Ah, career fair season. You can see it from a mile away, the steady stream of black pencil skirts and shiny black shoes. Follow them and you’ll end up at Seminole Futures and the CCI Career Fair. Side step the ladies switching from flats to heels and you’re in, winding up and down aisles of companies eager …
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News about (and for) the alumni of the schools comprising the FSU College of Communication & Information
Alums return to recruit next generation of CCI employees
From Kenya to Washington: Meet iSchool Alumna Leah Hannaford
Can one sentence change a life? Spark a career? Leah Hannaford, the resident Open Education Librarian at Centralia College in Washington, is proof that it can. Now an alumna of the School of Information, Hannaford’s journey towards librarianship started in Africa. In the Army for eight years, the staff sergeant was deployed to the Horn …
CONTINUE READINGMeet COMM Alumnus – Julio Valeriano
Since graduating with an Integrated Marketing Communication degree from Florida State University in 2010, Julio Valeriano has made his mark in the Public Relations industry in Washington, D.C. With more than five years of experience, Valeriano provides effective strategic communication, media relations and integrated marketing support for brand marketing, corporate, healthcare, public affairs and technology industries like DuPont …
CONTINUE READINGSparkFSU campaign to benefit Diem Brown Scholarship Fund
You’ve probably seen Diem Brown on television. Her bubbly personality was a part of many seasons of The Challenge on MTV and where she also worked as an entertainment reporter. Brown was a two-time cancer survivor and after a courageous journey to fight ovarian cancer, she passed away in November 2014 at the age of …
CONTINUE READINGAlumna named Director of Seafood Stability at National Aquarium
More and more often, the media is praising companies with great corporate social responsibility. These are the companies that make efforts that go above and beyond what is required by regulators, legislation and environmental protection groups. The National Aquarium, located in Baltimore, MD., is a nonprofit organization that is home to over 17,000 amphibians, sharks, fish, bottlenose …
CONTINUE READINGFSU Alumna shines at General Motors, inspires WISE members
Alumna Nicole Liang spoke to a group of aspiring IT & ICT women last week. Born and raised in Tallahassee, she had returned to her former stomping grounds to talk to students – both for advice and recruiting purposes. When she isn’t inspiring the next generation of Noles, she works for General Motors out of Austin, …
CONTINUE READINGCOMM alumna manages social media, changes small business atmosphere
Sydney Smith, alumna of the College of Communication and Information, is working for NFIB as a Social Media Marketing Manager. NFIB, a leading small business association representing small and independent businesses, has offices around the country. Sydney spends her days in the Washington D.C. office. On a day to day basis, Sydney works to organize NFIB’s …
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