{"id":1320,"date":"2009-10-01T07:57:49","date_gmt":"2009-10-01T14:57:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.namablog.org\/?p=1320"},"modified":"2009-10-19T13:28:18","modified_gmt":"2009-10-19T20:28:18","slug":"heartland-looking-for-a-few-good-professionals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.namablog.org\/?p=1320","title":{"rendered":"Heartland Looking for a Few Good Professionals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Is anyone interested in helping students learn more about  what it takes to be in agri-marketing? We are looking for a few good  professionals to match with students in a job shadowing program. This is a  specific request from students involved in the Illinois State University  student NAMA chapter, who are being trained for our industry, yet do not have  any real world experience.<\/p>\n<p>This activity would occur sometime in October or November (to  be determined by the professional and student) and involves allowing a student  to shadow you for a day or two. \u00c2\u00a0Although it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s being promoted as a \u00e2\u20ac\u0153shadowing\u00e2\u20ac\u009d  experience, it would seem logical to assign students tasks to involve them in a  project, to take advantage of their shadowing function and further enriching  their educational experience. The goal is to give them a realistic look at  what\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s involved in our positions and how we do what we do.<\/p>\n<p>Please respond to Amy Bradford at <a href=\"mailto:abradford@growmark.com\">abradford@growmark.com<\/a> if you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re interested in  participating in this program. We will then work with the ISU student NAMA  chapter to identify the students to participate. Once we have the  professionals\/students identified, we\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll count on you to coordinate with the  student the day(s) that work for both of you.<\/p>\n<p>Although it is not yet a formal program, it may be something  we offer annually to students in our membership territory. I can see benefits to  both the students and our professional members: students receive first person  experience and professionals benefit by showcasing your company and getting a  first look at potential future interns or employees. Thanks for your  consideration.<\/p>\n<p>On a somewhat related matter, if you\/your company is seeking  interns or have positions open that students may be able to fill, get in touch  with Rick Whitacre or Aslihan Spaulding at ISU \u00e2\u20ac\u201c the advisors for the student  chapter. You can reach Rick at <a title=\"blocked::mailto:rwhitacr@ilstu.edu\" href=\"mailto:rwhitacr@ilstu.edu\">rwhitacr@ilstu.edu<\/a>; Aslihan at <a title=\"blocked::mailto:adspaul@ilstu.edu\" href=\"mailto:adspaul@ilstu.edu\">adspaul@ilstu.edu<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Also, watch your email for upcoming programming information.  We have some good things in the works for this fall!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Is anyone interested in helping students learn more about what it takes to be in agri-marketing? We are looking for a few good professionals to match with students in a job shadowing program. This is a specific request from students involved in the Illinois State University student NAMA chapter, who are being trained for our [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1320","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.namablog.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1320","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.namablog.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.namablog.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.namablog.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.namablog.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1320"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.namablog.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1320\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1507,"href":"https:\/\/www.namablog.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1320\/revisions\/1507"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.namablog.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1320"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.namablog.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1320"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.namablog.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1320"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}