Career Services
Friday, February 10, 2017 by
UIC Business Scholar Alex Alderman, a finance major in his junior
year, hasn’t wasted any time diversifying his resume. In the summer
of 2015, Alderman began interning at Shiftgig. This summer, he
moves on to an internship at BMO Harris. It all started by
connecting with other Business Scholars. “Had I not been networking
among the Business Scholars, I wouldn’t have gotten the Shiftgig
job,” he says. “I was lucky to meet another Scholar who already had
their foot in that door.” Shiftgig, a...
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Wednesday, January 25, 2017 by
Samu Thomas, BS ’16, has one piece of advice for UIC Business
students: find your area of interest and focus. Thomas works as an
IT consultant for Maven Wave Partners, where consultants like
himself help clients like Nike, US Foods, Bosch, and other familiar
names stay up to speed in the digital marketplace. Thomas found
this work–and the IDS degree that led to it–after a little
soul-searching of his own. “Early on in college, I was doing
electronic and communications engineering,” Thomas says....
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Friday, November 4, 2016 by
Amy Guo is a full-time MBA candidate graduating from UIC Liautaud
next spring. Guo brings her combined backgrounds in business
analytics and digital advertising to her marketing concentration at
Liautaud. In this post, she shares her internship experience at BMO
Harris from this past summer. In February of 2016, Jeff Wilson at
the Business Career Center emailed us about internship
opportunities at BMO Harris, so I took the first step toward
applying, emailing the hiring manager at BMO Harris to...
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Friday, October 21, 2016 by
Rachel Kim, BS ’16, is a Technical Recruiter at OtterBase. Kim
shares her insights below about how veterans can emphasize their
strengths when circulating their resumés. Two veterans featured in
this article are UIC students – Brian (MBA grad) and Michael
(current MBA candidate at UIC). The skills that lead to success in
the military can lead to success in business, which is why business
schools, recruiters, and firms are on the lookout for veterans.
Veterans on the job market enjoy the respect...
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Thursday, September 8, 2016 by
Karthik Sundar is a full-time MIS candidate graduating from UIC
Liautaud this year. Sundar earned his B.Tech in Communications
Engineering from SASTRA University in India, and has been working
in the security industry with the goal of moving into marketing and
CRM analytics. He recently interned for ADT, a leading provider of
security and automation solutions for homes and businesses in the
United States and Canada. Sundar sat down with our student writers
at the beginning of the Fall 2016...
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Friday, June 3, 2016 by
On any given weekday, a handful of analysts are working in an
office above North Wacker Drive, collecting current data on over
200,000 railcars scattered across North America, the fleet of the
TTX Company. Freight is constantly in motion, and this means data
is constantly pouring in. Miranda Powell, a senior at UIC Business,
is one of the analysts who makes sense of it all. “A railcar goes
over alerts on the tracks, and we get data from each axle or
'truck' on each car,” says Powell. “Alerts...
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Monday, May 9, 2016 by
Four years ago, Richard Lekakh was a freshman at Northeastern
Illinois University taking the necessary steps toward a career in
education. "I was gearing up to become a schoolteacher," Lekakh
says, "and I was looking forward to it. But then, by chance, I took
an internship at Water Tower Financial Partners." The glimpse into
the business world led him to change gears, and change schools,
too. Fast-forward to the present: Lekakh is going into his
senior year at UIC Business, and just returned...
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Thursday, April 28, 2016 by
by Saif Sarvana I’m an intern at the Chicago Mercantile Exchange
and a junior at UIC Business, though I’m just now finishing my
second semester here. I transferred from the College of DuPage over
the summer of 2015. Why did I transfer to UIC? The short answer is
the value of the UIC Business program. What does that mean? Well,
here’s the long answer. I was curious about markets and finance
from an early age, and I’ve been investing for a long time. I
bought my first stock when I was twelve. I...
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Thursday, March 10, 2016 by
UIC Business Scholars met this morning at a restaurant near campus
for their mid-semester check-in, an opportunity for the Scholars to
reconnect with their mentoring families and take a break from
studying for midterms. Collegiate Association of Business Scholars
(CABS) members, upperclassmen and the Assistant Director of the
Business Scholars Program were on hand to provide feedback, answer
questions and catch up more generally over pizza. The UIC Business
blog caught up with senior Scholar...
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Thursday, December 10, 2015 by
It’s hard to imagine anymore how “searching for the right college”
could mean searching in any way other than online. And as students
sift through the many schools they could apply to, they inevitably
glance at rankings. “The Best Business Schools List,” “America’s
Best Business Schools,” “The Best MBAs of 2015” - rankings have
proliferated to the point that we can no longer consult just one,
if we’re going to consult any at all. Colleges covet these
rankings, despite their overabundance, and...
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Monday, October 19, 2015 by
Do's Do explore different majors, Chicago and who you are. Your
next few years depend on the type of choices you make and who you
become. It is time for you to explore and learn more about
yourself. If you came with a major, is that really what you want to
do? Do you know what type of work you will be doing once you
graduate? Do you know which classes you need to take beyond the
core classes? Below are a few questions you can ask yourself. You
might not know all the answers, but by asking the...
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Tuesday, October 6, 2015 by
On the evening of Thursday, October 1, the UIC Graduate Marketing
Association (GMARK) hosted a conversation with Larry Byrne, Senior
Partner and Chief Production Officer for Ogilvy & Mather. The
event, put together by Jeffrey Wilson of UIC Business Career
Services, was part of the MBA Career Topics series, which is
designed to give Liautaud students a view from the C-suite by
introducing them to executives from Chicagoland firms. Byrne is not
only an exec at a Chicago firm, he’s also a lifelong...
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Monday, September 28, 2015 by
Each September, the UIC Business Accounting Club invites students
and recent graduates of UIC to Meet the Firms, an opportunity
to gain an introduction to Chicago’s professional accounting
community and to learn about work opportunities in the field. On
last Monday, September 21, students and recent alumni spent the
afternoon in the Illinois Rooms of Student Center East with over 30
firms from the Chicagoland area, including the Big Four: Deloitte,
KPMG, Ernst & Young and PricewaterhouseCoopers. ...
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Friday, September 18, 2015 by
What: UIC Business Career Fair When: Monday, September 21 from
11:00a.m. to 2:00p.m. Where: UIC
Student Center East, Illinois Room The internet has
radically changed the job hunt. Not only does the idea of handing
out resumes downtown seem quaint; even the print classifieds feel
like an unreliable place to look for work. The prevalence of
digital classifieds and online job boards has both simplified the
job search and made the process almost entirely Web-based. But
those who have...
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Monday, September 14, 2015 by
Hello my UIC Ladies! I know that many of us just finished
swapping our resumes for company business cards
(http://blog.business.uic.edu/business-cards-101) from the
Business Career Center's Spring 2015 Career Fair! I hope many of
you had a chance to chat with lots of companies and hopefully snag
some interviews for spring/summer internships. As you're waiting
for that phone call/ follow-up email reply, you should start
thinking wardrobe REVAMP! "Gaby, why would we think that?"
Once those...
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Monday, September 14, 2015 by
Welcome to Business Cards 101! In this crash course, you will know
all there is needed to know about business cards.
Materials: 1. A company you will buy from (Vistaprint
is recommended because they have lots of deals like 100 cards for
$8!) *Click on deals to see what we are talking about
;) 2. Your bio shortened to a few sentences/phrases 3. Money
to purchase the cards 4. A business card holder (nice, but not
needed) 5. Networking skills, so you can actually put these
cards to use! ...
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Monday, September 14, 2015 by
Where did you grow up? I grew up in Hyde Park, just a few blocks
from where my restaurant is now located. What prompted you to
choose UIC? Did you enroll knowing you'd major in business? I chose
UIC because of the great value of education offered at competitive
prices. In UIC I saw a $4,000 per year school (at the time)
whose degree was respected as well as the $20,000 per year
schools. I knew I would be a business major. At that
point in my life I went to college for one reason - to increase...
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Monday, September 14, 2015 by
Each year the Business Alumni Association (BAA) sponsors events
that range from networking happy hours to behind the scene looks at
Chicago-area businesses and cultural institutions to community
service events. These activities are a fun way to stay
involved with UIC after graduating and a great idea for current
students to get involved now. Meeting with and building
relationships with alumni can polish your communication skills and
create the connections you need to secure a job later.
If...
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Monday, September 14, 2015 by
College is a busy time for everyone. Whether you are
attending full time or part time, the days fill with homework,
group projects, work, internships, family, student org meetings and
more. As a result, thinking about the job search often gets
pushed to the back burner until well into a student's last year.
Lindsay Olson, a PR and recruiting specialist, has great tips for
current students to implement from the very beginning of their
college career - check out her blog post to learn more. In...
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Monday, September 14, 2015 by
Chris Kearney, BS Marketing '09 Entrepreneur and owner of College
Rising Photo Credit: Erica Minix Where did you grow up? I grew up
in the west burbs of Chicago in Burr Ridge and Willow Springs. What
prompted you to choose UIC? Did you enroll knowing you'd major in
business? I came to UIC as a transfer student from the College of
DuPage and Joliet Junior College. My two school options were
UIC and UIUC. I had a few close friends at each school, but thought
UIC was a great value compared to...
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