HPU students visited New York City for a career development trip during fall break. Pictured from left to right are Christopher Stone; Thomas Schorn; Alexis Tellerd; Dana Pusateri; John Herring ’99, HPU alumnus and training consultant for core terminal sales at Bloomberg LP; Alexa Drass; Sarah Moss; and Lexie Becer.
HIGH POINT, N.C., Oct. 26, 2016 – When it comes to career preparation, High Point University students have phenomenal resources on their campus, including numerous faculty mentors and an office of Career and Professional Development staffed with career advisors.
They also have opportunities for development all over the world, thanks to experiential programs like HPU in the City.
During the university’s fall break, a group of students traveled to New York City to visit some of the world’s top employers and get a behind-the-scenes look at what it takes to work for those companies.
Kaitlyn (left) and Kristen Doshier, sisters from Dallas, are pictured in the former NYMEX Trading Floor, which the group toured during their visit.
Students visited Bloomberg Financial, Goldman Sachs, Fox Television, PVH Corp. and Hollis Taggart Art Galleries. Their journey included tours of the former NYMEX Trading Floor, Fox News studios and a Calvin Klein showroom, meetings with company CEOs and presidents, insight into their hiring processes and a networking event with successful alumni who’ve established careers in New York.
They were accompanied by members of HPU’s Career and Professional Development and Office of Institutional Advancement, who lead the program.
Executives from Fox News Studios also offered the students a tour. On the left, beginning in the back, are Stone; Erica Burroughs, director of family engagement; Drass; Pusateri; and Becer. On the right, beginning in the back are Chris Dudley, senior vice president for Institutional Advancement; Bridget Holcombe, director of Career and Professional Development; Tellerd; Moss; Schorn; and Kaitlyn (left) and Kristen Doshier.
]This is the program’s second year. Last year, students also visited Ralph Lauren, Jordan Edmiston Group Inc. and Specialist Staffing Group.