(Article provided by CDC)

The 2007 Summer Internship Promotion of Tsinghua SEM has kicked off on April 19 as theCareerDevelopmentCenterheld its first On-campus Summer Internship Fair, right after Tsinghua SEM announced it has achieved accreditation by AACSB International.

More than 300 students participated in this internship fair including undergraduate, graduate, MBA and Ph.D. students-- the number of participants for this fair has hit a historical high. On the job fair, students communicated with the employers proactively, recommended themselves to the recruiters, and exchanged opinions with other students or CDC staff members. The appearance of international students on the fair brought some international elements to the job fair. The unique group attracted much attention from a number of employers.

Some 30% of the employers present at the fair are from financial, consulting, IT and telecom, real estate industries, including foreign companies like Mercer Human Resource Consulting and Deutsche Lufthansa AG, Big State-owned Companies like Sino Steel, China Textile and other high-tech companies with huge growing capacity.

Some of the employers spoke highly of the internship fair.

“ShenyangandTsinghuaUniversityhave very good cooperative ties. We introduced 7 Ph.D.students and post-doctoral students from Tsinghua toShenyang, who made a lot of contributions on their positions and we appreciate Tsinghua students a lot. We became to know Tsinghua SEM better through this job fair and plan to recruit more students from Tsinghua SEM later this year”, said Yan Shouwang, Deputy Chief of the Information Office, Talent Introduction Department of Shenyang Municipal Party Committee.

According to CDC, Summer Internship Program is a common way used by a lot of employers in their campus recruitment. Employers recruit and assign a number of students into a short-term project or a certain position. The company will evaluate students’ performance and choose thosethey think are suitable. As for the students, the internship program provides them with more opportunities to get familiar with the industries and companies, and know better their career direction. The summer internship program often starts in July and ends in August, which accordingly is called summer internship program. To promote the summer internship program and create more job opportunities for our students is one of the major tasks of CDC.