Federated Insurance Leadership Scholarships

Federated Insurance, Owatonna, MN has made a gift to St. Olaf College that will allow the awarding of two $1,000 scholarships for the academic year 2008-09.

To be eligible to apply for this scholarship, students must currently be a JUNIOR (class of ’09) with a declared major in MATH or ECONOMICS or a concentration in MANAGEMENT STUDIES, and a GPA of at least 3.0.

As an organization that prides itself on EQUITY, TEAMWORK, INTEGRITY AND RESPECT, Federated Insurance will expect that students who apply can demonstrate their commitment to these “cornerstone” principles.  Federated Insurance has a long history of COMMUNITY LEADERSHIP AND SERVICE TO OTHERS and, as such, students applying for these scholarships should demonstrate a similar orientation.

The application deadline is April 11th.  To apply for one of the Federated Insurance Leadership Scholarships, students must submit the following via OleRecruiting (see instructions below):

* current resume
* unofficial academic transcript
* short essay (500 words or less) -
The essay should explain briefly the student’s career goals and how the student has demonstrated one or more of Federated Insurance’s “cornerstone” principles in an employment, extracurricular, or community involvement/service activity.

Follow These Directions:

1. Have a resume ready to upload (peer advisors are available to help - M-F, 9-5).

2. Save a copy of your unofficial transcript by logging into the Student Information System.  Click on "Courses & Grades", click on "Grades" in the upper right corner, click "Go", under "Year & Terms", click "All Years & Terms", click "Go". Highlight everything starting after your name in the grades section, copy it and paste it to Microsoft Word.  You might want to adjust the margins in Word to .5 all around so more fits on one page (looks cleaner).  Now save this document to a place easily accessible.

3. Save a copy of your essay to a common location.

4. Now, login to OleRecruiting via the directions on the left side of the screen.

5. Upload your resume, unofficial transcript, and essay by clicking on "Documents" in the gray bar, click "Upload Document". Here you can select Resume or Other (put your transcript & essay under other). Upload all three documents.

6. Now, to apply for the Leadership Scholarship, click on "Employers" on the gray bar, click "Employer Search", underneath "Employer Name", type "Federated", click "Search". Click on the number of jobs under the "Jobs" category in the middle of your screen. Click "Leadership Scholarships".

7. Read the description. When you get to the bottom of the screen, click on Apply. You will be at a screen where you can select the resume, transcript & essay you want to use. Be sure to select all 3 items. Click "Submit".

Winners will be announced by April 21st; a presentation to winners of the scholarship will be made at a short reception in late April. Questions regarding this program may be directed to Pat Smith or ext. 3268.