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Career fair introduces students to networking STATE COLLEGE — South Hills School of Business and Technology held its Network 2015 Career Fair on March 31 at Mountain View Country Club in Boalsburg. More than 600 students from the State College, Altoona and Lewistown school locations were in attendance. The Career Service Office at South Hills annually plans the career exposition, which provides both first and second year students with an environment to network with nearly 100 local businesses and state agencies within their majors. Vendors at the event stated they were pleased to interact with such an energetic, well prepared and professional group of students this year. “This is always an excellent career fair for the Shaner Hotel Group, because South Hills trains the engineers, accountants, business and office managers that we are looking for,” Mary Anslinger, corporate human resources manager from the Shaner Hotel Group said. Many business representatives at the Career Fair are also South Hills graduates. This atmosphere provides an enthusiastic and helpful interchange between students and business recruiters, where graduates can assist current students in developing their job search skills. Administrative professional student Marcella Bell, of Lewistown, said: “As a second year student, I felt this was a really important day to make good contacts and network with a variety of grads and businesses for an internship and job. I’m leaving here with many great job leads.” Students attend the career fair to look for both internship sites and for jobs. Completing an internship is a curricular requirement in each of the 11 career programs offered by South Hills schools, with many internships leading to future job offers. George Medairy III, director of information technology for Sheetz, was specifically looking for IT interns. “The South Hills students that I spoke with today were professional and enthusiastic,” he said. “I found them to be career-focused and they know what they want. If interns prove to be successful with us, we will often hire them.”
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SOUTH HILLS students met with area business representatives during the recent Network 2015 Career Fair. State College Mayor Elizabeth Goreham was also in attendance at the event. “We are so glad that Paul and Maralyn Mazza decided to start South Hills School 45 years ago, because they have provided such a quality institution that does a great job in
BEA students excel Professor receives at state events honorable mention WINGATE — Bald Eagle Area junior Chelcie Goss competed in the Pennsylvania State Baton Twirling Competition on March 22 at California University of Pennsylvania and came away with Pennsylvania State Championships in the two-baton event and in the strut event. Goss also finished second in the one-baton solo event. She is an active member of the BEA indoor major majorettes and the BEA band as a baton twirler. Another BEA student, Emily Trigg, recently CHELCIE GOSS was named a EMILY TRIGG state finalist by the Future Farmers of America. Trigg, a junior, competed in the proficiency area of goat production.
UNIVERSITY PARK — Jaime Schultz, assistant professor of kinesiology at Penn State, received an honorable mention PROSE Award from the Professional and Scholarly Publishing Division of the Association of American Publishers in the category of U.S. history for her recent book, “Qualifying Times: Points of Change in U.S. Women’s Sport.” Schultz’s research interests include issues relating to race, gender and sexuality and in the history of sport and physical culture. “I am deeply honored and grateful for the recognition,” Schultz said. JAIME SCHULTZ The Professional and Scholarly Publishing Division of the Association of American Publishers awards annually recognize professional and scholarly publishing by bringing attention to distinguished books, journals and electronic content in more than 40 categories. For more information, visit www.proseawards.com.
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preparing solid employees for our business community,” Goreham said. The current job market is looking hopeful for South Hills’ graduates, with the Labor Department reporting the biggest increase in job openings since 2001.
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