The College of Business at Southern Arkansas University (SAU) is sponsoring “Classroom to Careers,” an annual event designed to teach on a variety of topics such as how to make smart career choices, resumes, and interview techniques from 9 a.m. to noon on October 14. The theme of this year’s event is “Going in the Right Direction.”
“College of Business Dean Lisa Toms has designed this year’s program specifically to make her students more competitive with business students from other colleges and universities across the nation,” said Amber Amonette, Toms’ senior intern.
The program will feature three different sections of speakers. The 9 a.m. section is titled “Going into the Business World.” Each section will have different seminars emphasizing accounting, information technology, finance, management and marketing in order for different types of business majors to receive specific insight from people working in their intended fields.
“Going the Right Way” is the theme of the 10 a.m. section of panel discussions.
“This section will highlight the importance of diversity, “going green” and globalization. This will be the time in the history of the program that there will be a section dealing with the “going green” concept,” said Becki Talley, administrative secretary of the College of Business.
The final section of “Classroom to Careers” starts at 11 a.m. and will be dealing with “Going Professional.”
“This section will obviously deal with professionalism; it will also give SAU College of Business alums the opportunity to come back give input on what it is really like to go from the classroom to a career,” Amonette said.
The College of Business Classroom to Careers Conference originally started in 1978 under Dr. David Rankin, dean of the College of Business. The program also continued throughout Gayle White’s tenure as dean. In 2002 Dr. Terrye Stinson revamped the program and it has continued to evolve each year to help meet the current needs of College of Business students.
For more information on “Classroom to Careers,” or the College of Business, please contact Talley or Toms at 235-4300 or in BUS 345.
