American Express views campus recruitment as a vital leadership pipeline for the organization. As a result, we have a long-standing commitment to hiring top undergraduate and graduate candidates who reflect true personal excellence and demonstrated leadership potential.
As potential leaders of the Company, we expect you to develop winning strategies and drive results, seek out opportunities for innovation and change while building strong relationships, communicate effectively across diverse global teams and maintain a sharp focus on customer and client service.
American Express is representative of a highly talented team that's actively working to secure our reputation as a world leader in quality, integrity and innovation. We want to leverage your capabilities and encourage you to explore your own unique career path within our vast enterprise.
Here, each day, you will have a chance to experience your full potential within an environment of mutual respect, collaboration and teamwork. Join us and you will join the best of the best, in a company that is all about winning.
American Express is an equal opportunity employer.
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Summer Internship Program
Each summer, American Express hosts numerous interns across many of the geographies where we do business. The majority of our internships are U.S. based, with a concentration of opportunities at our New York City headquarters. Other U.S. locations include Fort Lauderdale, Miami, Salt Lake City, Greensboro and Phoenix. Internationally, there are opportunities to work in our regional offices in London or Singapore.
The Summer Internship Program provides students the chance to apply the knowledge gained in school into realistic on-the-job experiences, giving you the opportunity to achieve measurable results and showcase your leadership potential.
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Summer Intern Projects
At the end of the summer, you'll present your project findings and results to members of your team and business unit, including key senior leaders.
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Professional Orientation and Development (POD)
POD is an employee network designed to provide you with a broad orientation to American Express through trainings, career programs, networking, and mentoring. POD programs are geared towards developing you personally and professionally and providing a forum in which to develop business knowledge and network with colleagues at all levels.
What type of activities does POD offer?
Career Programs: offer American Express career-related programming through panel discussions. These programs are geared specifically at supporting your career growth and knowledge sharing at American Express.
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Professional Orientation and Development (POD)
Training Sessions: focus on producing skill development training events/programs. Examples of training events include: Presentation skills, Deck Writing, and other relevant topics.
POD Employee Connections: a mentoring program designed to help you expand your network within American Express, increase your knowledge of our businesses, and share ideas and experiences between new and tenured peers.
Amex Leadership Spotlight: a series of conversations between Senior Leaders and POD members. It is an opportunity for you to learn more about the Leaders' career paths and to engage in dialogue / Q&A with company leaders.
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Learning System
The Learning System at American Express enables you to better manage your training and career development needs and gives your hiring leader the tools to oversee your development.
There are hundreds of courses, web-based and instructor-led, that are available on the Learning System. Working together, you and your hiring leader can utilize the Learning System to build, adjust, and manage your developmental plans at American Express.
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Marketing Excellence Training
The Premium Value Group within Global Advertising and Brand Management provides you with the opportunity to engage in a rigorous marketing training curriculum developed by external marketing and training experts as well as internal senior marketers. The courses are available for all employees.
As part of ongoing commitment to excellence, Marketing Excellence Training seminars offer a variety of business topics essential to building marketing competencies. Taught by best in class experts, these courses will offer you an efficient learning approach tailored for a fast-paced business environment.
Example courses include: Marketing 101, Campaign Planning & Execution, B2B Marketing: Customer Value Management, Managing Customers as Investments, and Developing Innovative Products and Solutions.
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Campus Recruitment & Diversity Conferences
American Express recruiters will be traveling to campuses and conferences throughout the year. Please visit with us at one of the following locations:
United Negro College Fund National Alumni Conference
January 31-February 4, 2007
Nashville, TN
Consortium for Graduate Study in Management
Orientation Program and Alumni Weekend
May 28-June 2, 2007
Indianapolis, IN
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Campus Recruitment & Diversity Conferences
National Association of Asian American Professionals
August 17-18, 2007
Atlanta, GA
National Black MBA Association Conference
September 12-16, 2007
Orlando, FL
National Society of Hispanic MBAs Conference
October 4-7, 2007
Houston, TX
ReachingOut: LGBT MBA Conference
October 11-14, 2007
San Francisco, CA
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Summer Intern Projects
Each intern receives a project scoped by senior leaders as being significant to company goals and usually executable within a 10-12 week timeframe. You'll work with your Business Unit Coordinator (BUC) to determine a start date for your internship. Your BUC will also coordinate the project matching process, typically 2-4 weeks in advance of your internship start date. Please note that the process varies slightly across all business units. Please contact your BUC (named in your offer letter) for more specifics.
During your internship assignment, you'll meet with your hiring leader for regular project updates to determine deliverables and inquire about available resources.
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Summer Intern Professional Development
Professional development occurs at several levels during the Summer Internship Program.
You'll enjoy a variety of Lunch & Learn events designed exclusively for interns. These lunches are a great way for you to network with fellow interns. More importantly, they provide you the opportunity to learn first-hand from senior leaders all about the variety of businesses that make up American Express.
Our Executive Lunch Series will provide you with an opportunity to network and dine with our most senior executives. Past hosts have included Ken Chenault (Chief Executive Officer) and John Hayes (Chief Marketing Officer) among many others.
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Summer Intern Performance Management Process
As in intern, you'll take part in our formal talent review program called the Performance Management Process (PMP) which includes:
Goal Setting - determining your goals in alignment with company objectives
Development Planning - identifying the competencies necessary to reach your goals and a plan for how you will develop them
Mid-Summer Review - a formal assessment of your achievements to date with feedback on areas of development
End-of-Summer Review - a final formal assessment on your overall performance
Coaching & Feedback - on-going throughout summer during regular updates with your leader
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Summer Intern Events
In addition to a busy work calendar, you'll also have an active team-building and networking events calendar. Some events will bring together interns from regions across the globe, while other activities will vary by location. Regardless of where you are for the summer, you can be sure to have a full calendar of summer fun!
Past global and regional events have included:
Global Summer Internship Conference Calls
Ken Chenault's NYC Welcome Reception
Professional baseball games- New York Yankees, Arizona Diamondbacks
Pottery making event
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Summer Intern Events
Central Park Scavenger Hunt & BBQ
Wine tasting event
Culture Card Program (free access to local arts & cultural institutions)
Live Performance Theatre: Broadway and regional theaters
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Summer Intern '9 Tips For Success'
1. Network! Meet as many people as possible. The more people who know you, the more they can speak on your behalf when it's time to extend offers.
2. Be proactive. Don't be afraid to make suggestions if you see room for improvement.
3. Ask lots of questions. Make it your homework assignment to regularly ask meaningful questions.
4. Seek feedback. Make sure you're meeting or exceeding expectations by getting feedback from your leaders.
5. Volunteer to work on as many projects as possible. It will give you a chance to learn about different areas of the company.
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Summer Intern '9 Tips For Success'
6. Be flexible and open-minded. In an internship, like a work environment, things don't always go as expected.
7. "Manage up." Proactively showcase what you're doing in your day-to-day activities.
8. Walk the floor. Get face time with colleagues.
9. Work to get the fulltime offer!
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Summer Intern Professional Development
You'll also be invited to company-wide and business unit-specific Town Hall gatherings which explore a variety of topics that cover the state-of-the-business, competitive strategies, our key business drivers and a focus on leadership and employee development.
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