Moore
School
junior Oliver Weilandt has earned a spot in the DaimlerChrysler Career
Parnership program, which offers training opportunities to business students
while they are still in school. Weilandt competed with 800 students from all
over the world for fewer than 20 positions and completed a lengthy interview
process before he was selected.
The
selection process culminated with a trip to
Stuttgart,
Germany
, where Weilandt met with
corporate executives who presented students with real-life scenarios and asked
for their responses to problems posed. Weilandt credits his
Moore
School
experience and the faculty and
staff for helping prepare him to give thoughtful and educated answers in his
interviews.
The partnership program prepares participants for future
careers with DaimlerChrysler. "…Through seminars, events, project work and a
unique online community, [the student] will get to build the skill-sets and
network of contacts [the student] will need in management as prerequisite for a
successful career," according to the DaimlerChrysler
Web site. The program ultimately tries to match students with the
job that best fits their interests and talents.
Weilandt,
a native of
Germany, now
calls Torre Archirafi in
Sicily,
Italy
, home. He speaks five languages
– German, Italian, French, Spanish, and English. His business education focuses
are finance, international business, and supply chain management, and his minor
is in Spanish. Weilandt plans to complete a three-month internship in
Buenos Aires
before he
graduates in December 2005.
Weilandt
will travel this summer with a group of Moore students to teach business skills
to high school students in Cluj-Napoca, Romania, in the first-ever Business
English Immersion Camp sponsored by the Moore School of
Business.
