Career Connections Field Trip

Today I had the opportunity to attend the BYU FHSS Career Connections Field Trip. For this trip, each of us had to apply and send our resumes to be accepted to go. When I finally got my resume looking a little better, I was accepted and was able to attend the trip to Salt Lake City today.

The companies we visited included:

• Goldman Sachs
• CHG Healthcare
• Instructure
• Qualtrics

This trip was a great way to network and get to know these companies and some of the positions that can apply to the group I was with as Social Science majors.

I went in to Goldman Sachs thinking there was no way that anything could or would apply to ME as an anthropology major! I was wrong. At Goldman Sachs, I learned that they teach their staff the techniques of working for a top-end investment banking firm. Something I'm interested in now is working on the Human Capital Management team there.

CHG Healthcare is a little different and gives many opportunities for Human Resources at their company. Mark, the Chief Operating Officer for CHG, was there to talk to us more about the work ethic and the mission of the organization. The mission is what stood out to me the most: "Putting People First." This mission statement is brought about my many other points and I loved learning about that today.

Instructure is a newer company founded by two BYU students. They developed a new learning manager platform called Canvas and their company has developed from that. The focus I liked with this company is that they hire many people to start working with marketing development but they never want anyone to stay in that department. This department gives more experience and opportunities to build and move to other greater positions.

Qualtrics is a company we all know pretty well here at BYU. Getting to tour the office and see what it's like was fascinating! It reminded me of my mission: hipster. I'm not quite sure what I liked in particular about the company for ME personally, but it's a great company that gives opportunities for experience to anyone and everyone.

This field trip has given me the drive to search more for internships and mainly to build my network even further. These CEO's, CFO's, and COO's are ready to see what we've got and I'm ready to give it my all to be ready for when I graduate. Time to get to work!