Business Week at the Ivy College of Business kicked off Monday with a BBQ lunch on the northeast Campanile lawn. This event, which is part of an annual celebration for the school, has many opportunities and resources for Ivy students. One such resource includes Career Services, which is there to help students prepare for the Career Fair.
Elizabeth Gass, a senior in marketing, expressed that she had been involved in Business Week in past years but now she is focused on post-graduation plans.
“Because I’m looking for a full-time job, post-grad… I’m really looking for all the events and taking the most advantage of it,” Gass said.
Joshua King, a sophomore in finance and vice president of the Multicultural Business Network, helped plan events for the week. One of his highlights is the prize drawing at the end of the week. When students check into Business Week events, they not only enter themselves into an individual drawing, but they can enter their club into a drawing as well. This allows students to win money to use for their clubs.
“It’s a great motivator,” King said. “Everything is driven by incentive, but also, people really want notoriety for the things they care about at the Ivy College of Business.”
King explained how bringing in business leaders from organizations helps prepare students for their future.
“[They] come together to have a better understanding of what the students would like, what their needs are and how to better prepare them for their future endeavors,” King said.
In the afternoon, there was an employer panel sponsored by Principal Financial Group in the Kingland Hub of the Gerdin Business Building. The panel, titled “Thriving at Work: Employee Engagement and Company Culture,” offered tips for jobs post-graduation and featured panel guests from several employers.
Daphne Militti, a senior in finance, mentioned that she attended the panel and enjoyed it. She said it gave her tips on how to land her first job and what people to contact at businesses.
Katie Minnihan, an academic advisor for the Ivy College of Business, shared that this is only the second Business Week she has experienced.
“We’ve had [a] really good turnout,” Minnihan said. “I think the food is usually a motivator. So this will probably be our biggest event. We’ll have probably 500 students come.”
Minnihan mentioned several ways for students to participate, such as a T-shirt giveaway, a coffee break and a chance to win at the prize drawing on Thursday.
“Business Week provides students opportunities to get involved in various ways but also celebrates them,” Minnihan said.
Ally Butirro, a senior in marketing, said she didn’t participate in many events the year prior but is now attending as many events as she can.
“Now that I’m a senior and I want to get a job or before I wanted to get an internship, I’m going to all the networking events that I can,” Butirro said.
Learn more about Business Week at the Ivy College of Business website.
