GET INFORMED!

With summer nearing an end (on September 22, 2009, at 5:18 PM EDT, according to the US Naval Observatory), classes coming into full swing, and your inbox being flooded with all those orgs you signed up for during the activities fair (whether you wanted to or not), we here at the CDO have yet another thing for you to add to your schedule—info sessions!

Morningstar, Inc.
Monday, September 21, 6:00 pm
Faculty Commons

Morningstar (no, not the veggie burger company) is a Chicago-based independent investment research company with offices in more than 20 countries, and they’re looking for employees to help create their growing line of software, websites, consulting services, and publications. Apparently they’re one of those “hip” companies who have a Facebook (facebook.com/MorningstarDevelopmentProgram), Twitter (twitter.com/mdps), and a YouTube (youtube.com/mstarhr). Does “tweeting” count as an action word on a resume?

PricewaterhouseCoopers
Tuesday, September 22, 5:00 pm
Faculty Commons

Jean Wyer, Class of 1970, will be coming to talk about the accounting profession, including how large companies recruit, business schools/MBAs, PwC’s new Liberal Arts Masters Program, and how they count the Oscar ballots (no, seriously). If there’s any reason to become an accountant, it’s so that you can know next year’s Best Picture winner (maybe you could be one of those guys who walks down the red carpet handcuffed to a briefcase) and score some tickets for your favorite CDO staff.

M&T Bank
Thursday, September 24, 5:30 pm
Faculty Commons

Cam-Thach Tran, Class of 2006, will be discussing M&T’s Management Development Program. Good news: M&T Bank Corporation had $65 billion in assets as of March 2009 and is one of the 20 largest bank holding companies in the U.S., with over 700 branches located in Delaware, Maryland, New York, Pennsylvania, Virginia, West Virginia, New Jersey, and Washington, D.C. Even better news: M&T Bank Stadium is home to the Baltimore Ravens. If you can’t get us tickets to the Oscars, Skybox seats to an NFL game will do.

Peace Corps
Wednesday, September 30, 5:00 pm
Faculty Commons

“Peace Corps volunteers serve in 74 countries in Africa, Asia, the Caribbean, Central and South America, Europe, and the Middle East. Collaborating with local community members, volunteers work in areas like education, youth outreach and community development, the environment, and information technology*.” Okay, fine, we guess plane tickets to Fiji/Jamaica/the Philippines will do. We’ll just tell Cappy it’s an employer research trip.
*http://www.peacecorps.gov/index.cfm?shell=learn

So, check out these info sessions (our goal is to beat the attendance of last week’s Trustees’ student forum; thank you, Misc), land a job, and just send those Oscar/NFL/exotic getaway tickets along to Box 7.