{"id":3339,"date":"2009-08-20T13:25:30","date_gmt":"2009-08-20T17:25:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/?p=3339"},"modified":"2017-11-08T10:40:20","modified_gmt":"2017-11-08T15:40:20","slug":"college-begins-to-cement-relationship-with-tarmac-a-titan-america-business","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/2009\/08\/college-begins-to-cement-relationship-with-tarmac-a-titan-america-business\/","title":{"rendered":"College begins to cement relationship with Tarmac, a Titan America Business."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A chance meeting at a Florida International University (FIU) event in the spring of 2009 between <strong>Barry Shiflett<\/strong>, director, Career Management Services (CMS) in the College of Business Administration, and <strong>Carlo Amato<\/strong>, human resources director, Titan America, has led to a new relationship between the business school and the global corporation. Titan America is part of a family of companies within the Athens, Greece-based Titan Group&#8212;a 100-year-old company that is the country\u2019s leading cement producer. Tarmac, a Titan America Business, has a plant in Fort Lauderdale, one that, along with Titan America, holds potential for graduates of the business school.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3340\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3340\" style=\"width: 550px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-3340 size-full\" title=\"From left to right Carlo Amato; John Malcolm, vice president, Concrete Products; four members of the college\u2019s Career Management Services staff: Sammi Rosin, Dawn Lazar, Elsie Florido, and Barry Shiflett; and Tomas Carmelo\" src=\"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/tn_FIU-Titan-Visit-August09-1.JPG\" alt=\"From left to right Carlo Amato; John Malcolm, vice president, Concrete Products; four members of the college\u2019s Career Management Services staff: Sammi Rosin, Dawn Lazar, Elsie Florido, and Barry Shiflett; and Tomas Carmelo\" width=\"550\" height=\"412\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3340\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">From left to right Carlo Amato; John Malcolm, vice president, Concrete Products; four members of the college\u2019s Career Management Services staff: Sammi Rosin, Dawn Lazar, Elsie Florido and Barry Shiflett; and Tomas Carmelo<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Though the relationship has just begun, Amato has joined the CMS Advisory Board, with <strong>Tomas Carmelo<\/strong>, general manager, Southern Region-Tarmac, a Titan America Business, serving as an alternate. Shiflett and his staff have met with Tarmac\u2019s human resources team. And, most recently, members of the CMS staff were guests at Tarmac.<\/p>\n<p><em>Site visit reveals multiple job possibilities for business students.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe visited Tarmac on August 12, 2009, meeting with various individuals so we could learn more about Titan America and the opportunities they offer to business students,\u201d Shiflett said.<\/p>\n<p>Of particular interest is the company\u2019s Management Development Candidate (MDC) program. During the course of the five-hour visit, the FIU group got a tour of the plant and were able to see all the rotational areas&#8212;such as dispatch and quality assurance&#8212;that an MDC participant goes through during his or her training in the one-year, full-time program that follows graduation.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTarmac will begin to formally recruit for the program at FIU in the fall,\u201d Shiflett said, \u201cand we look forward to continuing to build this relationship for our mutual benefit.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A chance meeting at a Florida International University (FIU) event in the spring of 2009 between Barry Shiflett, director, Career Management Services (CMS) in the College of Business Administration, and Carlo Amato, human resources director, Titan America, has led to a new relationship between the business school and the global corporation. 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