Suit & Tie: The ISS Career Podcast

In this episode, we have our cohost from last semester to discuss about both of our Summer Internships. Although Sylvia majors in Journalism, she and I ended up on the same paths-Marketing Intern!

Today is the final episode of our Suit & Tie career podcast season 1. We really enjoyed the journey of meeting new people, including students and professional staff and learning about every single step in the job hunting process. If you are interested, please feel free to leave a comment about things and topics you are curious about, and we will address them in season 2! Thank you again for this wonderful experience.

For this episode, we are honored to have Jamie Andrea from Swiss Re Management to share interesting insights about how she filters candidates through resumes and interviews. At the same time, she also provides advice on how to evaluate performance and grow constantly in the workplace.

For this episode, we invited Amy Yang and Molly Green from SuccessWorks, to share useful information and tips regarding how to choose between internships, how to negotiate salaries with recruiters, and how to plan the summer break schedules. If you are interested in more informations, please visit https://successworks.wisc.edu/make-an-appointment/. At the same time, also visit https://careers.wisc.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/60/2017/01/FINAL-UW-Madision-employer-recruiting-policies-August-2019.pdf for Employer Recruiting policies. If you want to know more about the career preparation courses in the campus, please check out https://successworks.wisc.edu/career-courses/.

For this Episode, we are honored to have Sabrine Ali, a professional ISS staff, to help explain the concepts and requirement for CPT applications, and to help students avoid making common mistakes. For the second half of the episode, we invited Christopher Raymond, a student, to share his experience of applying for CPT for his co-op program.

In this episode, we are honored have our guests Harper Xiong and Echo He share their thoughts on networking and job hunting. Harper is a junior majoring in Finance and economics, and Echo is a also a junior who majors in Computer Science and Sociology. In this episode, they talked about their amazing experiences and stories on utilizing their networks in student organizations, and how to further communicate with recruiters.