Students gain marketing experience through brand ambassador roles

  Maya Martin Contributor Campus brand ambassadors are students chosen by companies to represent brands and spread awareness of products on college campuses. The students who participate are placed in an active role that gives them advertising experience and a chance to network. Hollyann Luker, a senior marketing major from Pell City, has been a campus brand ambassador for Rockstar Inc. since her junior year. The ambassador role provides hands-on experience for Luker’s major and gives her an idea of how the marketing industry works.  “It taught me a little…

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LinkedIn seminar stresses the importance of networking

Madina Seytmuradova Staff Writer Sven Aelterman, the information technology (IT) director at Troy, presented on networking through LinkedIn to the Information Technology Society students on Tuesday. “It’s all about…? Come on, people,” asked Aelterman, to which the students responded, “It’s all about networking.” Aelterman distributed brochures and went through his own LinkedIn profile’s key points. “It’s a way for you to take your experience, your education, your skills and put that out there on a professional social network that, probably in the IT industry, 95 percent of the people are…

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