St. John's University Athletics
Red Storm Career Night Another Success
3/23/2010 12:00:00 AM | General
March 23, 2010
QUEENS, N.Y. -
Student-athletes were invited to bring resumes, enjoy dinner and spend time networking with professionals from their prospective fields Monday evening as part of the annual Student-Athlete Career Night, held in the D'Angelo Center. The event continues a history of more than 20 years, having begun under Jack Kaiser, Athletic Director Emeritus, and through the efforts of Mary Pat Beirne, the current Assistant Director of Athletic Development.
There were more than twenty facilitators from various businesses invited to share their stories with the student-athletes, including several Red Storm alumni.
Georgios Spanos, a 2007 men's soccer alumnus, was linked to his current position through a past career night and was excited to return as a recruiter for Empire Surgical.
"Being a student-athlete requires an incredible amount of discipline and balance. When I was a student-athlete at St. John's, I put in a lot of hard work on the field and in the classroom and I used that determination towards establishing my career."
The 2010 Career Night was organized by Justin Krass, a Career Counselor in the Career Center.
"Tonight's event provides student-athletes with a great opportunity to network with business professionals as they start to plan for their future careers after St. John's," said Michelle Kyriakides, Associate Director of the Career Center.
Following dinner, student-athletes were given the opportunity to converse with facilitators from their fields of interest and discuss potential employment or internship opportunities. They also learned how to adapt their transferable skills from athletics to a corporate environment. Several professionals from the areas of education, health, sports, entertainment, finance and marketing were in attendance to mix and mingle with the student-athletes.
The student-athletes were then able to go around the room in roundtable discussions where they were introduced to different potential employers and were encouraged to return to tables they found interesting and pertained to their career goals.
"It was great to see St. John's athletics come together tonight," Kim Piard of the women's track team. "We are here to start networking and preparing for our careers after St. John's. I think this opportunity to meet business people and learn from the success stories of former student-athletes has been a huge benefit for me."
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