EVENT: Talent Focus Series
Career Pathway Planning Through "Pre-Internship" Programming
aBOUT THE EVENT
As part of the RCEDC Talent Focus Series, join Racine-based employers Modine Manufacturing and Johnson Financial Group as they highlight the custom “pre-internships” launched with Internship on Demand, a Madison-based startup. Pre-internships are tailored experiences that precede traditional internships, helping employers boost brand awareness, enhance candidate diversity, and lower recruiting costs, while creating new pathways into their organization and culture.
In 2023, Modine Manufacturing and Johnson Financial Group partnered with Internship on Demand to create custom pre-internships to meet their evolving talent needs. Modine developed an Electrical Vehicle Engineering Pre-Internship, where 10 students gained essential skills through a unique project. Johnson Financial Group’s Fall 2023 pre-internship for IT and Information Security filled IT roles from the program, offering candidates a glimpse into their award-winning culture.
This event is for Hiring Managers, Talent Acquisition leaders, HR leaders, and those involved with the hiring decisions at their organization. Our goal is to share actionable steps to assess your early talent program (including internship, co-op, and entry-level hiring) and identify opportunities to improve access for incoming candidates
Please register for this event by July 26, 2024.
If you have any questions or would like more information, please contact Cassandra Glenn at cglenn@rcedc.org or (262) 898-7438.
- Wednesday, July 31, 2024
- 7:30 a.m. - Registration and Refreshments
- 8:00 a.m. - 9:30 a.m. - Program
- Gateway Technical College's SC Johnson iMET Center, 2320 Renaissance Blvd., Sturtevant, WI 53177 (in the auditorium)
- $50 RCEDC Members | $65 Non RCEDC Members
Speakers
Keegan Moldenhauer is an entrepreneurial problem solver with experience across the early talent space. His current role is as co-founder and CEO of Internship on Demand, a workforce pipeline startup helping employers build customized “pre-internship” bootcamps to showcase their company culture and must-have skills to incoming hires. An engineer, educator, and now future of work leader, Keegan is passionate about closing the gap from college to career to create more successful career outcomes for job seekers and employers. Keegan holds a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from University of Wisconsin-Madison and is based in Denver, CO.
Logan Aguilar is the HR Early Career Specialist at Johnson Financial Group. Headquartered in Racine, WI, Johnson Financial Group is Wisconsin’s largest family-owned bank and privately-held financial institution. As an HR Early Career Specialist, Logan recruits for and manages the Summer Intern Program. Logan identifies and seeks out early talent, and is also passionate about DEI Initiatives. Prior to joining Johnson Financial Group, Logan worked as a recruiter for ALDI, one of the nation’s leading affordable grocery stores, staffing locations in Arkansas, Illinois, Iowa, Missouri, and Wisconsin. Logan holds a BS in Human Resources and a minor in Psychology from Marquette University. At Marquette, he held leadership positions in multiple student organizations and interned with the Milwaukee Bucks.
Tiffany Fiedler is the Application Engineering Section Manager for the EVantage Pursuit Group within Modine Manufacturing, an over 100-year old thermal management company with a long legacy in the automotive vertical, and industrial heating and cooling verticals. In this role, she is responsible for leading a team of application engineers and designers in designing thermal management systems for New Applications in Commercial and Industrial Electrical and Fuel Cell Vehicles. Tiffany started with Modine in September 2023, but has held engineering roles in the heat transfer industry for the last 18 years, starting with Hydronic Heating Systems for commercial buildings and transitioning to the off-highway ICE industry designing engine cooling packages for EPA Tier IV Final emissions standards.
Tiffany started her leadership journey in 2018 as an application engineering department head for the English speaking branches of a diesel engine manufacturer headquartered in Germany. In this role she was responsible for building out the application engineering teams in each high-demand English-Speaking global territory and developing a standardized process for testing and approving engine installations.
Born and raised in her home state of Wisconsin, Tiffany holds a BS in mechanical engineering from the Milwaukee School of Engineering.
A Madison, Wisconsin-based startup connecting entry level talent into employers via virtual company-specific bootcamps called “pre-internships”. Pre-internships expand the traditional early talent ecosystem to more diverse candidates that often miss out on career connected learning opportunities like internships, job shadows, and entry level roles.
Johnson Financial Group, owned by the Samuel C. Johnson family and chaired by Helen Johnson-Leipold, offers banking and wealth solutions through Johnson Bank and Johnson Wealth. Locally owned and privately managed, JFG invests in people, client experience, technology, and communities with a long-term view. As Wisconsin’s largest family-owned financial services company, we are committed to doing what is right for our customers.
