Newswise — “Grads are willing to make trade-offs in earnings for more work-life balance, with a recent study showing perhaps as much as $8,000 less in salary for less stress," says Mercy Eyadiel, associate vice president, career development & corporate engagement at Wake Forest University in Winston-Salem, N.C. "They are also looking for a workplace that feels like an extension of the social scene — preferably in a city energized by young people. Companies that are doing ‘good’ in the world and offer leadership development programs and training are also attractive to millennials.”
Wake Forest economics major Muggs Ibrahim is headed to Columbus, Ohio, to join Abercrombie & Fitch as a business analyst. Muggs’s family fled from Afghanistan to Pakistan when he was five years old, and though the family had lost hope of coming to the United States after 9/11, their application for political asylum was approved. Muggs has attended Wake Forest as a Magnolia Scholar — a program that provides funds and support for first-generation college students. He chose Abercrombie & Fitch for its corporate culture and leadership development program for new hires.
Eyadiel and Ibrahim are both available for interviews.
As a national leader in rethinking the college to career experience, Wake Forest has been at the forefront of transforming the traditional, outdated concept of “career services” into a holistic, four-year approach to personal and career development.
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