Northern Safety recruits interns

Students are often looking for just the right internship to get a taste of the real-world experiences they’ll encounter once they leave the campus and transition to the industry of their choice.

Sometimes that search can take a lot of work, but other times, like this past November, the mountain comes to the students, with the Northern Safety IT Team on campus in Utica in November, recruiting for internship positions in IT Services, Application Development, and Business Intelligence.

Representatives from the company set up shop in the Student Center lobby, where they chatted with students about the unique opportunities available at Northern Safety, as well as the many products and services the company offers to aid workers every day.

For more than three decades Northern Safety & Industrial in Frankfort, NY, has been keeping workers safe and productive, starting out as a seller of first aid supplies and gloves from the back of a pick-up truck and growing into an industry leader in providing safety supplies and industrial products. Today the company has more than 100,000 core products that ship from locations all across the country. Those safety and industrial products come from a number of well-known brand names, including their own NS Products, all ready to help keep workers safe and properly equipped on the job, whether that job be in construction, maintenance, agricultural, food preparation and handling, public service works, medical, or the handling of hazardous materials.

Internships serve a vital role in the development of a student into an employee. Aside from getting a foot in the door with a potential employer and looking good on a resume, careerbuilder.com notes that internships contain numerous other advantages, including the opportunity to try out a career and see if it’s a good fit, chances to network, establishing relationships with mentors, accumulating new skills, learning the field’s culture and etiquette, and gaining a real world perspective on an occupation that you just can’t get from a classroom.