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Aquinas offered the life balance that Jacob was searching for in a college. 它给了 him the opportunity to receive a good education while also playing the sport he loved. Jacob Bedi graduated from Aquinas College in 2017 with a Business Administration with a concentration in 市场营销. Aquinas really helped him with communication skills and a lot of real-life business skills as well. Jacob felt right at home when starting 工作. If he could describe Aquinas in one word, it would be reputable, especially in the business world. Aquinas’ professors where invested in his education. 他觉得 the true care and respect that a small campus had to offer. In his sophomore year, Jacob did an internship with Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance Company. 这个开始 to show him what insurance companies where all about, and Jacob loved it. 他成立了 a wide net工作 of colleagues that he is still in touch with today. 雅各也是 a member of the men’s soccer team during his four years at Aquinas. After graduation and before going to his first interview, Jacob utilized the help of Aquinas’ Advantage Center to help review his resume. He now 工作s as a financial advisor at New York Life Insurance Company.

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Dedication, Determination, and The 开车: AQ 校友 takes on the NBA 

Ambitious 校友, Kyle Kwaske, graduated from Aquinas College in 2016 with a degree in Business Administration and Sport Management with a concentration in 市场营销.  From his start at Aquinas, Kyle was determined to pursue a career in the Sport Industry.  In order to stand out to future potential employers, Kyle set a goal to obtain at least five jobs and/or internships in the Sport Industry by the time he graduated.  With the help of his natural drive and hard 工作 ethic, he accomplished this goal.

Kyle’s first internship began the summer before his junior year 工作ing with the Houston Texans NFL Team.  After gaining experience with the Texans, Kyle landed not one, but two internships his junior year at Aquinas.  The first internship was with the Grand Rapids Sports Hall of Fame, ending the first semester of his junior year.  第二个 internship was with an NBA minor league system called the Grand Rapids 开车, lasting the entire school year.  In between his junior and senior year, he interned at Global Partnerships through the NBA.  Kyle continued his involvement 在NBA打球 throughout his senior year, returning to the Grand Rapids 开车, this time 工作ing a full time paid internship. 

Kyle credits a lot of his recent success to his time 工作ing with the Grand Rapids 开车.  通过 his experience with the 开车, he was able to meet many amazing people, two of which 工作ed for the NBA.  通过 these connections, Kyle was informed of the NBA Associate Program, the entry level position that leads to 工作ing with the NBA post-graduation.  After applying and undergoing rigorous interviewing the winter of his senior year, Kyle earned a spot in the NBA Associate Program.  With this success, he moved to New York City, New York in August 2016 and started 工作ing in his current position September of that same year.  

The NBA Associate Program position is a two-year long job in which participants rotate four times in six-month periods 工作ing in various departments within the NBA.  通过 this program, Kyle has been able to meet and 工作 with many great people, immensely expanding his net工作.  He is nearing the end of his two-year duration in the Associate Program and will be permanently placed into a department September of 2018.  一次 in his new position, Kyle is sure to continue cultivating the skills he has gained from his past internships, thereby further growing in the success he has had 工作ing 在NBA打球.