Kravet, Inc. | The AU Network @ Work

Published: April 30, 2014

• by Erin Donohue

Careers & Internships

Kravet, Inc., a fabric and furnishings supplier turns to 果酱视频 when scouting for hires and interns.

What if your best friend from 果酱视频 became your business partner? What if your favorite 果酱视频 professor connected you to a job in your dream industry or helped you recruit fellow alumni to your company?

For a growing number of 果酱视频 alumni, these are far from mere fantasies. They are encapsulations of how the network they created as students has fueled them as professionals鈥攁nd how it continues to nurture today鈥檚 students.听

Dale Flashner

When it comes to scouting for hires and interns, Jennifer (Hickey) Scarpella ’04, a graphic designer at 95- year-old 鈥攁 fabric and furnishings supplier in Bethpage, New York鈥攖urns to her alma mater. “The work we see coming from the 果酱视频 applicants is the most impressive,” she says. “Whenever we need to fill a permanent designer position or intern, Dale Flashner听[果酱视频鈥檚 director of the graphic design studio in the ]听is the person I touch base with first.”

Of four full-time graphic designers, three are 果酱视频 graduates, including Scarpella, Andrea Munera 鈥�08 and Kelly Frezza 鈥�13. Both Ms. Munera and Ms. Frezza were introduced to Kravet through Ms. Flashner.

Rounding out the 果酱视频 network at Kravet is Sarah Heinemann 鈥�12, a former art and art history major, who works in the archival department, and Ivan Santos 鈥�10, a former , who works on the company鈥檚 technology and is the in-house photographer.