Procter & Gamble offers three CMU students full time jobs
Three Central Michigan University students have been guaranteed jobs upon graduation, following their summer internships at Procter & Gamble, a multinational consumer goods company.
Procter & Gamble owns many well-established products including CoverGirl, Pampers, Gain, Tide and Olay. Their headquarters are located in Cincinnati.
Seniors Shayna Derby, Christopher Lewandowski and Tiffany Cioppi will not have to worry about finding jobs after graduation because of their 11-week internships, but they do not know the capacity in which they will be working with the company.
“It’s great to be able to walk into my first class my senior year and to know I have already accepted a full-time position,” Lewandowski said. “It’s a weight off my back, and I can focus on my capstone projects and final classes.”
Lewandowski said he spent his summer in Minneapolis working with the Menard’s sales team.
“It was almost like owning your own business within a business,” Lewandowski said. “I was almost like the middle man for P&G and the customers.”
Tiffany Cioppi did her internship in Charlotte, N.C., working with Harris Teeter grocery store chain. She did customer-business development in her internship that she said required sales, analytics and marketing skills.
Cioppi said that although they were in different states, it was good to be interning at the same company with fellow Chippewas.
“It was cool being able to connect with them. We would email each other throughout the day and help each other with our projects,” she said.
All of the students said the network available in Alpha Kappa Psi, a professional co-ed business fraternity, helped get their feet in the door.
“My fraternity brother had the internship before me, and I used to play field hockey with her,” Cioppi said. “She encouraged everyone to apply, and I went through the process, and I got it.”
Being in Alpha Kappa Psi, Cioppi said, helped her to be successful in the internship.
“It focuses a lot on professional development and networking,” she said. “You meet a lot of people who help and give you opportunities for leadership experience.”
Shayna Derby of Macomb said this was her second summer interning with Procter & Gamble. Her first internship was in Providence, R.I. working with CVS. This summer she interned in Minneapolis working with Target.
Derby said it feels great to know she will have a full-time position after she graduates this May.
“I was someone who wasn’t involved in high school, and I wasn’t a star student when I first came to college,” Derby said. “Now it feels like I made it.”
Derby said she wants CMU students to know they can compete with prestigious universities.
“Some of the other interns were from big name schools such as the University of Michigan and the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill,” Derby said. “All of the CMU student’s who had internships with P&G have been offered full-time positions, and some of the interns were not offered positions.”
