, based on the evaluations written by people he worked with over the summer.
He referred to the summer internship as “a wonderful experience” which is why he chose to sign with the firm.
On the other hand, some students are holding out on job offers. Chris McGee ’05, a double major in finance and marketing, declined an offer from the Operations Department of the UBS Investment Bank because they only gave him one month to decide.
“I was not completely sold and didn’t know whether that was the career path I was going to take post-graduation,” said McGee, who, like Turner, had an internship with the company over the summer.
“I have really tried to stress the importance of not selling myself short and looking into all possible options before making a final decision” he said.
For students who haven’t had job offers yet, the Career Planning Center has been a vital part of their planning.
Caitlin Winters ’05, who is in the middle of a second round of interviews with Ernst and Young, McGladrey and Pullen, and Pricewaterhouse Coopers, a few of the bigger accounting firms, said “the interviewing process was quick and easy, and the Career Planning Center was extremely helpful with editing my resume and keeping me up to date about application deadlines.”
Robyn Atkachunas ’05, also in the second stage of interviews with several firms, said that “the school has been very helpful in my search.”
“I was able to apply for these jobs through Career Planning’s E-Recruiting site online. All of these recruiters come to Fairfield University for the first level of interviews,” said Atkachunas who thought the website was very helpful
Dennis S. Amrine, associate director of the Career Planning Center, said that financial services tend to recruit employees earlier because they are on a more “rigid time frame.”
However, the spring career fair, on February 10, is more diverse and draws a wider range of companies and industries than the fall fair. This year over 600 invitations were sent out to companies inviting them to the fair, Amrine said.
Amrine said that alumni were an important part of the process. The Career Planning Center helps students by “networking through alumni” to help “secure internships” and “get resumes in the right hands,” said Amrine.
Other tools offered by the Career Planning Center are mock interviews with professional recruiters in which students can receive feedback on how to improve their skill, interview workships and different career panels to show students that their “major doesn’t equal their career,” according to Amrine.
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