Great Recruiter’s Seminar 2023: Perfect Effort
A Three-Day Summit of Training, Speakers, and Presentations Centered on Team-Building Southwestern Advantage’s Great Recruiters Seminar of 2023 brought hundreds of leaders together, at the Grand Hyatt luxury hotel in Nashville Tennessee, for a three-day summit of training, speakers, and presentations centered on team-building as well as personal and professional growth. This year’s Great Recruiters […]
Interns Give Back to the Community During Sizzler Incentive Trip with Multiple Service Projects
Southwestern Advantage Interns donate a portion of their profits during Service Week to help the local communities in and surrounding Puerto Vallarta, Mexico Participating interns visited Puerta Vallarta Mexico at the end of November 2022 for their annual Southwestern Advantage Internship incentive trip. While there, interns enjoyed beach sports, explored local culture and cuisine, and […]
Southwestern Advantage Intern Spotlight: Taylor Blaylock
How Taylor Found Success in Our Summer Internship Program Taylor Blaylock, a junior at the University of North Texas, just finished her first summer in the Southwestern Advantage Internship Program. Her journey with Southwestern Advantage began when a fellow peer surveyed her class. She instantly knew that the program and its’ culture was something she […]
Southwestern Advantage Selected as a Top 100 Internship by Wayup
For the second time, Southwestern Advantage has been chosen by WayUp as part of their Top 100 Internship List for 2021 by a panel of industry expert judges and thousands of public votes. WayUp is a popular “job matchmaker” (job site and mobile app) for college students and recent graduates where they can create a […]
Door-to-door Legitimacy Since 1868
For as long as there have been doors, there has likely been someone who knocked on them to make a sale. Door-to-door has long been a successful way to engage people face-to-face to share the value of a product offering – and it still is. When summer approaches and door-to-door solicitors canvas communities throughout the […]
The Southwestern Advantage Program Provides Soft Skills Not Taught in a Classroom
As the oldest entrepreneurial program for college and university students in the United States, the internship has always been open to students of all areas of study because of the skill sets the program offers that are not always taught in the classroom or other experiences related to the course of study. While the program […]
Southwestern Advantage Partners to Fight Human Trafficking
Southwestern Advantage Partners to Fight Human Trafficking Southwestern Advantage is honored to have an official partnership withEND SLAVERY TENNESSEE. ESTN promotes the healing of human trafficking survivors and strategically confronts slavery through training, aftercare, advocacy and prevention services. ESTN is the single point of contact for all human trafficking referrals in Middle Tennessee and provides […]
Southwestern Advantage U.S. Group 2020 Sales: Best in More Than a Decade
SOUTHWESTERN ADVANTAGE U.S. GROUP 2020 SALES: BEST IN MORE THAN A DECADE SEPTEMBER 2020 – The most common question Southwestern Advantage sales leaders heard from alumni in the spring of 2020 was, “Are you going to have a summer??” The question made sense as the world worked to respond to the COVID-19 pandemic. Well, not only […]
Dr. Ralph Brigham Elected to Board of Directors of the Cooperative Education and Internship Association
Dr. Ralph Brigham, Global Director of Campus Relations at Southwestern Advantage, has been elected to the position of Vice President for the Employer Network with the Cooperative Education and Internship Association (CEIA). He will represent employers’ interests on the Board of Directors, serve as a liaison between all the employer members and the Board, create […]
Southwestern Advantage Service Projects Lead to Missions With Southwestern Travel
One of the key principles of the Southwestern Family of Companies Statement of Purpose says: “The power of serving others; what we do is important.” For a company that’s had an entrepreneurial program for college students for 152 years, service to others is one of the most important life skills gained. Over the past decade, Southwestern Advantage […]
