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.
