Exciting Busy Week

This week has been pretty interesting and it's only Wednesday.  The Razorback football team is 3-0 after beating Georgia in an exciting game that came down to the last 15 seconds.  This moved them up to #10 in the AP Poll.  This Saturday they will be hosting the #1 team in the country, Alabama.  This is the first time since 1979 that to top 10 teams have played in Fayetteville.  The game will be nationally televised by CBS.  Kickoff is at 2:30 CDT.  As you can see, the week holds still more excitement.

Monday night we had our annual internship poster networking event.  Each MBA Candidate prepared a poster of their summer internship and stood by them as employers and others walked around to examine each poster.  The event is hosted by the Walton College Career Center (W3C), they did a great job putting it all together.

Tuesday was the College of Business Career Fair which was held in Willard J. Walker Hall.  The building was packed.  Prospective employers were stationed on the first two floors of the building.  There were around 70 companies represented at the event.  This was one of my best career fairs.  Usually I just walk around mingle with the company representatives and grab a few goodies from their tables and move on.  However, this year I went a little more proactive, pushing my own agenda.  I had resumes in hand and a nice elevator pitch to boot.  Many of the companies there were looking for interns and undergrad students graduating in May.  As I went around pitching my spiel, I told them what I was looking for and they stood there thinking where I would fit into their companies instead of vice versa.  I think made some good contacts.  I am hoping to have standing offers before the end of the semester.  That may be optimistic with the current economy, but you gotta stay positive.

Friday I am headed over to check out JB Hunt.  They are interested in hiring up to five MBA students to bring into their managerial development program.  This could be a great opportunity for our class. 

From my perspective it appears the job market may be improving.  We have many talented folks in our MBA Class, and I'm sure we'll all have offers by graduation.  Again I am being optimistic.  I do believe that some people in the current MBA Class will go on to do great things.  Only time will tell.