We are excited to have five interns join us this year. They will be an important part of several special projects this summer. We'll feature each one here, so you can get to know them. Please welcome them to the team!
Hometown:
Where do you attend college and what do you study?
I graduated from Vermont Technical College in May with an Associate Degree in Agribusiness Management and Technology. This fall I will be a Junior attending Champlain College in their Bachelor’s in Accounting program.
I had known of Yankee because my mom works in the Middlebury office as a credit analyst, but before she started working here I had heard of them through my Sustainable Agriculture class at the Hannaford Career Center. In class we had talked about the many aspects of the Agriculture world and the career opportunities that are available besides the typical “farmer” that everyone thinks of. In the course of our discussion financing your business and the different careers in that area came up and we talked about businesses in Middlebury that lend specifically to the Agriculture world including FSA, VACC, and Yankee.
I graduated from Vermont Technical College in May with an Associate Degree in Agribusiness Management and Technology. This fall I will be a Junior attending Champlain College in their Bachelor’s in Accounting program.
I had known of Yankee because my mom works in the Middlebury office as a credit analyst, but before she started working here I had heard of them through my Sustainable Agriculture class at the Hannaford Career Center. In class we had talked about the many aspects of the Agriculture world and the career opportunities that are available besides the typical “farmer” that everyone thinks of. In the course of our discussion financing your business and the different careers in that area came up and we talked about businesses in Middlebury that lend specifically to the Agriculture world including FSA, VACC, and Yankee.
What branch and department do you work in? Do you have any specific projects?
I
am working in the Middlebury branch and am currently working in both the
Financial Related Services (FRS) and Credit departments. In credit I have been helping with loan document catch-up
on the backlog from the beginning of the year and verifying that loan documents
are correct. For FRS, I compiled a master list of clients with names and
addresses and also created a complete list of
2017 tax returns that were prepared by Yankee.
What do you hope to get out of your internship that you may
not get from a traditional classroom?
I hope to get
some real-world experience working on computer software and entering real data
into programs used by businesses, and having the chance to see how their
database works. In the classroom, I only get the chance to enter fake data from
a book into trial software or the software used is designed just for
learning/teaching purposes and isn’t used by companies to conduct their
everyday business. Technology is such a large part of a world today that the
knowledge I can gain from working with the different programs Yankee uses is
something I could never get from a classroom. I also have already gotten
the chance to see how the loan process works through multiple stages and how
much internal work gets done so the parts can come together to get the loan
booked.
What do you hope to do after you graduate?
After
I graduate from Champlain I plan to stay in Addison County and find an
Agribusiness job; hopefully in financial services. I hope to continue showing
my horses on both the local and regional level and maybe one day at the
national level. I also plan to become a 4H leader in the near future, most
likely for my old 4H club, and help educate kids and provide them with some of
the amazing opportunities that were given to me.
For more information on internship opportunities,
contact Ruchel St. Hilaire, at rsthilaire@yankeefarmcredit.com or 800-639-3053
