Meeting Minutes 4/19/2010

Monday, April 19, 2010

Call to Order: The meeting was called to order at 7:15PM

1. I. Kristan Rowan & Neema Moghadam
   1. Discussed upcoming events such as the Trail Clean up, the Laser Tag Event and Mock Interviews
   2. Business School Dean, Dr. Donald Siegal will be giving a State of the Business School address on Monday, April 26^th at 7:30 in LC 18

1. II. Catherine Kim & Kathryn Roses
   1. Presented the ABLE Banner to the club

1. III. John Levato, Assistant Dean for Alumni Relations & Development and Career Services for the School of Business
   1. Read many articles and books on resume building
   2. 10 reasons why your friends like you and 10 reasons why a recruiter should want to hire you
   3. 60 second commercial, elevator speech-changes based on where you are interviewing
   4. Selling you! What is unique about you?
      1. A waitress/waiter is a good job, have many attributes

-Well organized

-Pays attention to detail

-Pleasant

-Serve diverse clients

1. How neat is your resume?
   1. How are the margins?
   2. Is it balanced?
2. Recruiters visually attack your resume
   1. For example, the ABLE T-Shirts look good and make our organization look good
   2. If your resume is not neat or organized, it is a sign of how you will do with that company
3. The wording of your resume is extremely important. You must use good language
   1. The better you write and the better you speak, the better your resume
   2. Never use the words I, Me, or My
   3. For example:         I monitored this…..wrong

Monitored this…….correct

1. The best part of his job is his students
   1. Think about something you have done that helps someone else
   2. Motivate people to do things
2. If anyone would like to have him look over your resume, his appointment book is located in his office on the 3^rd Floor of the Business Building.

1. IV. Tracey Belgiano, Branch Sales Manager for Mainfreight Inc.
   1. Mainfreight Inc.
      1. 36 Offices in the United States
      2. Mainfreight is a travel agent for cargo
      3. $1.5 billion dollars, based out of New Zealand
      4. Offers a great Graduate Program
      5. Need to be able to handle pressure

Meeting adjourned-8:30pm

Minutes submitted by Alice Shiebler, Secretary

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