By Richard Burnett Amid an economy still rattled by recession worries and pandemic angst, U.S. colleges are facing growing public pressure to step up their game in preparing students for an ever-changing job market, experts say. That means a whole new volume of challenges for higher education, even at schools like Beacon College, which ranks […]
Opportunity Knocks at Beacon’s Career Week
| Beacon News, Career DevelopmentThe Beacon College Career Center is pleased to announce Career Week 2022 which will be held the week of April 4 through April 8. This year’s event features an array of events including a Job Fair, guest speakers in a variety of fields, a career fashion show, and an ice cream social. The Job Fair will include a dozen employers who will be present to talk to students about opportunities at their organizations.
Internships Immerse Students In ‘Transformative’ Experience
| Beacon News, Career Development, Student NewsAs a college intern, Jack Jones built his own field of dreams this summer for a parks and recreation department. And to draw from a famous line in the 1989 movie “Field of Dreams,” the memories were so thick, it was like dipping in magic waters. Jones joined more than 40 Beacon students who filled real-world jobs this summer as part of the Career Immersion Program (CIP). The three-week internships immersed them in a range of fields, including hospital human resources, information technology, web design, animal care and rescue, law enforcement, and recreation management.
Beacon Student Techie Earns Summer Slot with Dell Technologies
| Career Development, Student NewsStudent Lands 560-hour, $6,000 Paid Internship at RoMac
| Career Development, Student NewsBeacon Students Learn Job Skills through Career Immersion Program
| Career Development, Student NewsCorin Shields records Erin Chambers for a Beacon Quick Flick as she demonstrates features on the MyBeacon app. Corin Shields stood behind a tripod adjusting the viewfinder of his Canon camera, slowly twisting the lens. He peered into the eyecup. Then, another slow whirl of the lens. And another peek into the eyecup. […]
Career Center Coordinator Wins Local Primary
| Career Development, PeopleElection campaigns are a marathons not sprints. In her race to claim an open seat on the North Lake County Hospital Board NW, Melody Duckins won the first leg with a resounding victory in the August 18 Florida primary. Duckins, the internship and cooperative education coordinator at the Beacon College Boven Career Development […]
Beacon Student Makes Inroads with Fortune 500 Company Summer Internship
| Career Development, Student NewsFor most people, the name Johnson & Johnson conjures up shampoo that won’t make babies cry or Band-Aids to dress a boo-boo on a skinned knee. Pardon Rosealyn Downey if she now thinks of an American multinational corporation with more than 132,000 employees worldwide, a fixture on Fortune magazine’s list of the “World’s Most Admired Companies,” and a health and wellness juggernaut that rakes in $82 billion in annual revenue. That’s because Downey has enjoyed a taste of the corporate world this summer thanks to an internship at the health and wellness juggernaut thanks to help from the Boven Career Development Center.
For LD Students, Higher Education Plus Graduation Equals Higher Pay
| Career DevelopmentBeacon College President with 2019 graduate Cassandra Bergman By Dan Wine Some research suggests that a person who has a four-year college degree might earn roughly $1 million more than someone with just a high school diploma during their lifetime. That’s a pretty staggering number, and for students with learning disabilities a college degree could […]
Anthrozoology Students Channel Inner Doolittle with New County Partnership
| Career Development, Student NewsIf we could talk to the animals, learn their languages Think of all the things we could discuss If we could walk with the animals, talk with the animals, Grunt and squeak and squawk with the animals, And they could squeak and squawk and speak and talk to us. Doolittle theme Beacon College anthrozoology students […]