Committee - College Connections
Mission
To provide participants with the tools necessary to execute a successful job search for a full-time career upon graduation from college.
Started over 20 years ago the Wall Street Exchange (WSE) presented to hundreds of students the soft skills that compliment their academic career in preparation for joining the work force. |
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Committee Objectives
The College Connections Committee coordinates the Wall Street Exchange ("WSE"), a program designed to augment the summer internship work experience of select qualified students who are between their junior year and senior years of college and who are employed in the New York metropolitan area. WSE provides an exciting opportunity for participants to enhance job search skills while learning to think strategically about career choices.
 The program additionally emphasizes the important role a professional network serves in career development. We highlight networking skills and have established the "Summer Network," a volunteer group of dedicated FWA professionals who offer WSE participants professional and personal support.
Our committee objectives included an initiative to enhance the scope of our corporate event sponsors’ engagement with the WSE program and efforts to strengthen event content exploring how innovation and technology are shaping career paths in finance. We also participated in FWA meetings designed to explore and develop synergies among the organization’s next generation programs. Continuing objectives of the College Connections Committee include: fostering corporate event sponsorship, recruiting top candidates, developing the support of the Summer Network with stronger FWA membership participation and establishing alliances with local business graduate programs.
The success of the College Connections committee is commensurate with the invaluable support of our corporate sponsors, our alliances with local business graduate programs, and our ability to recruit top candidates to the program from colleges across the United States as well as the vital participation of the FWA members who comprise the Summer Network.
Program News
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Accomplishments, Events Highlights, Special Notes
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In 2009, we expanded college marketing and recruiting effort, targeting undergraduate career offices nationally, deploying former summer participants to promote the program at their alma maters. |
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For 2009, 37 students from top US schools were accepted into the program. Participants came far and wide from Barnard College, Baruch College, Carnegie Mellon, University, Georgetown University, Morehouse College, Mount Holyoke College, New York University, Pace University, Smith College, The University of Pennsylvania and University of Virginia. They worked at various companies including as AIG, Citigroup, Con Edison, Credit Suisse, Deloitte & Touche, Deutsche Bank, Goldman Sachs, HSBC, JP Morgan Chase, KPMG, Merrill Lynch, Morgan Stanley, New York Life Investment Management, NYMEX and UBS. |
Special Thanks for WSE 2009
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FWA Board members who helped shape WSE 2009 by enabling us to draw FWA talent and attract enthusiastic, dynamic summer participants. |
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Special thanks to FWA members Shoya Zichy and Andrea Nierenberg who volunteered to share their expertise with WSE 2009 participants. |
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Thank you to the FWA Summer Network for their participation and partnership in teaching Wall Street Exchange participants the value of professional networking. |
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Thank you to the FWA Office team for coordinating the application process and working closely with the College Connections Committee. |
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