{"id":10669,"date":"2011-01-06T10:18:22","date_gmt":"2011-01-06T14:18:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/?p=10669"},"modified":"2014-11-14T15:59:46","modified_gmt":"2014-11-14T20:59:46","slug":"winds-of-opportunity-blow-for-fiu-business-students","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/2011\/01\/winds-of-opportunity-blow-for-fiu-business-students\/","title":{"rendered":"Winds of Opportunity blow for FIU business students."},"content":{"rendered":"

Consistently ranked by Hispanic Business<\/em> as one of top 10 business schools for Hispanics, it\u2019s no surprise that the College of Business Administration at Florida International University (FIU) would have a strong presence at the National Society of Hispanic MBAs (NSHMBA) Annual Conference & Career Expo. The 2010 event, held in Chicago—the \u201cWindy City\u201d—and titled \u201cWinds of Opportunity\u201d turned out to be aptly named for the 40 graduate students from FIU who were among the more than 7,000 attendees.<\/p>\n

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Kelly Gomes, Lenys Camacho, Paola Meignen, Miguelangel Faria and James Boykin<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

\u201cOur students secured more interviews than in past years,\u201d said Elsie Florido <\/strong>(MSHRM \u201909) associate director, career management services in the College of Business Administration. \u201cThey interviewed or attended receptions at Abbott, Bank of America, Cintas, Dell, Deloitte, Diageo, Disney, Ford, Humana, IBM, Johnson Controls, Microsoft, Medtronic, OSI Restaurants Republic Services, Sarah Lee, United Health and United Technologies among others.\u201d<\/p>\n

According to Barry Shiflett<\/strong>, director, career management services, \u201cThere is no question that many of the employers attending now know who FIU\u2019s College of Business Administration is versus seven years ago. That recognition comes through our participation on the NSHMBA Corporate Advisory Board and in the number of students attending each year. The team from the business school also continues to meet and develop relationships with company representatives.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Barry Shiflett, director, career management services, with two of the 40 FIU students who took advantage of the recruiting opportunities afforded by the conference.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Students gain recognition, knowledge.<\/em><\/p>\n

The event included a career expo at which nearly 300 corporate, academic, non-profit and government sponsors had booths, and a scholarship luncheon, at which the recipients of this year\u2019s NSHMBA Scholarship Program were recognized, including Veronica Vainrub<\/strong>, a student in the International MBA (IMBA) program.<\/p>\n

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IMBA student Veronica Vainrub was recognized as the recipient of a NSHMBA scholarship.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

IMBA student Rafael Enrique Ramon De Los Rios<\/strong> ran out of the 30 r\u00e9sum\u00e9s he brought, landed an interview and learned valuable lessons.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe most interesting opportunities I found are with companies I didn\u2019t know and therefore overlooked,\u201d he said. \u201cAlso, I learned that no day is too early to start looking.\u201d<\/p>\n

In addition, Oscar de Lima<\/strong> (IMBA \u201910), was featured in an article titled \u201cInternational students with MBAs struggle to land jobs in U.S.<\/a>,\u201d which appeared in the Chicago Tribune<\/em>. <\/strong><\/p>\n

The 2012 NSHMBA Conference & Career Expo<\/strong> will take place in Orlando, Florida and FIU\u2019s College of Business Administration will be the lead academic host.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Consistently ranked by Hispanic Business as one of top 10 business schools for Hispanics, it\u2019s no surprise that the College of Business Administration at Florida International University (FIU) would have a strong presence at the National Society of Hispanic MBAs (NSHMBA) Annual Conference & Career Expo. The 2010 event, held in Chicago—the \u201cWindy City\u201d—and titled […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":71,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[388],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10669"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/71"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10669"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10669\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23913,"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10669\/revisions\/23913"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10669"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10669"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10669"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}