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INROADS Announces 2009 Top 10
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St. Louis, MO, Oct 22, 2009 / -- DiversityBusiness.com/- As INROADS, Inc. enters its 40th year of creating minority internship opportunities across America, it is pleased to announce United Technologies Corporation is its largest provider of internships for an unprecedented third year in a row.
The leading businesses providing minority internships this year through INROADS are:
United Technologies Corporation
Deloitte
PricewaterhouseCoopers
The Boeing Company
MetLife
Target Corporation
Liberty Mutual Group
Kaiser Permanente
The Travelers Companies
Ernst & Young International
The non-profit, INROADS, facilitates internships annually for thousands of women and men from across the United States, Mexico and Canada. Top performer, United Technologies, is providing 195 internship opportunities to minority students this year, more than any other corporate sponsor. UTC’s Pratt & Whitney Rocketdyne company was named 2009 INROADS Sponsor Company of the Year Award in the Pacific Southwest Region, while its Hamilton Sundstrand unit was honored by the New England Region for leadership in offering full time positions to its INROADS interns.
“We salute United Technologies for maintaining their strong commitment to minority career development during difficult economic times,” said Charles H. Cornelius, President and CEO, INROADS, Inc. “Obtaining the right talent is a top priority for successful companies. The opportunities these companies are providing assist not only the individuals, but the companies themselves and our nation to grow stronger and more successful.”
These top companies share strategic relationships with INROADS that allows the non-profit leadership development organization to provide them with a talent pipeline of high-potential future executives. INROADS interns do “real work, not make-work,” as one former intern put it. They are mentored throughout their assignments by INROADS advisors and employees of each participating company in diverse fields including financial services, retail store management, health, consumer products, energy, technology, and manufacturing.
“UTC’s strength and performance lies in the diversity of our businesses, our suppliers and our workforce,” says J. Thomas Bowler, Jr., UTC senior vice president, human resources and organization. “INROADS is a key component in our efforts to attract world class talent to UTC.”
UTC has participated with INROADS since 1986, providing some 2300 internship opportunities nationwide.
About INROADS,Inc.
Founded in 1970, INROADS, Inc. is the nation's largest non-profit source of salaried corporate internships for excelling Black, Hispanic/Latino and Native American Indian college students. INROADS has graduated more than 23,000 leaders, including Steven Davis, CEO and Chairman of the Board for fortune 500 company Bob Evans Farms, Linda Hamilton, President of the UPS Foundation, and Allan C. Golston, President of U.S. Programs for the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. With more than 40 offices throughout the U.S., Mexico, and Canada, INROADS trains and places more than 2,300 young men and women each year in salaried corporate internships. Since 1993, INROADS has consistently been named one of “America’s Top 10 Internships.” To learn more, visit www.INROADS.org.
About UTC
United Technologies Corp. [NYSE:UTX] provides energy efficient products and services to aerospace and building industries. UTC’s products include Carrier heating, air conditioning and refrigeration, Hamilton Sundstrand aerospace systems and industrial products, Otis elevators and escalators, Pratt & Whitney aircraft engines, Sikorsky helicopters, UTC Fire & Security systems and UTC Power fuel cells. DiversityBusiness.com ranked UTC 18th on the list of “Top 50 Organizations for Multicultural Business Opportunities” in 2008. UTC has been on the list of Global 100 Most Sustainable Corporations in the World since 2005, a member of the Dow Jones Sustainability Indexes since the indexes began in 1999, and was named the “greenest” aerospace & defense company by Newsweek this year.
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