{"id":148947,"date":"2024-04-03T11:03:53","date_gmt":"2024-04-03T15:03:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/?p=148947"},"modified":"2024-04-03T13:04:22","modified_gmt":"2024-04-03T17:04:22","slug":"opportunity-knocks-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/2024\/04\/03\/opportunity-knocks-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Opportunity knocks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">Over 120 Wright State University students participated in the fifth annual <a href=\"https:\/\/liberal-arts.wright.edu\/\">College of Liberal Arts<\/a> Internship Partners Expo in the Millett Hall Atrium on March 26.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cIt\u2019s a good way to get your foot in the door,\u201d said Craig Wolfe, a senior psychology major who attended the expo. \u201cYou never know who you might run into here that can assist you in your future or career.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">The event was attended by 30 employers representing nonprofits, social services, media organizations, the arts and local governments looking for Wright State students to fill important roles in their organizations.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cStudents can talk to the internship providers in an informal environment,\u201d said Wayne Stark, director of workforce development for the College of Liberal Arts.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">Area police departments from Dayton, Xenia and Huber Heights were also among the employers participating in the expo.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cWe love coming to Wright State and interacting with the students here,\u201d said Tony Murphy, a recruitment administrator with the Dayton Police Department. \u201cA lot of our applicants that apply for the police division, fire division or any other City of Dayton division, a lot of them come from Wright State.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">Stark said internship providers love Wright State students because they are hard-working, attentive and hungry.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cOpportunities always happen, and every time I talk to these employers, they talk about students they\u2019ve hired on for interns but also with full-time jobs later on,\u201d said Stark.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over 120 Wright State University students participated in the fifth annual College of Liberal Arts Internship Partners Expo <a href=\"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/2024\/04\/03\/opportunity-knocks-3\/\" class=\"morelink\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":148949,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[722,729,2034,725,727,747,715,2061,720],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-148947","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-academics","category-around-campus","category-career-services","category-home-news-sidebar","category-homepage-photos-and-video","category-liberal-arts","category-news","category-undergraduate","category-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148947","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/51"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=148947"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148947\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":148953,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148947\/revisions\/148953"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/148949"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=148947"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=148947"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=148947"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}