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City Tech Students Interview with Lehman Brothers

From left, Lehman Assistant Vice President Roderic Dawson, City Tech Placement Director Adrian Griffith, City Tech President Russell K. Hotzler, Professor Josephine Braneky, Dean of Technology & Design Robin Bargar, and Lehman managers Anthony Cortese and Shafaat Khan, Assistant Vice President Joe Herz and manager Anthony Brunetti

More than 50 City Tech students participated in 140 interviews for internship positions with Lehman Brothers on November 7, 2007, during a visit to campus by Nyema Turner, the diversified, global financial services company's campus recruiting coordinator/co-op program manager. She was accompanied by four assistant vice presidents and nearly a dozen project leaders and other managers from five Lehman business areas.

“The Lehman Brothers recruiters were very impressed with our students,” says City Tech Placement Director Adrian Griffith. “They found them highly knowledgeable, focused and committed to building solid careers.”

This is the fourth recruitment visit to the College by

From left, Lehman interviewers Brent Charles and Lenny Hu with student interviewee Zinelle Smit

Lehman Brothers. The firm was here in fall 2006 and twice again in spring and summer 2007. Staff and management from five corporate departments -- Help Desk, Network Implementation, Network Operations, PC Support and Windows Server & Corporate Messaging -- conducted the latest day-long round of interviews. Students selected from these interviews will be invited to interview again at Lehman Brothers offices throughout the New York/New Jersey area, and those who successfully complete this second round of interviews will begin work in the spring.

Interns receive college credit and are paid for their services; several have been offered full-time positions

City Tech Career and Placement Counselor Mila Alper, Lehman Assistant Vice President Roy Walton, Professor Bader Oudjehane and Lehman Campus Recruiting Coordinator Nyema Turner

following graduation since the program’s launch more than a year ago. Interns are recruited from four academic areas – applied mathematics, computer engineering technology, computer systems technology and telecommunications engineering technology. Each recruit undergoes a rigid screening process that requires submission of a résumé, cover letter and transcript, followed by a one-on-one prescreening meeting with a placement counselor or intern coordinator and completion of an interview preparation workshop. Lehman hires up to 20 new interns per semester.

One of this year’s interviewers, Brent Charles, is a City Tech alumnus who interned with Lehman Brothers last year. He was hired full-time upon graduation with

Lehman Assistant Vice President Nelson McIver, right, with student interviewee Paul Pinaud

a BTech in computer systems technology in January 2007, and now represents the company as an interviewer for its Help Desk operations.

City Tech hosts recruitments events by scores of major regional employers throughout the academic year. “The scope of our on-campus recruitment program,” adds Griffith, “is a real strength of the College and of enormous benefit to students. Our annual Job Expo in the spring has been very well attended by both graduating students and alumni.”

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George Lowe, Media Services
 
11/21/07


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