June 1, 2017
This past March, more than 70 students and faculty from Clemson, Michigan State, RIT, Rutgers, Virginia Tech, and the University of Wisconsin-Stout participated in the 2017 Student Packaging Jamboree, which was hosted by the RIT packaging school in Rochester, N.Y. Jamboree program planners were assisted by the International Corrugated Packaging Foundation (ICPF), which served as one of the sponsors and recruited Ben Urquhart of New England Wooden Ware Packaging & Display to provide the opening keynote address on “Current Trends in Corrugated Packaging Design and Production.”
During the Jamboree, ICPF’s program manager, Bari Zimbrick, promoted corrugated careers and provided tutorials to students on the use of ICPF’s career portal, where students can post their résumés for firms to review and apply directly online to the corrugated packaging openings companies
post there.
In speaking about the Jamboree, Ben Urquhart was very enthusiastic about the resource RIT offers to corrugated packaging firms in the Northeast. “As a result of the assistance by ICPF and my visit to the Jamboree, I already have received more than a dozen applications from upcoming RIT packaging students for one of our designer openings.”
ICPF corporate partners—and potential partners—can view many of the Jamboree participants’ résumés in ICPF’s career portal. The 2018 Student Packaging Jamboree
is scheduled for March 29–30 at Michigan State University.
To learn more about using ICPF’s career portal, contact ICPF at rflaherty@icpfbox.org or visit www.careersincorrugated.org.
Richard Flaherty is president of the International Corrugated Packaging Foundation.
