{"id":17387,"date":"2017-06-22T10:43:07","date_gmt":"2017-06-22T14:43:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/?p=17387"},"modified":"2017-08-03T10:30:15","modified_gmt":"2017-08-03T14:30:15","slug":"job-business-internships-become-careers-decosimo-success-center","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/2017\/06\/job-business-internships-become-careers-decosimo-success-center\/","title":{"rendered":"On the Job: Business internships become careers through Decosimo Success Center"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"well span3 pull-right\">\n<p>Success stats<\/p>\n<p>Three months after graduation, students from the UTC <a href=\"http:\/\/www.utc.edu\/college-business\/\">College of Business<\/a> are asked to fill out a survey with questions about their current employment situation and satisfaction with their academic career at UTC, among other subjects. Here are some results from the UTC class of 2015-16:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Graduates with bachelor degrees:<\/strong> 387<\/li>\n<li><strong>Found fulltime employment:<\/strong> 73 percent; national average is 58 percent, according to the National Association of College and Employers<\/li>\n<li><strong>Average fulltime salary:<\/strong> $40,159<\/li>\n<li><strong>Average fulltime salary with 3.8-4.0 GPA:<\/strong> $51,000<\/li>\n<li><strong>Job offered prior to graduation:<\/strong> 78 percent<\/li>\n<li><strong>In job requiring a degree:<\/strong> 84 percent<\/li>\n<li><strong>Satisfaction with current job:<\/strong> 82 percent<\/li>\n<li><strong>Completed internship:<\/strong> 81 percent<\/li>\n<li><strong>Overall satisfaction with the College of Business:<\/strong> 93 percent<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Source: Final Destination Survey for the College of Business<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Ryan Ward got back from California a couple of weeks ago. It wasn\u2019t a pleasure trip to Disneyland or Hollywood.<\/p>\n<p>He was crunching numbers, digging through spreadsheets, consulting financial records.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI was doing evaluations for the buyer, evaluating the seller, doing due diligence and other processes,\u201d explains Ward.<\/p>\n<p>In other words, he was making sure his client knew all the ins and outs, overs and unders of the business deal.<\/p>\n<p>The trip to the West Coast \u2014 as well as visits to Atlanta, Knoxville and other cities around the Southeast \u2014 came as a result of an internship Ward landed through the Joseph F. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.utc.edu\/college-business\/student-success-center\/index.php\">Decosimo Success Center<\/a> in the UTC College of Business.<\/p>\n<p>Ward\u2019s internship, in fact, was with the Elliott Davis Decosimo accounting firm. Once there, he didn\u2019t make copies or file paperwork or fetch coffee; he dove right into substantive work for clients while being directed and learning from fulltime accountants and others.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat\u2019s kind of what I wanted to do. That\u2019s how you learn the most,\u201d says Ward, who will graduate in December with a degree in accounting.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe more you\u2019re in your comfort zone, the more you\u2019re willing to step out and do things you wouldn\u2019t normally do.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Coordinating internships for students is a large part of the Decosimo Success Center\u2019s goals, although certainly not the only one. When it opened for business in 2013, the center \u201chad maybe 35 internships. We now have over 600 opportunities,\u201d says Director <a href=\"http:\/\/www.utc.edu\/college-business\/profiles\/administration-staff\/jpm174.php\">Sue Culpepper<\/a>, who spent 25 years in local banking before joining UTC.<\/p>\n<p>And those internships often lead to fulltime jobs.<\/p>\n<p>Once Ward\u2019s fulltime internship was over, for example, Elliott Davis Decosimo offered him a part-time job as a company consultant to help clients with their accounting needs, including the client in California. In the fall of 2018, provided he reaches 150 credit hours by then, he\u2019s been offered a fulltime job at the local company.<\/p>\n<p>He says he\u2019s absolutely certain his fulltime job would not have been offered if he hadn\u2019t done an internship with the firm.<\/p>\n<h3><strong>Larger goals<\/strong><\/h3>\n<div id=\"attachment_17400\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" data-attachment-id=\"17400\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/2017\/06\/job-business-internships-become-careers-decosimo-success-center\/success\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/files\/2017\/05\/Success.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"1050,698\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Success\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/files\/2017\/05\/Success-1024x681.jpg\" class=\"wp-image-17400 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/files\/2017\/05\/Success-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"Students stand in the Decosimo Success Center, spinning a multicolored wheel.\" style=\"max-width: 100%;\"style=\"max-width: 100%;\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/files\/2017\/05\/Success-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/files\/2017\/05\/Success-768x511.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/files\/2017\/05\/Success-1024x681.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/files\/2017\/05\/Success-580x386.jpg 580w, https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/files\/2017\/05\/Success-610x406.jpg 610w, https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/files\/2017\/05\/Success-250x166.jpg 250w, https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/files\/2017\/05\/Success-600x400.jpg 600w, https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/files\/2017\/05\/Success.jpg 1050w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Seventy-three percent of business students who found internships through the Joseph F. Decosimo Success Center landed fulltime employment within three months of graduation. The national average is 58 percent.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Still, the Decosimo Success Center aims at a larger target than just internships.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe want to assist students from both the academic side and the career side to get them prepared to be business-world ready,\u201d Culpepper says. \u201cThe ultimate success is when they get that end-result job and get it in the field that they\u2019re trained for and they\u2019re excited about.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Over its existence, the Decosimo Success Center has hit that \u201cultimate success\u201d to a remarkable degree.<\/p>\n<p>Three months after students graduate, they\u2019re sent a survey that asks how they\u2019re doing. Did they find a job? Do they like what they\u2019re doing? Did the school give them the knowledge and tools they needed?<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe want to get a measurement of their satisfaction,\u201d Culpepper says.<\/p>\n<p>A total of 387 business students graduated in the 2015-16 academic year and 252 of them responded to the survey. Seventy-three percent of the respondents had fulltime jobs and 89 percent were in positions related to their degree, college records show.<\/p>\n<p>While in school, business students can start internships as soon as they want, but they only get academic credits after they\u2019ve already earned 60 credit hours toward their degrees. Numbers from the College of Business show many students are going after those internship credits \u2014 and the numbers are rising.<\/p>\n<p>In the 2015-16 year, \u201c174 students received academic credit for internships; this year was 242,\u201d says Culpepper.<\/p>\n<h3><strong>Outside interest<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>Impressed with the quality of UTC students, companies are now calling the Decosimo Success Center \u2014 instead of the other way around \u2014 trying to convince students to take internships at their firms.<\/p>\n<p>Unum admires UTC business students so much, it approached the College of Business in 2013 and the two collaborated on the creation of the Unum Scholars program.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have seen high-caliber individuals who are prepared to work hard and make lasting contributions to many different departments,\u201d says Eric Anderson, human resources program manager at Unum. \u201cThey are eager to learn, not afraid to ask questions and are dedicated to do their best work.<\/p>\n<p>Currently, Unum has 48 UTC students enrolled in the Scholars Program, he says. Graduate and undergraduate students can participate, but they must be full-time students with a minimum 3.0 GPA and a graduation date no earlier than one year from date that Unum hires them.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Scholar Program creates a high-potential talent pipeline that grants the participants real-world experience, build a broad business network and earn year-round income while working for a Fortune 500 company,\u201d Anderson says.<\/p>\n<p>The Unum Scholars program is so successful, Culpepper says, UTC has been approached by Erlanger Medical Center to develop a similar program for the hospital.<\/p>\n<h3><strong>Light-bulb moments<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>Jaclyn Wooten-York was there when the light bulb clicked on.<\/p>\n<p>Career services advisor in the College of Business, she had accompanied a group of students to Elliott Davis Decosimo. The visit was organized to give students a close-up idea of what a real-world job might be like.<\/p>\n<p>One student experienced a life-changing moment.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI had a student who was kind of on the fence about what she wanted to do,\u201d Wooten-York recalls. \u201cThey started talking about forensic accounting and she just kind of held onto my arm and said, \u2018That\u2019s what I want to do. It sounds so fun.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Those sorts of \u201clight bulb\u201d moments are one reason she enjoys working in the Decosimo Success Center, Wooten-York says. Before they get to college in their freshmen year, some students know they want a business degree, but they don\u2019t exactly know how to get it or what to do with it. The center tries to steer them in the direction that\u2019s right for them, she says.<\/p>\n<p>As part of the process, the center offers an online assessment survey specifically designed for incoming business students. The answers help administrators and advisors learn about the student, from likes and dislikes to goals, worries and personality, Culpepper says.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s pretty lengthy; it\u2019s pretty detailed,\u201d she says.<\/p>\n<p>If they take the survey, students are required to send it to Decosimo Success Center administrators, including academic advisors who are with individual students from freshman year until graduation.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe ask that they come talk to career advisors after they\u2019ve taken it to talk about careers and talk about their strengths and weaknesses in various aspects and then points them toward careers in business,\u201d Culpepper says.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong>Wooten-York notes that she and others in the Decosimo Success Center \u201cspend a lot of time with freshmen. We\u2019re seeing them from the minute they walk in the door as freshmen and they\u2019re scared out of their minds.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But with the center\u2019s help, \u201cthey\u2019re growing so much and getting the confidence that they have when they leave for the summer after their first year. That\u2019s my barometer of success,\u201d she says.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen the students get so excited and they see the meaning of what the Success Center is and why they\u2019re here, that kind of clicks for them,\u201d Wooten-York continues. \u201cThey\u2019re: \u2018Oh wow, I see now why you\u2019ve been pushing me to do this.\u2019 They connect the dots.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ryan Ward got back from California a couple of weeks ago. It wasn\u2019t a pleasure trip to Disneyland or Hollywood. He was crunching numbers, digging through spreadsheets, consulting financial records. 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