{"id":5080,"date":"2023-11-09T22:59:15","date_gmt":"2023-11-09T22:59:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/?p=5080"},"modified":"2023-11-09T22:59:24","modified_gmt":"2023-11-09T22:59:24","slug":"catching-connections-event-bring-employers-and-troy-students-together","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/2023\/11\/09\/catching-connections-event-bring-employers-and-troy-students-together\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Catching Connections&#8217; event bring employers and TROY students together"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>TROY, Ala. (<a href=\"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">TROJANVISION<\/a>) \u2014 Tuesday afternoon, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.troy.edu\/academics\/colleges-schools\/business\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Sorrell College of Business<\/a> held its inaugural Catching Connections networking event in Hal Hall.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The networking event brought students face to face with potential employers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;It was a social networking event to kind of showcase our students here at the University to different organizations that are here in Alabama,&#8221; said Marketing Club President Madison Ward.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Organizers wanted students to gain networking opportunities, find new career paths, and build new connections.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;It gave students an opportunity to make the connections they need but also get internship exposure,&#8221; Ward explained. &#8220;See what opportunities are right here under their nose. I hope they were able to gain different connections in the field that they want to go in but also exposure for internships.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>One business representative said she was impressed by students&#8217; preparation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m just looking around the room at these students today, they&#8217;re dressed so professionally, they&#8217;ve got the handshake, I mean they&#8217;ve been doing all the right things,&#8221; said Field Representative Melanie Hill. &#8220;Their resumes look good and so I hope they walk away with learning how to engage and have that professional conversation.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>One student who attended the event said she hopes to gain new business opportunities that coincide with her major.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Being a business major with Sorrell at Troy University I feel it will open up new doors and new experiences for upcoming graduates,&#8221; said business student Maya Salone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sorrell College&#8217;s next event will be a simple-self and mental health assessment on Saturday, Nov. 18.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TROY, Ala. (TROJANVISION) \u2014 Tuesday afternoon, the Sorrell College of Business held its inaugural Catching Connections networking event in Hal Hall.<\/p>\n<p>The networking event brought students face to face with potential employers.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It was a social networking event to kind of showcase our students here at the University to different organizations that are here in&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"a-button\" href=\"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/2023\/11\/09\/catching-connections-event-bring-employers-and-troy-students-together\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":5081,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1127],"tags":[679],"topics":[4,17],"class_list":["post-5080","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-campus-news","tag-sorrell-college-of-business","topics-college-of-business","topics-troy-campus"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5080","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/27"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5080"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5080\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5081"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5080"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5080"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5080"},{"taxonomy":"topics","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topics?post=5080"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}