More Stories: Previous | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4

2008 PTV Intern Symposium

By Bruce Hohensee
Posted: 2008-08-21 12:55:00

Our 2008 PTV Intern Symposium took place in Wilmington, August 3-6. This year we invited thirty-three students to attend this meeting. Twenty-six spent the summer in our sales organization in the U.S. and Canada, four worked in our manufacturing facilities and three spent the summer at the Research Center. Each student presented on the projects they spent their time on this summer and our management team shared information about Hercules Incorporated and the potential career opportunities.

Each year this program seems to get stronger. This was a very solid group of students as evidenced by the results of the meeting. We are in the process of making thirteen full-time sales offers, three manufacturing offers and will be inviting several to return for another internship prior to their graduation. Several interns expressed interest in working in other parts of the organization and we are following-up on connecting them with the appropriate parties including Research, Aqualon Manufacturing and Legal.

I must thank the PTV Management Team not only for supporting this program, but for taking the time to spend the week with these potential future employees. As Hercules Incorporated faces the challenges ahead, these young people are going to ensure continued success.

PTV Hercobond Reactor Contest

By Katy Abernathy
Posted: 2008-06-19 12:30:00

The long awaited name for the R-50 reactor was at last unveiled on May 1, 2008 at the Savannah, Georgia plant. The winning sales team of Gil Rajewski, Account Representative and Athos Maranhao, Applications Manager, announced the name: ARAUCARIA 1. Araucaria is a popular pine tree species found in the Parana State in Brazil and has been a very important element of the economy.

In late 2006, the Hercobond launch team announced the contest to name the new reactor that began production in mid-2007. In order to utilize the full reactor capacity and increase sales force excitement, the launch team offered the winning sales team the opportunity to name the new reactor AND win an all expense paid weekend in Savannah.

Following the tremendous growth of this new product last year was exciting for everyone and as the contest drew to a close, the hands down winners were Gil Rajewski and Athos Maranhao. Congratulation to our winning team from Brazil!

Photo courtesy of The Black Collegian

Top 100 Employers for 2008 Announced

By The Black Collegian
Posted: 2008-04-16 20:37:00

The job outlook for the Class of '08 appears promising. Despite the cautious and sometimes gloomy economic news released throughout the past several months, particularly in December and early January 2008, the college labor market outlook appears bright, according to Dr. Philip Gardner, director of the Collegiate Employment Research Institute at Michigan State University. This year's graduates have baby boomers to thank for the growth in opportunities in 2008. Many large employers are faced with serious concerns as baby boomers prepare to retire. Employers are aggressively searching for new talent.

THE BLACK COLLEGIAN Magazine conducts an annual survey to determine the most active recruiters of college seniors for entry-level jobs. Employers were asked the number of projected hires from on-campus recruiting, the number of campuses they recruit on, and the top majors they are recruiting.

This survey results in the list of the Top 100 Employers, which is published in the magazine's Second Semester Super Issue (Feb).

Hercules Incorporated ranks 91st on the list of all college recruiting companies, hiring 30 recent college graduates from 20 campuses. See the whole list: [url]http://www.black-collegian.com/issues/2ndsem08/top100_ranking.htm[/url]

Photo courtesy of Google Earth / TerraMetrics / Tele Atlas

International Internship: Grenoble, France

By Lindsay Clark
Posted: 2008-01-23 09:00:00

Sean Snyder, a junior Chemical Engineering student at The University of Maine, will be participating in Hercules first ever international internship this coming summer. Sean will be located in Grenoble, France, a city in southeast France situated at the foot of the Alps. Grenoble is located in the center of a sizable paper producing region and is near Hercules manufacturing facility in Voreppe, France. The international experience will focus on technical sales as well as provide an opportunity to spend some time on the manufacturing side.

This will be Sean's second internship with Hercules. After his sophomore year, he joined the Hercules team calling on Lincoln Paper and Tissue in Lincoln, ME and Sappi in Hinckley, ME, where he was first introduced to the technical sales side of the paper industry. Sean enjoyed his first internship so much he accepted an offer to return for a second internship. He is very excited about this opportunity to work abroad and looks forward to learning more about Hercules and how the industry operates "across the pond".

More Stories: Previous | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4