Spanish Major Jobs and Graduate School Acceptances 2022

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Matthew Hochberg

Hometown: Fairfield, Connecticut
Major: Spanish 
Employer: Lord Abbett
Job title: advisor consultant
 
Job Responsibilities
 
Advisor consultants are responsible for proactively engaging financial advisors within a defined geographic territory in an effort to enrich existing relationships, identify cross-selling opportunities and originate new producers. Advisor consultants help represent Lord Abbett to our client base and thus go through a rigorous and industry-leading training program which covers investment markets, investment products and presentation skills in addition to sponsorship for Series 7, 66 and SIE licenses. Advisor consultants work in partnership with an assigned regional manager in an ongoing effort to elevate the investment conversation by thoughtfully positioning our products.
 
How has Dickinson prepared you for life after graduation?
 
Dickinson has allowed me to understand myself better. I understand how I can challenge myself in the future to seek out a successful career.
 
What are you most anticipating about your career or post-graduate pursuits?
 
I am hoping the experiences I have had at Dickinson will continue to propel my success. 
 
What are some of the defining moments of your Dickinson experience?
 
I started the Dickinson club baseball team. I went abroad to Barcelona, Spain.
 
Internship Experience
 
  • The Impeccable Investor, remote 
  • UBS, remote

Ana Matovic

Hometown: Carlisle, Pennsylvania
Majors: political science, Spanish
Graduate School: Penn State Dickinson School of Law
Program of study: J.D law program
 
How has Dickinson prepared you for life after graduation?
 
Dickinson has prepared me for life after graduation by helping me to continue to build my work ethic so that I can be a productive law student. Through my work on the Dickinson Mock Trial team, I have also sharpened my public speaking and trial advocacy skills that will benefit me in law school.
 
What are you most anticipating about your career or post-graduate pursuits?
 
After law school graduation, I am hoping to become a federal prosecutor and also pursue pro-bono work. 
 
What are some of the defining moments of your Dickinson experience?
 
During my education at Dickinson, I was able to build meaningful connections with my peers and professors. Additionally, I was able to serve as a team captain for the Dickinson Mock Trial team during my junior year and then the vice president of the club during my senior year, which I found to be extremely helpful as I navigated how to be a leader in a legal setting. This will be highly relevant in my future as I pursue a career as a trial attorney. 
 
Internship Experience
 
I was a a legal intern at Immigration Support Services in Enola, Pa. where I analyzed legal information and proofread petitions to streamline status approval processes. I also interned as a judicial intern at the Cumberland County Courthouse, where I observed all hearings, pretrial conferences and trials to deepen understanding of legal procedures and also discussed the outcomes with Judge Edward Guido and Judge Al Masland '79. Lastly, I interned at the Consumer Protection Branch of the U.S. Department of Justice in Washington D.C., where I was a legal intern. During this internship, I conducted investigative research to locate victims of fraud across the country, synthesized memorandums and translated/transcribed Spanish evidence. 
 

Carli Boyer

Hometown: Silver Spring, Maryland
Majors: Spanish, international business & management 
Employer: Brighton Jones
Job title: associate advisor

Job Responsibilities

Manage the day-to-day responsibilities, priorities and workload of their client service teams. This includes providing analytical, operational and administrative support for the acquisition, implementation and ongoing retention of clients. Provide spreadsheet analysis on an ad-hoc basis for more advanced financial topics and other specialty requests such as tax-loss harvesting, stock option and restricted stock inventories and other wealth transfer strategies; maintains all record-keeping related to these activities, including cost basis and other position data via portfolio management software.

How has Dickinson prepared you for life after graduation?

Through the liberal arts education, I have enhanced my writing abilities and problem-solving skills, which will assist me post-grad. 

What are you most anticipating about your career or post-graduate pursuits?

Starting my job as associate advisor with other Dickinson alums.

What are some of the defining moments of your Dickinson experience?

Being awarded All-American status for my soccer career and meeting my best friends. 

Internship Experience

Royal Bank of Canada 

  • Researched general trends of stocks and analyzed financial ratios.
  • Organized reports of general market trends in the electric vehicle and metaverse industry and presented findings. 
  • Provided office management including scanning, data entry, ordering and Excel organization.
  • Called charities to initiate stock donation process.

Andreea Rosu

Hometown: Sunnyside, New York
Majors: international business & management, Spanish 
Graduate School: Northeastern University's D'Amore-McKim School of Business
Field of study: Dual-degree program studying accounting and business administration
 
Internship Experience
 
As the tax intern for United Way of the Capital Region in partnership with Dickinson College, I was given an office phone in my dorm room to schedule clients for tax preparation appointments. Most importantly, once a week, I prepared income tax returns for Carlisle residents in need. Lastly, I remotely worked with my supervisor to brainstorm the best ways to remotely file tax returns for our clients due to the extension to tax season by Covid-19. It was a great honor to be selected as the only VITA intern out of about 10-15 VITA volunteers to provide the necessary tax-return assistance to low-and-moderate income individuals, families, the elderly, persons with disabilities and those with limited English-speaking ability. I directly made an impact on the Carlisle community and discovered taxation as a potential pursuit of mine.
   
As the current finance intern at the head office of EDSI, I assist the finance team on a weekly basis to compile invoices and gather data. I also work directly with the senior finance manager and corporate controller on special projects. For example, I updated the contracts repository for the entire company for this program year in which I directed several meetings with project accountants and served as a project manager. Currently, I am creating a schedule of the company's tax returns to create an efficient tracking system. My biggest accomplishment in this role thus far was creating the budget for a grant proposal seeking to establish a new program that would provide resources to underprivileged high school students. My contribution to the team was successful as EDSI won this grant proposal. 
 
I served as the bilingual human services intern in which I worked directly with the facilitator team lead. As a part of the facilitator team, I organized the curriculum for several, self-directed courses on Canvas. I also translated the orientation handbook for the office's biggest program into Spanish. Furthermore, I supported the data analysis team by tracking each program’s funding stream, enrollments, placements and retention rates using Microsoft Power BI. I also assisted the marketing team on several projects by creating flyers and writing scripts for videos as well as interviewing clients.
 
How has Dickinson prepared you for life after graduation?
 
Dickinson has enabled me the experience to discover more about my present self, as well as the woman I plan to build up to in the future. Surrounded by an inspiring and inclusive student body, I vowed to rise to the same example and challenge myself to excel as a young woman and scholar through my involvement in on-campus events and within the local Carlisle community. I applied for positions that surpassed my comfort zone on the executive board of Student Senate, jobs on and off-campus and various club positions. Today, I continue to set goals beyond those of comfort as Dickinson has prepared me to. I am driven and determined to put in the time and effort in the rigorous graduate program I will be attending to pursue my professional goals. 
 
What are you most anticipating about your career or post-graduate pursuits?
 
I anticipate the MBA/ MS in accounting program at Northeastern University's D'Amore-Mckim School of Business to be rigorous. However, I am determined to rise to all the challenges with the goals of receiving my CPA license and pursuing a career in taxation. 
 
What are some of the defining moments of your Dickinson experience?
 
Some of the defining moments of my Dickinson experience include serving as director of financial strategy for the Student Senate, serving on the Spanish Majors Committee and my membership in Kappa Alpha Theta
 

Christine Marsh

Hometown: Haddon Township, New Jersey
Major: Spanish 
Employer: Philadelphia Union
Job title: business operations intern
 
Job Responsibilities
 
Work alongside the youth development program with administrative duties such as maintaining social media/website, culminating marketing materials and communicating with associates for outreach data.
 
How has Dickinson prepared you for life after graduation?
 
Dickinson has provided me not only the skills for life after graduation but the ability to work in a multidiscipline environment. For example, although I am a Spanish major, I have always had a passion to work in business administration and marketing. Using my skills learned at Dickison across my language courses (in both Japanese and Spanish) and psychology, I was able to present my strengths in a way that was applicable to the present job.
 
What are you most anticipating about your career or post-graduate pursuits?
 
Although I will be working with the Union, I ultimately hope to work in an environment that allows me to use my language skills, i.e. an internationally centered business. 
 
What are some of the defining moments of your Dickinson experience?
 
Being able to study abroad in Málaga, Spain. Although COVID had heavily impacted my time here at Dickinson, having the chance to go abroad and live in Spain for four months broadened my horizons to a work outside of where I was born and raised. 
 
Internship Experience
 
International Sculpture Center - membership intern - Hamilton, N.J. - Assisted in membership outreach, archiving works and creating promotional material for future events.
 

Maria Smith

Hometown: Carlisle, Pennsylvania
Graduate School: Rutgers University
Field of study: Spanish literature and culture
Employer: North American Language and Cultural Assistants Program
Job title: English teaching assistant
 
Job Responsibilities
 
I will be participating in a program that would allow me to be an English teaching assistant in a Spanish primary classroom alongside an English teacher. I will be participating in this program from Sept. 2022 until June of 2023. In the fall of 2023, I will be attending graduate school at Rutgers University.
 
What are you most anticipating about your career or post-graduate pursuits?
 
I am excited to see where my studies take me and my future career path!
 
What are some of the defining moments of your Dickinson experience?
   
Working in admissions during school breaks, presenting in the Spanish and Portuguese Department Research Colloquium and presenting in the undergraduate forum at NeMLA's 53rd Annual Convention. 
 
Internship Experience
 
I was an intern for Dickinson's Office of Advancement. I worked with members of the advancement division to complete various Annual Fund and prospect research assignments. I also worked closely with the Presidential Fellowship program. 
 

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Published April 5, 2022