Committee - College Connections
Mission
Our objective is to provide participants with the tools necessary to execute a successful job search for a full time job upon graduation from college. This objective is accomplished through a series of workshops that address specific skills including professionalism, leadership, resume writing, interview techniques, career development and career choice. |
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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
The Wall Street Exchange Application Period in now closed. Please download the following information to learn more about the program:
Accomplishments, Events Highlights, Special Notes
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In 2007, a group of 47 students came from prestigious colleges across the United States, including Amherst College, Baruch, Binghamton University, Brandeis University, Carnegie Mellon, Duke University, Georgetown, Harvard University, Howard University, Lehigh University, Lehman CUNY, The City College of New York, University of Michigan, Morehouse College, Mount Holyoke, New York University, Pace University, Spellman College, Smith College, University of Georgia, University of North Carolina, University of Notre Dame, University of Rhode Island, Wellesley College, University of Pennsylvania – Wharton and Vanderbilt and employers including AIG, AXA Advisors, The Bank of New York, Bear Sterns, The Black stone Group, BNP Paribas, Citigroup, Credit Suisse, Deutsche Bank, DRW Holdings, Goldman Sachs, HSBC, JP Morgan, KPMG, Lehman Brothers, Merrill Lynch, Morgan Stanley, NASD, New York Life Insurance, New York Life investment management, and UBS Financial participated in the program. |
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Again in 2007, 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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Continued to expand the network of HR professionals in major firms who support program events such as the mock interview dinner. |
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Continued to formally document all WSE procedures and marketing material including: corporate sponsorship, application and selection processes, program calendars and procedures, annual dinner briefing, annual meeting and other reports for future College Connections Committees. |
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For the first time in 2007 we introduced leadership groups which clustered participants into groups of seven or eight. The leadership groups were responsible for making each other accountable for all events and also for participating in activities together. The theory behind the leadership group is to help students build a strong network with others within the group for long term relationships and rapport. Additionally, the leadership groups were asked to submit articles recapping and highlighting events which were distributed to the FWA newsletter. |
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For 2007 we began keeping a database of students in the program so that going forward we can continue to reach out to past participants. |
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For the first time we held a reunion dinner in January 2008 for WSE 2007 participants who were in New York City over the holiday break. |
Special Thanks for WSE 2007
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FWA Board members who helped shape WSE 2007 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 2007 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 staff for coordinating the application process and working closely with the College Connections Committee. |
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