June 1, 2017
On February 24, the evening before ICPF’s 2017 Teleconference on Corrugated Packaging, 20 select students from Bowling Green State University, Clemson University, Michigan State University, and Virginia Tech joined visiting executives from Green Bay Packaging, KapStone, Pratt Industries, Mid-Atlantic Packaging, Welch Packaging, and WestRock for ICPF’s student dialogue on corrugated packaging careers.
The students from Bowling Green State University, Clemson University, and Virginia Tech were awarded ICPF travel grants to visit East Lansing for ICPF’s Student Dialogue Dinner.
The next day, the students joined the 126 MSU packaging students in the PBS broadcast auditorium to view ICPF’s Teleconference. There they gained a unique perspective of the Teleconference by observing more than 500 fellow students interactively participating at Michigan State and from the 17 remote campuses.
The résumés for the students attending the dinner, as well as those of more than 100 other qualified upcoming graduates, can be accessed on ICPF’s Career Portal by ICPF Corporate Partners and potential partners that post student internships or full-time entry-level openings there this quarter. Please note that students are hired quickly by other industries, so there is a small window of opportunity to employ student interns and 2017 graduates before they are hired elsewhere. We encourage ICPF partners to contact ICPF and use the career portal today to post full-time openings for spring graduates and students seeking summer or fall internships.
Richard Flaherty is president of the International Corrugated Packaging Foundation.
