How The Right College Internship
Can Lead To Business-World Success
As founder and CEO of Port 53 Technologies, Omar Zarabi is on a mission to assist small and medium-sized businesses in quickly and confidently “vetting, trialing and implementing enterprise-grade security technologies that are easy to deploy, plus simple to use and manage.”
But it wasn’t that long ago he was just another college student looking for an internship.
Zarabi was an overachiever in high school, with great grades and a full sports calendar playing varsity soccer and basketball. He also could speak Farsi, Spanish and English. But when he went to college at the University of California Davis, he realized that he was no longer a big fish in a small pond and he would need to find a new way to excel.
It was his freshman intern experience at College Works Painting (www.collegeworks.com), a program that offers internships that help undergraduate students gain real-life business management experience by running their own house-painting business, that led him down a path to owning and operating his own business.
“I thought I was going to be an engineering student,” says Zarabi. “But my experience and success at CWP helped me realize that I should focus more on business.”
Instead of engineering, he earned a degree in economics.
Zarabi says his CWP internship experience gave him the confidence to launch his own company. It also allowed him to generate some nice resume builders, such as “marketed, sold and managed six employees at a branch that made $60,000.” He then became a regional CWP consultant helping others achieve their goals. He recruited, hired and managed more than 35 branch managers.
But it all started with that first internship, and Zarabi offers these tips for college students looking for their own internship opportunities:
Zarabi says that all internships are not created equal, and making the right choice may be one of the biggest career decisions a person will make in their lifetime.
Since starting Port 53 Technologies, he has come across many of his CWP associates in business, and has hired several of them as sales consultants.
“CWP is kind of like a fraternity,” he says.
About College Works Painting
College Works Painting (www.collegeworks.com), founded in 1993, provides real-world business experience for thousands of college students each year. The award-winning internship program also offers high-quality house-painting services for homeowners. The company operates in more than 35 states, hires more than 2,000 students each year, and paints more than 10,000 homes annually.
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As the Harlem Globetrotters prepare to bring their 2018 Amazing Feats of Basketball World Tour to Salt Lake City, one of their stars, Hammer Harrison visited Chase Field to add to the team's impressive list of trick shots by draining a shot from Chase Field -- home of the Diamondbacks.
Hammer lined up the shot from the stadium’s catwalk, where it dropped through a hoop stationed near Chase Field’s iconic pool.
The footage is approved for broadcast media (courtesy Harlem Globetrotters) and digital media is encouraged to embed it.
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IYPnB-P5mG4
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/HarlemGlobetrotters/videos/10155979023223717/
More information:
The Harlem Globetrotters will bring their 2018 Amazing Feats of Basketball World Tour to the Vivint Smart Home Arena in Salt Lake City on Saturday, Nov. 3 at 2 p.m. and 7 p.m. For more information, please visit harlemglobetrotters.com.
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With college students preparing for the fall semester and 10.7 percent of all student loans 90+ days delinquent or in default as of Q1 2018, the personal-finance website WalletHub today released its report on 2018’s States with the Most and Least Student Debt.
To determine the states that are friendliest toward student-loan debtors, WalletHub compared the 50 states and the District of Columbia across 11 key metrics. The data set ranges from average student debt to unemployment rate among the population aged 25 to 34 to share of students with past-due loan balances.
Student Debt in Utah (1=Most; 25=Avg.)
For the full report, please visit:
https://wallethub.com/edu/best-and-worst-states-for-student-debt/7520/
