Full-Time Opportunities: Scholastic, Inc.

Scholastic, Inc. is looking for two full-time workers to join their team! Applicants should be passionate about education and technology, and be interested in influencing the next generation of technologies for a leading publishing and educational provider.

1. Portfolio Business Analyst - Analyst works closely with the portfolio lead in the Scholastic Portfolio Management office in the Technology Services group to support strategy and business case creation, road map development, and governance for technology programs.

Responsibilities include:

- Supporting overall and program-specific road map refinement
- Assisting with Program Portfolio View updates
- Preparing executive communications

Ideal candidate should possess:

- Bachelor's Degree
- Passion for the publishing sector, education and technology
- Exceptional verbal and written communication skills
- Exceptional presentation skills
- Ability to task manage and prioritize activities efficiently
- Knowledge and experience managing projects
- Strong familiarity with Microsoft Office tools

For more details and to apply today, head to CareerLink. Job ID# 48641

2. Junior Systems Analyst - Analyst will work under the guidance of the Systems team leadership to operate as a liaison between teams supporting Scholastic's transformation efforts and the DevOps and automation teams maintaining the core systems and technologies that support the transformation efforts.

Responsibilities include:

- Communicating and receiving feedback on how Scholastic's technology automation and governance policies and processes are being consumed by the teams supporting transformation efforts
- Assisting and communicating the enforcement of Scholastic's governance of the use of hybrid cloud solutions that support transformation efforts
- Assist with the maintenance of Scholastic's automation and governance documentation and collaboration repositories

Ideal candidates should possess:

- Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Systems or equivalent required
- Strong written and verbal communication skills
- Discretion and discipline in the communication of sensitive financial details
- Strong analytical skills with Microsoft Excel spreadsheets and managing lists of financials and asset data
- Knowledge of systems development methodologies, definition, design, and testing
- Knowledge of Amazon Web Services, Atlassian products, open source technology stacks, and cloud computing concepts and principles strongly preferred

For more details and to apply today, head to CareerLink. Job ID# 48623

Full-Time Opportunities: Information Builders

Information Builders is looking for two full time positions to join its team! Candidates should be positive, professional, and possess excellent communication and problem solving skills.

1. Technical Writer I - Technical Writers in the Technical Content Management department support release documentation projects for multiple products within or across Information Builders product divisions.

Responsibilities include:

- Managing release doc projects for product releases
- Coordinating roll-out schedules in specified time-frames
- Developing workload plans, project plans and, roll-out schedules
- Supporting release technical writing tasks, such as updates, enhancements, and new features
- Installing and testing development software to update release documentation
- Independently learning company's software products, planning your time, communicating project status, multi-tasking
- Supporting creation of indexes and glossaries and learning how to create them

Ideal candidate possesses:

- A Bachelor's Degree in Technical Writing or a related field

- Working knowledge of: Microsoft Office, FrameMaker, XML/DITA, or a content management system editor for creating technical documents.

- 1-3 years technical writing experience in a software development setting or related field.

- Working knowledge of a typical software development projects’ workflow, the techniques used to manage development software content updates, and software development technical writing best practices.

- Ability to learn the software products associated with assigned projects

- Excellent technical writing skills

For more details and to apply today, head to CareerLink. Job ID# 48433

2. Technical Software Support Representative - after significant training, representatives provide technical support to Information Builders' customers and employees with application deployment, debugging, and problem determination

Responsibilities include:

- Solving problems and answering questions quickly, efficiently and courteously

- Meeting and exceeding customer satisfaction and responsiveness goals

- Providing front-line technical support predominantly of a post sales nature

- Acquiring technical knowledge of Information Builders products in order to address - customer problems and questions by attending internal training classes

- Creating Symptom Problem Solutions (SPSs) and technical documents

- Learning and adopting time management skills to accommodate changing workloads 

Ideal candidate possesses:

- College degree (preferably in computer science) or equivalent experience

- One to two years of technical support or equivalent experience

- Knowledge of WebFOCUS or FOCUS a plus

- Experience with two or more operating systems

- At least one year experience working with Java or .NET in the web environment

- Willingness to work a flexible schedule as needed

For more details and to apply today, visit CareerLink. Job ID# 33290

Internship Opportunity: Source Communications

Source Communications is looking for an intern to join its team immediately and carry through the Spring semester, if possible.  Candidates should be outgoing, enthusiastic and creative; must possess excellent written and verbal skills and a strong interest in public relations.

Responsibilities include:

- Actively work to develop a broad understanding of the PR business by performing a range of assignments

- Actively contribute in team meetings, as well as in brainstorming, developing and researching client programs

- Monitor media coverage, social media etc.

- Conduct research for new business proposals/meetings, client initiatives, etc.

- Assist with drafting media alerts, pitch letters, bios, key messaging etc

- Develop media lists accurately through research and Cision

- Provide onsite assistance at events if needed

- Stay aware of current events and assist in daily media scans for client media opportunities

Qualifications:

Must be available at least two full days a week.  Candidates majoring in communications, journalism or marketing preferred. Knowledge of Cision a plus. 

For more information and to apply today, head to CareerLink, Job ID# 48685.

Student Spotlight: Brandon Dempster

By Brandon Dempster, GSB ‘17

Seeking Alpha is a community-driven investment research website that truly enhances a business student’s understanding of the markets, investment analysis skills, and intangible skills like persuasion and debate in order to effectively communicate pitches on various securities.

My work so far has been limited to just discussing some mid-cap equities, but I can honestly say I have learned so much. This is an excellent outside the classroom resource and I firmly believe that moving forward, the skills I just listed will improve exponentially. Can I now tell you the implications of currency hedges for McDonald’s? Yes. Can I now argue why Take-Two Interactive will post greater FY 2016 earnings than their primary comparable universe, comprised of Electronic Arts and Activision-Blizzard? Yes.

Seeking Alpha really extends on the fundamental knowledge you build in the classroom and helps you apply it to real-world scenarios –scenarios that all business students are going to face at some point. Being a contributing writer on the site is not easy, and the community will let you know when your insight isn’t probable or well thought-out; however, that’s the beauty of this site – the feedback you receive from the community allows you to broaden your focus and understand different catalysts that might affect your security under consideration.

I am enjoying every second of it and really encourage my fellow Fordham Gabelli School of Business students to become contributing writers. You can contact me directly with any questions you may have at bdempster@fordham.edu.