How to Pitch Your WOW! to Investors- Bill Reichert, Pegasus Tech Ventures

Early-stage founders will learn how to strategically attract, hire, and manage student interns to accelerate their company’s growth.

Grab pizza on us and join Kristi Vanderhoof, Career Center Coordinator at Las Positas College, as she walks startup founders and team members through the process of attracting,hiring, and retaining college student interns. Daybreak Labs founder and serial entrepreneur, George Farquar, will discuss how he built a high-performing team at his last company, Buzzkill Labs, with a strategic hiring strategy that began with internships.

Attendees will learn:

• Timeline for posting, hiring, and starting interns
• How to create a Handshake account
• How to structure an internship project so the company and intern both get value
• How to retain effective interns and attract them as future FTEs

Attendees are encouraged to bring their laptops so they can create their Handshake account with Kristi’s help during the workshop.

ABOUT KRISTI VANDERHOOF

As Career Center Coordinator at an award-winning community college, Kristi finds it rewarding to match qualified students with an employer offering career-building opportunities. Employers change lives by offering young adults, career changers, refugees, veterans, and historically underrepresented students with internships and jobs that enable them to learn new skills related to their field of study.

Kristi also helps employers find and foster new talent at Las Positas College by hosting job and internship fairs and on-site recruitment events, administering Handshake (career services platform and job board), and promoting employers’ opportunities to relevant departments on campus.

Her goal is to provide a welcoming environment for students seeking jobs, internships, and career guidance. No matter where students are at–if they have no work experience, are restarting their career after a break, or changing careers–she offers them helpful resources, compassionate guidance, and honest feedback to help them achieve their personal and professional goals.

Kristi also speak Spanish fluently after taking 6 years of courses and living in Oaxaca, Mexico, for two years. Connect with Kristi on LinkedIn.

ABOUT GEORGE FARQUAR

Most recently serving as the founder and CTO of Buzzkill Labs, George Farquar, a serial entrepreneur and Daybreak Labs alum, brings over 20 years of analytical chemistry experience, including 10 years at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory where he developed solutions for detecting trace chemicals using a variety of chemistry techniques. He earned his Ph.D. from Louisiana State University. George is a proud product of the California community college system, and has strategically used community college student interns as a way to build a high functioning team of FTEs whose careers matured with their education and the company he founded.

ABOUT LAS POSITAS COLLEGE

Las Positas College is an award winning community college that provides an inclusive, learning-centered, equity-focused environment that offers educational opportunities and support for completion of students’ transfer, degree, and career-technical goals while promoting lifelong learning. Learn more at https://laspositascollege.edu