This morning I got to listen in on a conference call discussing the company Handshake, which is a platform for reaching out to and recruiting university students for internships and job opportunities. The representative from Handshake displayed his presentation on our host Kayla’s screen, and he walked through what the program is and did a demo of what the platform looks like from both the perspective of a student and an employer. This was very interesting since this new program is revolutionizing how companies connect to college students and expediting the communication between them.
During lunch, we got to attend a graduation for those who had just finished the SAS Academy programs for areas such as tech support and consulting. There were many people who spoke about their experiences with the SAS academy and everything that they’d learned, which was very interesting because everyone had very nice things to say, especially about how SAS goes through the process of teaching and easing their employees into work instead of just throwing them in, which shows how much SAS truly cares about their staff.
Below is a picture of Building Q, where HR is and where I spent Day 2:
