ELI at LinkedIn

ELI at LinkedIn - New York Headquarters

ELI students visited the headquarters of LinkedIn during the usual academic field trips ELI organizes for its students. LinkedIn is the largest professional social media giving employment-oriented services with more than 630 million members in 200 countries.

The English Language Institute at the College of Staten Island organized an unforgettable academic field trip to the largest professional social media, LinkedIn, located at the Empire State Building in Manhattan. ELI students had an interesting meeting with LinkedIn representative Allie Schwartz, Client Solutions Manager, Manager Solutions, at LinkedIn headquarters in New York City.

Schwartz talked to ELI students about the marketing strategies and digital solutions LinkedIn uses to attract new members and how LinkedIn helps young professionals to develop their careers and look for better job opportunities.

ELI students attended this academic field trip with their teacher, Mr. Drew Bostinto, who encouraged his students to ask questions previously prepared in class, making students practice their English in a real setting. Students asked questions about how large LinkedIn was, how useful LinkedIn was to find a job, how they could create an attractive professional LinkedIn profile, among other questions.

Students who enjoyed this amazing experience learned how important a good résumé is once they apply to a university and look for a job. ELI students who participated in this field trip were from Albania, Colombia, the Dominican Republic, Korea, Japan, and Peru.

ELI students always have academic field trips that help students learn English in a different environment outside the classroom in order to see the language in context and in a fun way. Students value these kind of activities since it helps some overcome their fear to talk or the shyness to ask to people who are not their teacher or classmate.

Once again, we congratulate our students who participated in this field trip during the summer 2019 and we look forward to seeing more students take advantage of these field trips to amazing places in New York City while learning the language at the English Language Institute at the College of Staten Island.