GE To Choose 40 Students for SU's Leadership at Work Series

Image via Syr.edu/Syracuse UniversityAn original partnership between GE and the Center for Career Services at Syracuse University (Syracuse, New York, USA) has created an innovative leadership development series entitled "Leadership at Work."

This four session series (2/4 (evening), 2/5 (evening), 2/19 (evening), 2/20 (day) will include leadership development sessions on Facilitation Skills, Social Styles, Teams, Team Building, and Presentation Skills and will be taught by GE leaders.

Each evening session (2/4, 2/5 & 2/19), will run from 5:30-9:00pm. The Saturday session (2/20) will run from 8:30am~3:00pm. All sessions will provide meals and dress is business casual. The series will culminate with a certificate of completion and a graduation.

There is a difference between doing things right and doing the right things.

Students at Syracuse University often get involved with leadership opportunities in order to do the right things. They become excellent student leaders who embrace the idea of change leadership and make enormous contributions to the Syracuse University campus.

The void is determining how to translate that experience into succeeding in an increasingly complex and diverse world of work. This year General Electric (GE) plans to help 40 selected students translate their experience into action.

Syracuse University students can apply on OrangeLink until 1/30/2010.

Yet Another Orange Story, Or Maybe Not...

Disclaimer: Below is absolutely, by no means, what anyone at any college, school, or office should be doing. So please do not try this at home.

I'm not going to lie, I am probably the best example of "luck" when it comes to job hunting. I'm not bragging either. What I did was probably not a good idea. So in light of my sheer stupid luck, I am going to take the whole "Job Hunting" story thing backwards.

Heres what not to do when job/internship hunting at your school:

1. Wait until Senior year to start looking for opportunities. Just because you don't technically have to worry about what your doing after school when you're say, a sophomore, doesn't mean sit back and enjoy the ride by doing what little work possible while still managing to pass all your classes. If it wasn't for my roommates, I probably wouldn't have moved from that game of CounterStrike to go to the career fair in the Carrier Dome, which would have probably put a damper on my pending success.

2. Which brings me to my next point: Don't wait until someone tells you to go job/internship hunting. If you have time to play 3 hours worth of video games or sleep until 2 in the afternoon (I'm not a morning person) then you have time to walk the few hundred feet to the career services center in your school to check out upcoming events.

3. Meet new people. Expand beyond that small group of friends you met freshman year in your dorm.  Join some clubs. My problem was that I was still putting things from High School on my resume. Not because I lacked experience, but because I lacked variety. I held one Job for 3 years in between school. Which is not a bad thing because it shows a type of loyalty, however variety looks just as good.

From my amazing Syracuse University experience, two things popped out as the most effect way to grab an employer when Job hunting: experience and charisma. Talking the talk isn't good enough without the walk, and vice-versa. So please avoid doing any of the things listed above, it'll pay off in the long run. I promise you CounterStrike will still be there when you get back from your interview.

... Another Syracuse Recruiting Story

Angry OttoAhh yesss... The oh so familiar yet so distant past of the angry otto mascot. I remember joining the ranks of the first freshmen that would henceforth be fruit. I applied to be an Orangeman not an Orange.

Syracuse had some great memories... among some of the best for me were going to London for semester abroad, volunteering with Syracuse University Ambulance (and seeing the best of campus ;-] ), and of course watching the legendary SU - UCONN Big East Game from Myrtle Beach during spring break.

Senior year did not represent the best of economic times for our country. Knowing that my major at the iSchool was one with a lot of jobs still...

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IMLP Insights

While on campus at Syracuse University representing GE and the Information Management Leadership Program, the staff at the iSchool asked if I would answer a few questions about IMLP and my experience after graduating from Syracuse last spring.

Check out the video posted above- I'm the second speaker (fast forward to 1:10 on the video).

@SU - EEDPs and Smart Grids

New EEDP Friend Owen at the GRCLast week, I traveled to Syracuse University with a FMP (Financial Managment Program), an EEDP (Edison Engineering Development Program) and my former AL (Assignment Leader).

While driving to Syracuse with my new leadership program friends, Owen, the EEDP, pulled out his iPhone and showed us a video on Smart Grids - but what we didn't realize is that he was IN the video (which was pretty cool).

Owen appeared in the video because he works at the GE Global Research Center, and has been working on Smart Grid technology there.

Check out the in-depth article posted at Technology Review by MIT.

As an IMLP, you're able to get to know members of other leadership programs - and it's pretty cool to see what they're working on too!