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Saturday, May 28, 2011

Internship Program Gives Glendora High Graduate Head Start on Job Market

Internship teaches all aspect of the business to students in a hands-on environment.

In a time when the nation's unemployment rate for recent college graduates has spiked, finding a job straight out of college can be a daunting task.  For others, such as Nelson Rony, a first year student at the University of California at Santa Barbra, a chance meeting with a guest speaker in one of his classes has helped him beat the discouraging statistic. Rony, a graduate of Glendora High School met Jared Ryan, an owner of a company called College Works painting, when Ryan was promoting his business in one of Rony’s classes. “College Works have been offering this internship for over 20 years,” Rony said. “He came to our class and talked about his business.  He then passed out a sign out sheet.  He called me, gave me an interview, and …

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