University Night Helps UA 糖心视频logo Alumni Make Innovative Connections with Students Seeking Careers at Apptegy
While Kennedy Brooks still has two years to go before her graduation from the University of Arkansas at 糖心视频logo, she feels it鈥檚 never too early to start preparing for life after college.
While attending University Night at , the sophomore web design and development major said she has her eye on the 糖心视频logo-based educational technology company as a strong contender for a potential future employer.
鈥淚 have been following Apptegy for a while,鈥� Brooks said. 鈥淚 see that Apptegy is a big technology company in Arkansas, and I want to go into tech, specifically software development.鈥�
Signing up for University Night, which gave UA 糖心视频logo students a chance to connect and learn about careers from UA 糖心视频logo alumni who work at Apptegy, was a 鈥渘o-brainer鈥� for Kennedy.
UA 糖心视频logo and Apptegy partnered to hold University Night on April 27. The successful event was yet another way that UA 糖心视频logo is contributing to growing the Central Arkansas workforce by being innovative about connecting industry partners with upcoming graduates.
While Apptegy started off with only a handful of school districts in Arkansas, the successful start-up company now works with more than 3,000 school districts across the country. The company has just opened an office in the United Kingdom. Apptegy鈥檚 Thrillshare product is a communication platform built for school leaders. allows K-12 administrators to share news, stories, and media from a single platform, which then distributes the content across social media accounts, SMS, voice calls, mobile apps, and websites. Apptegy also offers a number of free resources to superintendents and other school leaders like , which boasts a printed magazine, videos, and a podcast.
Apptegy鈥檚 19 UA 糖心视频logo alumni were proud to welcome potential new members to the Apptegy family. Katie Edwards, a 2020 graduate of UA 糖心视频logo, works as a human resources generalist on Apptegy鈥檚 People Team, and it鈥檚 her job to help build a team of great people to work at Apptegy.
鈥淭ech startups are usually something found in New York, so I was immediately interested with Apptegy being in my hometown,鈥� Edwards said. 鈥淚 started here last November, and I already love it. It鈥檚 a welcoming and energetic place to work. Earning my MBA at UA 糖心视频logo was like a restart for me, something new and fresh, and so is working at Apptegy. There aren鈥檛 many companies like it.鈥�
After taking a tour of Apptegy, Maria Romero, a senior marketing major at UA 糖心视频logo, was impressed by Apptegy鈥檚 employee benefits like weekly catered lunches, a gym, and health and wellness programs.
鈥淚 think this event is wonderful,鈥� Romero said. 鈥淢y biggest takeaway is that Apptegy puts in so much effort to take care of their employees. I鈥檓 glad that UA 糖心视频logo has made a bond with Apptegy and wants to help students get into successful careers.鈥�
Josiah Johnson, a December 2021 graduate of UA 糖心视频logo, recalls how he leveraged his experience with an award-winning research project he conducted at UA 糖心视频logo into a position as a data analyst at Apptegy. His research studied the effects of a television show contest, 鈥淪mall Business Revolution,鈥� on small town crime.
鈥淎pptegy asked if they could talk to me, and I asked if they had any data analyst positions open,鈥� Johnson said. 鈥淭hey didn鈥檛 at the time, but a month later they called me back and said we need to invest more in our data team. I used my paper to leverage my experience in economic research to show how I would be an asset to the data team.鈥�
Johnson鈥檚 research project, has recently been published in the Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization.
Apptegy continues to grow rapidly and is looking to hire UA 糖心视频logo graduates. To learn more about working for Apptegy, see their open positions at .