VP to speak on finding global work
The vice president and talent development manager of JPMorgan Chase & Co. will speak Tuesday at 1:30 p.m. in Room 228B of Schine Student Center on ways liberal arts majors can market themselves to global corporations in today’s competitive job market.
Nadege J. Charles’ presentation is the first of the 2010 lecture series organized by The HUB, a university-industry collaboration founded by Syracuse University and JPMorgan Chase.
Charles, who has worked in human resources at JPMorgan Chase for 15 years, is responsible for recruiting entry-level applicants and recent college graduates, said Kathy Allen, director of program support and development at the School of Information Studies.
The HUB began in July 2007 as a collaboration that focuses on how to transfer the skills learned in the college classroom to the skills necessary to work in global corporations, such as JPMorgan Chase and IBM.
Allen, the organizer of The HUB lecture series, booked Charles because her talk targets students majoring outside of business, technology and information studies who are the usual candidates for positions in global corporations, she said.
‘We were actually looking for a speaker who came from liberal arts and got into a large company and knows about this particular market,’ Allen said. ‘We have a lot of liberal arts students at SU, and we want to show them ways to be successful, especially in this economy.’
Charles graduated from Long Island University with a bachelor’s degree in psychology and understands what it’s like to be looking for a job with a liberal arts degree, Allen said.
The lecture series is set up to teach SU students, faculty and administrators about subjects that pertain to global enterprise and global enterprise technology, Allen said.
This first lecture intended for liberal arts majors is part of The HUB’s larger initiative to attract SU students from every school and major to a career in global enterprises, said Gina Lee-Glauser, associate vice president of research at SU.
Last spring, SU created a minor in global enterprise technology through the efforts of faculty, students and staff at The HUB, Lee-Glauser said.
Students and professors from the Martin J. Whitman School of Management, the iSchool and the L.C. Smith School of Engineering and Computer Science were the first to get involved with The HUB, Lee-Glauser said. But the global enterprise minor is available to all SU students.
‘We hope to incorporate students in English or VPA (the College of Visual and Performing Arts),’ she said. ‘They don’t have to have a global enterprise technology minor and work in these organizations because they offer diversity of thoughts.’
Published on February 1, 2010 at 12:00 pm
