For recent college graduate Hunter Novacek, finding a job wasn’t a problem. As a graduate of the University of Nebraska at Kearney’s Industrial Distribution program, one that boasts an almost 100% job placement rate, Novacek knew he had a great chance of immediate employment. 然而，他作为一名ID学生的经历不仅帮助他找到了一份工作。 从看到自己的名字印在大学文凭上，到毕业后立即成为自己公司的总裁，他能够大步流星地看着自己的名字出现在办公室的门上。 

While Novacek admits that it was always “a goal of (his) to be able to be the president of a local company,” his path at 太阳城娱乐官网 actually started in the Agribusiness program. Being a Kearney native who had certainly heard about 太阳城娱乐官网’s successful ID program, it wasn’t long before he decided to switch his major. 事实证明，这是帮助他在异常年轻的年纪成为自己公司总裁的旅程的开始。

As Dr. Ben Brachle, an ID faculty member at 太阳城娱乐官网, shares, careers in this industry are “hidden in plain sight” and it’s almost impossible to “graduate students fast enough because they are uniquely positioned to get into these roles.” 诺瓦切克认为，包括布拉谢尔博士在内的前教授所教授的课程，为他走出教室、开创自己的事业做好了准备。

When discussing his coursework at 太阳城娱乐官网, Novacek mentions how “simple challenging things like breaking down a PnL” has had a “huge impact” on what he does now. Using PnLs (profit and loss statements) in place of traditional textbooks in classes, such as the one he fondly remembers Dr. Brachle teaching, helped Novacek, who classifies himself as a “very hands-on learner.” He shares that, as a student, what he “really like(d) about the ID program” was “being able to learn without having to just read it from a textbook.” He credits his “professors who are knowledgeable about the industry” with helping him walk across the graduation stage and into his own business almost immediately.

当被问及ID教授如何让学生为未来的职业生涯做好充分准备时，诺瓦切克提到了课堂体验式学习的好处。 He states that the “ID program really does a great job training” students through their use of “a lot of mock interviews” as well as “mock sales.” 他还分享说，与他的教授交谈非常愉快，他们将自己的见解和经验无缝地传递给像他这样的学生。

Thinking back on everything he learned as a student in 太阳城娱乐官网’s ID program, Novacek says that the sales competition he was able to be a part of has had a huge impact on his current success as a business owner. 知道面试他的人实际上是ID行业的一部分，这次经历不仅仅是亲身体验； it made it “fairly similar to real life.”

For Novacek, who was able to participate in internships as well as work in the industry before graduation, he feels thankful that the opportunities he received at 太阳城娱乐官网 helped him graduate without feeling a ‘huge shock” when he entered “the real world” of business.

这方面的知识解释了为什么他已经聘请了几个太阳城娱乐官网 Lopers为他在科尔尼温电气工作。 他目前有两个太阳城娱乐官网校友为他工作，以及当前ID学生和当前供应链管理的学生。 As a business owner, he knows that “you get a lot of blue-collar hard-working kids” from 太阳城娱乐官网. He appreciates that these students “also have the social intelligence” that is needed to work in his sales department. He credits 太阳城娱乐官网’s ID program for “putting Grade-A people in front of companies” that want to hire them. For Novacek, who turned down a job offer to open his own business after last year’s graduation, he is well aware of the talent being piped out of 太阳城娱乐官网 and into Central Nebraska and beyond.

对他来说，进入太阳城娱乐官网的ID项目是他梦想成真的开始。 He believes there’s “not a better place in the world that you could be other than Central Nebraska” and he is grateful for a career that allows him to live his best life in the town he has always called home.

尽管他目前的目标是成为自己当地公司的总裁，但诺瓦切克对自己的未来有更多的目标。 其中包括将他的业务扩展到更多的员工。 他希望大多数为他工作的人都来自太阳城娱乐官网。 毕竟，他每天都在运用自己在大学课堂上学到的东西。 他发现自己在把自己在太阳城娱乐官网学到的东西付诸实践时，会反思自己在太阳城娱乐官网学到的东西，这让他相信，他能够雇佣到有一天会像他的员工一样做同样事情的Lopers同事。

For Dr. Ben Brachle, Dr. Alejandro Cahis, Mr. Mitch Peters, and everyone else involved in 太阳城娱乐官网’s ID program, stories like this one are simply a byproduct of the focus on relationships and real-world applications that they make available to all their students. 亨特·诺瓦切克计划利用他以前的教授们的辛勤工作。 As is true for many business owners, he is grateful for 太阳城娱乐官网’s ID program, the gem hidden within the 商业与技术学院.