Quad/Graphics acquired World­color in July of this year. As some of you may know there is a for­mer World, now Quad, plant in Mid­land, MI. In the past, World took interns and Quad is con­tin­u­ing that tra­di­tion. Just to be clear, Quad is also offer­ing posi­tions in Mil­wau­kee, how­ever they have not opened the appli­ca­tion process. If you need an intern­ship and would like to apply visit this link to apply online. If you have any ques­tions about the Quad/Graphics intern­ship or intern­ships in gen­eral give me a call or email me.

My fel­low printers,

In case you haven’t heard, there is a Job Fair com­ing up this Thurs­day at Wink Arena from 11AM — 3PM.  There are going to be two com­pa­nies that are geared toward print­ing, Quad­Graph­ics and Con­sol­i­dated.  Talk to other com­pa­nies to see if the offer posi­tions in print­ing related departments.

Dress for suc­cess and bring your stu­dent ID with you to gain entrance.

Busi­ness Cards are in!

They will be avail­able for pickup tomor­row from 8–12 AM and again from 4:30–5:00 PM. You can also get them Tues­day at the meet­ing, or until 3:15. If you won’t be able to be in dur­ing any of those times please let me know and I will make sure your cards get to you.

Hey every­body, if you’re in need of an intern­ship this sum­mer it’s never too early to start look­ing. The GAA has many con­nec­tions with peo­ple in the indus­try, and ways to help you land the intern­ship you want. Here is another resource that you can use to find com­pa­nies and learn about intern­ship require­ments. Its a snazzy page put together by Conati thats rather dif­fi­cult to get to, but here’s a link to make it easy:

Again, it’s never too early to start looking.

If you are cur­rently on a job search in the print indus­try, give PrintWorkers.com a try. A brief descrip­tion of their web site:

Printworkers.com unites the best com­pa­nies with the most tal­ented employ­ees in the print, copy, dig­i­tal and web indus­tries. Print­work­ers for the best Print­ing jobs, Cre­ative jobs, Mar­ket­ing jobs and Workers.

Before sign­ing up, check out their “Search Jobs Now!” fea­ture. Click­ing on a state will bring up jobs that are avail­able; for exam­ple, doing a search in Wash­ing­ton brings up the following:

Cat­e­gory: Sales
Com­pany: Law­ton Print­ing
Posi­tion: Sales Rep­re­sen­ta­tive
Descrip­tion: Spokane, WA com­mer­cial print­ing com­pany is expand­ing its com­mer­cial print­ing sales divi­sion and accept­ing appli­ca­tions for the posi­tion of Sales Rep­re­sen­ta­tive from qual­i­fied indi­vid­u­als for sales with …
Loca­tion: Spokane, Wash­ing­ton
Salary: Negotiable

Give the site a try, and let us know what you think. Please leave com­ments, I’m sure it will help oth­ers that are also searching.

Michi­gan has recently launched a new effort to keep local tal­ent here in the Great Lake state.

Some inter­est­ing facts about internships

• Employ­ers rate intern­ship expe­ri­ence as the num­ber one most impor­tant cri­te­ria in the job can­di­date selec­tion process.
• 74% of US employ­ers hire interns through­out the year.
• Stu­dents make good net­work­ing con­tacts dur­ing their intern­ships– which often directly lead to their full-time job after graduation.
• 50–80% of job and intern­ship seek­ers report get­ting work through networking
• Stu­dents who intern typ­i­cally have more inter­views and/or bet­ter job offers than stu­dents who do not take the time to do an internship.
• The fed­eral gov­ern­ment offers an abun­dance and vari­ety of intern­ships to both under­grad­u­ate and grad­u­ate students.
• 50% of all fed­eral work­ers could be eli­gi­ble for retire­ment dur­ing the next five years.
• Many intern­ship offers are con­tin­gent upon pass­ing a drug screen and phys­i­cal exam.
• Stu­dents who intern have more real­is­tic expec­ta­tions of “life after graduation.”

Intern Michi­gan

Quad/Graphics is cur­rently look­ing for an intern from Sum­mer 2010. It is highly rec­om­mended that if you are a Junior look­ing for an intern­ship to sub­mit your resumé to them and to con­tact them as soon as pos­si­ble (they nor­mally have the intern picked by the end of Novem­ber). An email for­warded out today has futher details:

Uni­ver­sity Intern­ship Coordinators,

As we begin our fall recruit­ing sea­son we’d like to take the oppor­tu­nity to touch base with every­one. We are look­ing for­ward to another great round of qual­i­fied intern can­di­dates to start stream­ing through the pipelines. Please keep in mind, the ear­lier we can start touch­ing base with stu­dents for next summer’s intern­ship the bet­ter for every­one! Typ­i­cally all sum­mer interns at Quad/Graphics have been hired by the end of Novem­ber. So, we encour­age you to speak with your stu­dents and have them apply early so they aren’t lost in the shuf­fle in Novem­ber! We hope that the semes­ter finds every­one doing well. Take care and enjoy the fall!

If any­one has any ques­tions for us peo­ple feel free to call or email. Thank you.

Let the recruit­ing begin!

–Tanya Gegare & Kyle Smrecek

If you are inter­ested, please con­tact Tanya Gegare (540–710-8689) and/or Kyle Smre­cek (920–269-5095) to sub­mit any resumés or addi­tional infor­ma­tion you would like.

For more infor­ma­tion about Quad/Graphics, please visit their home page at http://www.qg.com/