UNC Alumni Success Stories!
See and hear real alumni share their real stories about how they found success through University Career Services. (Flash 8 Player or highter is required to view Alumni Success videos.)
You may also view videos from UNC Students sharing their stories of success. (Flash 7 Player is required for the Student videos. Transcripts of the Student Success Stories are also available.)
If you do not have access to Flash or if you cannot view the videos, transcripts of the alumni experiences are available below.
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McElveen Greg's Story: "I am employed by Target Stores. My job title is Human Resources manager. My job includes recruiting, developing, staffing, retention, anything involved in getting team members into my store and keeping them." |
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Allison Lentz Allison's Story: "I was a Business and Political Science major. I knew I wanted to do something in the business capacity but I wasn’t sure what. When I first started at the Business School, I knew I wanted to do the Business School coming in, but once I started the Business School, I wasn’t sure whether I would lean more towards marketing, more towards finance, consulting… " |
| Greg Lanier Greg's Story: "I work for the Boston Consulting Group in Atlanta, GA. BCG is a global management and strategy consulting firm. It’s a generalist firm in that we don’t specialize in any particular industry. The Associate role is essentially on par with what a consultant that has an MBA or a PhD has. But it’s the role that an undergrad would enter after school." |
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Casey Maggard Casey's Story: "I am an Associate at the Boston Consulting Group. We are a management and strategic consulting firm that works for large corporations on their top problems. This is across a lot of different industries and a lot of different functional practice areas." |
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Angela Ulrich Angela's Story: "I am a Financial Analyst for Houlihan Lokey Howard & Zukin and that is an investment bank that focuses primarily in the middle market. So, we’re usually not associated with the huge deals that you would hear about on the news like Nike or Procter and Gamble but we do a lot of everyday companies that you don’t really think about but that are pretty substantial." |
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Sarah Milam, Sarah's Story: "I work in Human Resources for Norfolk Southern which is a railroad. My job is to coordinate our college recruiting efforts. We operate in a 22 state territory in the eastern half of the United States so we recruit at about 40 different schools. My job is to schedule career fairs and book our on-campus interview dates, and our pre-selects and interviewing, things like that." |
| Jill Simpson Jill's Story: "Currently I am Business Development Manager with Nestle/Purina Pet Care Company. I am actually a part of our Sales organization called the Customer Development Group. I am responsible for four different accounts, in the Atlantic region on the eastern seaboard. Part of my job is to assist our account executives in developing strategies to meet our volume goals and profit targets. That involves finding innovative solutions for merchandising, to grow share, and also a little bit of customer marketing as well." |
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