Fellows program creates pathway to Target Corp. jobs

In the summer of 2005, Aaron Reykdal ’06 completed a Cornell Fellowship at Target Corporation headquarters in Minneapolis, where he spent three months working on human resources projects. After completing his fellowship, Reykdal was offered a full-time job in a coveted position at Target a year before he completed his degree.

“It was just a great opportunity to take some of my project and leadership skills and promote them to the real world,” said Reykdal. “I got that corporate feel, and figured out this is how I need to prepare myself professionally.”

Reykdal’s experience was so positive that in addition to accepting a position himself, he strongly recommended the Target experience to Brittany Roth ’07, who became a Target Corporation Fellow a year later and raved about the higher level of the Fellowship program.

Roth, who had a previous internship experience, said, “The Target one was a lot more challenging. The one in [Washington] D.C. was clerical work, making copies and office work. This experience was a hundred times better.”

Like Reykdal, Roth was offered a full-time position a year before she graduated.