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February 25, 2015May 15, 2015

Executives offer career tips

Elise McClure, left, and Eileen Frack, center, listen as Angelina Lusetti addresses the audience.

A trio of executives, all College of Business graduates, spent an hour Monday afternoon fielding questions and offering career tips to about 40 students during a panel discussion in the Austin Hall Events Room.

The panel included Angelina Lusetti, a human resources business partner with Target; tax attorney and retired Starbucks vice president Elise McClure, and Eileen Frack, director of executive management development for Daimler Trucks North America.

The session started with suggestions for applying and interviewing:

Find a way to make your interview answers stand out from everyone else’s.
Be aware that prospective employers are looking at the entire resume, not just grade-point average.
Research the organization you’re interviewing with before you go in for the interview.
Say you really want the job and why you’d be great at it.
Hone your face-to-face communication skills and writing skills, both of which can suffer from too heavy a day-to-day reliance on text messaging.
Take pains to come across as a good, friendly person, since many organizations have a strict no-jerks hiring policy.

The talk then shifted to how to establish yourself in your career and move it forward, and the array of tips centered around one key theme: “Manage your own career and compensation,” said McClure, meaning it’s up to you to try to make things happen regarding advancement and raises, because if you don’t, likely no one will.

Other thoughts from McClure:

“Don’t be afraid to move.”
“Understand the culture of your company.”
“Be willing and able to ask questions.”
“Be open to what comes,” as in, don’t become hidebound by the career plan you’ve mapped out.

Frack stressed the importance of learning how to say no and trying hard not to work for bosses you don’t like or respect. She also urged students to “find what feeds your soul” and to establish a healthy work/life balance, including serving on boards of volunteer groups, both for community benefit and to develop leadership skills.

Lusetti emphasized balance too, noting that she puts personal activities on her calendar as a means of holding herself accountable to actually doing them. She also told students to be willing to step outside of their comfort zones as a path toward learning and growth.

The Career Success Center organized Monday’s event. For more career advice, drop by the center, Austin Hall 102, and follow it on Facebook, https://www.facebook.com/OSUBIZJOBS.

About 40 students attended the panel discussion.

February 20, 2015May 15, 2015

OSIG hosts UO counterpart

Presenter Katie Merrill talks with schoolmates and students from the UO at the breakfast portion of the meeting.

You wouldn’t know it from her stylish print dress, but fashion is not a passion for Katie Merrill.

Nevertheless, there the OSU senior was Friday morning, giving an analysis of high-end design company Michael Kors to about four dozen of her peers in an Austin Hall classroom during a joint meeting of the Oregon State Investment Group and the group’s counterparts from the University of Oregon.

“It was kind of nerve-wracking with everyone here,” Merrill said after her 30-minute presentation, during which she recommended both schools’ clubs invest in Michael Kors. “But it’s always fun to present to the combined group. The questions are different.”

Merrill, double-majoring in finance and industrial engineering, said she spent a month preparing for Friday, her fourth such presentation overall.

Her talk, delivered to a dressed-for-success audience, followed a presentation by Oregon’s Matthew Eden and Michael Lyford, who had analyzed Infoblox, a company that deals in IT management tools.

The student investors had no shortage of follow-up questions for the presenters, many of them pointed.

Afterward one of the questioners, the UO’s Graham Simon, a math major, explained: “Someone has to dig into the numbers and find the pressure points.”

The presentations by Lyford, Eden and Merrill came after other club members had given overviews of each group’s three portfolios: Tall Firs, Svigals and DADCO for the University of Oregon, and Large-Cap, DADCO and Russell 2000 Synthetic for Oregon State; DADCO, which stands for the D.A. Davidson Student Investment Competition, features 20 schools throughout the West, each of which is given $50,000 each September to manage. OSIG is the defending champion, having last year turned that $50K into $69,014.35.

The Large-Cap portfolio, which originated with $1 million in funds from the OSU Foundation in October 2008, is now worth $1,944,561.86.

The Oregon State Investment Group meets every Friday from 8 to 10 a.m.

February 13, 2015September 30, 2015

‘Disruption’ rocks campus via TEDx

Emily Calandrelli talked about the importance of STEM education.

Organizers and speakers take the stage one final time at the event's close. — Organizers and speakers take the stage one final time at the event’s close.

Can anyone really afford to be STEM-illiterate, or complacent in the fight against pseudo-science?

Are you passionate, dedicated and ready to connect with like-minded collaborators and leverage the power of big institutions?

When bionic arms and legs are better than natural ones, how will we feel about it?

Those were a few of the questions posed to a capacity crowd of 1,200 at the LaSells-Stewart Center on Feb. 12 during TEDxOregonStateU, the theme of which was “Disruption: Revolutionary and influential ideas worth spreading.”

College of Business student Aaron LaVigne, along with College of Science student Dustin Hernandes and recent OSU graduate Vinay Bikkina, organized the event. It featured five speakers, plus two TED videos, and challenged the audience to think in ways they possibly hadn’t before, such as:

Is while you’re still single the best time to work on your marriage?

Are mobile phones a game-changer for the financial services industry?

Do you know when it’s time to “drop the mic” and walk away?

“The topics were interesting and thought provoking,” said Alex Howell, a College of Business junior. “And I thought the taped TED talks were great too. That Malcolm Gladwell talk, I’ve probably seen it 10 times. He’s my favorite author.”

Gladwell spoke about how market researcher Howard Moskowitz changed the American food industry’s approach to meeting consumer needs, from a universal strategy to a taste-specific one, via a detailed study of spaghetti sauce. The other video featured psychologist Meg Jay, who specializes in helping people not to look at their 20s as a throwaway decade.

The live speakers were aerospace engineer and TV producer Emily Calandrelli, who talked about the importance of STEM literacy; Grameen Foundation Technology Center director David Edelstein, who predicted mobile phones will change the way people bank; fashion designer Michelle Lesniak, who described the emotive power of clothes; OSU Honors College student Matthew Kaiser, who spoke on bioengineering while asking if humanity is “ready for an upgrade”; and HRH Media Group president Hanson Hosein, who talked about the value of passion, dedication, collaboration and knowing when it’s time to “drop the mic” and walk toward your next challenge.

“There was something that related to everybody,” said Jessica Keune, who’s pursuing a Ph.D. in nutrition and bone health. “It’s great to get students and the general public together for these types of events.”

The “Disruption” discussion continues on Twitter, #mydisruption, and Facebook, www.facebook.com/TEDxOregonStateU.

Organizers Dustin Fernandes, left, and Aaron LaVigne flank speaker Matthew Kaiser.

February 9, 2015February 10, 2015

Check out TEDxOregonStateU

College of Business student Aaron LaVigne, left, has teamed up with College of Science student Dustin Fernandes, right, and recent Oregon State graduate Vinay Bikkina to organize the TEDx event.

College of Business student Aaron LaVigne has teamed up with College of Science student Dustin Fernandes and recent Oregon State graduate Vinay Bikkina to put together a TEDx event that has sold out the LaSells-Stewart Center’s 1,200-seat Austin Auditorium.

TEDxOregonStateU, a series of short talks on the theme of disruption, starts at 6 p.m. Thursday. Independently organized TEDx events feature talks, demonstrations or performances that foster learning, inspiration and wonder. Ticket sales have been brisk to hear the lineup of speakers:

Emily Calandrelli, a co-producer and host of Fox’s new show, “Xploration Outer Space,” who works to scientific literacy and women in science, technology, engineering and math.
David Edelstein, senior vice president of global programs at Grameen Foundation and director of the Grameen Foundation Technology Center.
Hanson Hosein, the director of the communication leadership graduate program at the University of Washington and president of HRH Media Group.
Michelle Lesniak, the season 11 winner of “Project Runway.”
Matthew Kaiser, an undergraduate student at OSU, who is working toward an honors degree in microbiology with minors in Spanish, chemistry and toxicology.

Tickets are $20, or $15 for students. Tickets and additional information are available at www.oregonstate.edu/TEDxOregonStateU.

February 3, 2015February 23, 2015

Employers, BIS students get together

Oberto Brands booth — BIS student Sukhpreet Singh, left, speaks with Oberto Brands representative Felicity Pau.

Business information systems students and representatives from 23 private- and public-sector organizations came together at the CH2M HILL Alumni Center the evening of Tuesday, Feb. 3, for their annual Meet the Firms event.

Meet the Firms is a networking opportunity for Oregon State’s roughly 150 BIS students and potential employers from around the state.

The College of Business’ Career Success Center hosts the event.

Participating organizations were Cambia Health Solutions, Con-way Enterprise Services, Daimler, Deloitte & Touche, Huron Consulting Group, IBM, Jive Software, KPMG, Mu Sigma Inc., Nike, Northwest Evaluation Association, Oberto, PricewaterhouseCoopers, Rubicon International, Providence Health Systems, Samaritan Health Services, The Standard, TEC Equipment, TKW and Zones, as well as the city of Portland, the Oregon Legislature and OSU.

Ojes Athyantha and Thomas Keough were two of the approximately 100 students in attendance. Keough was interested in Daimler, where a cousin had interned, whereas Athyantha gravitated early on toward Mu Sigma.

“They kind of do their own kind of consulting, do their own thing with big data and business analytics,” Athyantha said. “It looks interesting. I’m going to take a look.”

Meet the Firms provides students a chance to sell themselves to potential employers, including telling them about projects undertaken through OSU’s Students of Information Management Club. SIM Club aims to provide real-world problem-solving opportunities designed to make them profession-ready upon graduation. SIM Club meets at 6 p.m. Tuesdays in Austin Hall 270.

For more information about BIS, contact program coordinator Rene Reitsma at Rene.Reitsma@bus.oregonstate.edu. Byron Marshall, byron.marshall@bus.oregonstate.edu, is the faculty advisor for SIM Club.

For more on the Career Success Center, drop by the CSC office at Austin Hall 102, or visit http://business.oregonstate.edu/careers.

BIS crowd. — About 100 BIS students turned out to meet with representatives from 23 organizations.

January 28, 2015February 23, 2015

Internships: The ins and outs

Yuan Feng Chao addresses the audience as fellow panelists Tyler Kluempke, left, and Keenan Seguancia listen during the Students Speak Out event on Jan. 27.

Don’t be afraid to ask questions, and come up with at least one to ask every day.

Find a mentor.

Anticipate interview questions and practice answering them.

Research the company well in advance.

Lose your ego and be ready to learn from everyone in the company.

Develop your communication skills, both the formal and informal ones.

Understand that you’ll likely be asked to do at least some amount of grunt work.

Those were among the internship lessons passed along Jan. 27 by an eight-member panel during Students Speak Out. The Career Success Center organized the event, the first of its kind, and the near-capacity audience of about 50 in the Robert Family Events Room included a mix of majors and grade levels ranging from freshmen to MBA candidates.

Senior panelist Keenan Seguancia praised the first-year students for taking the initiative to learn about internships so early in their college careers and wished he had done the same thing. Seguancia, a business information systems/accounting major, interned with Nike in summer 2014.

In seeking out internships, Seguancia emphasized using the Career Success Center – “They search for opportunities for us day in and day out,” he said – and to research companies to see if their core values and mission statement align with those of the prospective intern. He also stressed the value of joining clubs on campus both for the resume-building and networking value.

Other panelists’ internship firms included Neil Kelly, Daimler Trucks North America, Enterprise Rent-A-Car, Naked Wines, Mutual of Enumclaw, Olah Inc. and Robert W. Baird & Co.

Tiga Evans, a sophomore majoring in merchandising management and sustainability, spoke of being ready for whatever questions the interviewers might ask, including in her case, “Why do you want to work for this company?” and even “What is your favorite movie?”

Taylor Wobig, a senior in interior design, urged students not to exaggerate their skills when interviewing, and she also offered a networking tip: When you receive someone’s business card, write down additional information about the person on the back of the card for future reference.

Students Speak Out audience. — About 50 students of varying majors and class levels attended.

And Hannah Taylor, a senior in finance, reminded the students that while internships provide for a variety of interesting and challenging responsibilities, they’re not all glamorous ones.

“Know you might be doing grunt work at the beginning,” she said. “It’s what you’re there for.”

For more information about internships, visit the Career Success Center, Austin Hall 102, and also like the center on Facebook, https://www.facebook.com/OSUBIZJOBS.

January 14, 2015February 23, 2015

Use LinkedIn to your networking advantage

LinkedIn workshop. — Justin Leuck and Carolyn Hoard listen to Career Success Center advisor Tamara Mitchell talk about networking.

Look and sound like a professional.

Ask to be endorsed.

Don’t embellish your capabilities, or worse, make things up.

Don’t include personal information in your profile that you don’t want prospective employers to know about.

Take the time to research groups and then join the ones that seem the most valuable.

These were all among the lessons Wednesday afternoon as career advisor Tamara Mitchell conducted a student workshop in the College of Business’ Career Success Center on how to use LinkedIn, a social networking site aimed at career building.

Mitchell said data from the U.S. Department of Labor show that 75 percent of all jobs in this country are obtained through some form of networking, highlighting the importance of using every type of available tool for making connections with prospective employers.

LinkedIn gives users the opportunity to network with vast numbers of professionals in their field and related ones, provides excellent job search and company research capabilities, and perhaps best of all, it allows organizations to actively and efficiently hunt for job-seekers as they try to fill openings.

“People are going to search for you,” Mitchell said. “You might as well make it easy on them.”

Workshops are scheduled for 3 p.m. at the CSC two of the next three Wednesdays as well. On Jan. 21, the topic is “How to be competitive in the job market.” On Feb. 4, students will learn more about networking skills.

For more information on the Career Success Center and its workshops, visit http://business.oregonstate.edu/careers or drop by the CSC, Austin Hall 102.

Tamara Mitchell — Mitchell explains the best ways to use alumni connections in your job search.

January 9, 2015January 9, 2015

Accelerator clients give progress updates

Corrosion control.

Stan Baker talks about his company, Baker Seed, which produces nutrient-coated grass seed.

The safe storage of energy.

Sustainably produced sunglasses and ski goggles.

Four-legged military robots whose motion replicates the efficient gait of animals.

Those were just a few of the presentation topics the evening of Thursday, Jan. 8, at the Majestic Theatre in downtown Corvallis as the Oregon State University Advantage Accelerator held its first Demo Day.

The event’s aim was to bring together current and future clients for a night of networking and getting the word out regarding their technologies and business operations to an audience that included state Sen. Lee Beyer and various members of the OSU College of Business, including Dean Ilene Kleinsorge.

Beyer, a Democrat from Springfield who represents District 6, led the $3.75 million funding effort in 2013 that created the South Willamette Valley Regional Accelerator Network, known as RAIN, which has locations in Corvallis and Eugene; those cities, along with Albany and Springfield, are partners in the network as well.

OSU Advantage Accelerator co-directors Mark Lieberman and John Turner hosted the event, at which each member of the fall 2014 Accelerator cohort was asked to give a seven-minute presentation about his product, the technology behind it, the status of the business, and projections about short- and long-term growth and profitability.

The fall cohort includes Agility Robotics, Baker Seed, Bosky Optics, KW Associates, NRGindependence and TAPs, a stainless steel surface modification technology business whose motto is “Solving the World’s Corrosion Problem One Piece of Metal at a Time.”

After the presentations, Lieberman and Turner presented four awards. The Archimedes Award went to Accelerator intern Brady Finkenauer, a wealth management MBA student; the Chasing the Bone Award went to Alex Cruft and Matthew Miner of Bosky Optics; the Pounding the Pavement Award went to Stan and Glenda Baker of Baker Seed, whose product is grass seed coated in nutrients for optimum germination and health; and the Entrepreneur of the Year Award went to Paul King of KW Associates, which aims to solve safety and efficiency problems in the specialty metals and industrial microwave industries.

After the fall 2014 cohort presentations, members of the winter 2015 cohort spoke for a minute or two each outlining the technologies they’d be bringing to Accelerator for commercialization assistance. They’ll get a chance for longer presentations at the next Demo Day, a date for which has not yet been set.

Mark Lieberman and John Turner. — OSU Advantage co-directors Mark Lieberman, left, and John Turner were the Demo Day hosts.

December 16, 2014February 23, 2015

Ten steps toward the right career path

Bart Cleveland has developed branding for a broad range of companies.

Fall term is a good time to begin thinking about a summer internship and researching what needs to be done to be competitive. One way to do that is to attend presentations by professionals.

During most weeks of the term, the Career Success Center offers the opportunity to meet with professionals, learn about their industry and get tips about how to prepare for internship and job searches.

This fall, Bart Cleveland was one of the first professionals to meet with students in Austin Hall’s Stirek Auditorium. Throughout his career, Cleveland has developed branding for a broad range of brands including Coca-Cola, The Ritz-Carlton and CNN. As the founder of Job Propulsion Lab, he now helps young professionals navigate marketing and advertising careers more successfully.

In a room full of College of Business students, including design, entrepreneurship, marketing and management majors, Cleveland talked about the Ten Steps to the Right Advertising or Digital Careers.

Drawing from his award-winning career as a creative director and through his success mentoring dozens of young professionals and guiding them to careers at top-tier agencies like Wieden+Kennedy, Goodby Silverstein and Mother NY, Cleveland developed the following 10 steps:

Bart Cleveland delivers his presentation. — Cleveland told the students in the audience at Austin Hall’s Stirek Auditorium to become their own brand.

Get help.
Plot your course.
Build the right portfolio.
Market yourself.
Become a brand
Stalk. Quietly.
Talk. Loudly.
Look like a pro.
Act like a pro.
Don’t blow the interview.

For the complete presentation, you can see his presentation slides via slideshare: Ten Steps to the Right Advertising or Digital Careers.

July 1, 2014July 2, 2014

Oregon State College of Business Congratulates Largest Graduating Class Yet

In 2014, a record class of nearly 5,900 students graduated from Oregon State University, 823 of which were College of Business students (with 11 students graduating from the University Honors College). About 3,800 students participated in the commencement ceremony, with an estimated 21,000 additional friends and family in attendance at Reser Stadium June 14. The Class of 2014 ranges in age from 19 to 78 and includes graduates from 35 of Oregon’s 36 counties, 49 of the 50 states, and 55 different countries.

The new mark for most graduates in a single year breaks the previous record that was established just last year by more than 600 students, and the University’s growth is a testament to the quality and value of a degree from Oregon State.

The Oregon State College of Business is proud to welcome the 823 newest members to our impressive alumni network, and we can’t wait to see what they accomplish next! With undergraduate business degree options in 10 different major areas of study, you’ll find our graduates leading and innovating in all areas of business.

Check out some of our favorite shots from commencement, and welcome us in congratulating that Class of 2014!