Worried about the Bear Market?  Employers are hiring Dawgs!

Please join us as we welcome approximately 100 employers from all around the United States in this Fall’s 2010 Business Career Fair.

On Tuesday, October 12th from 2pm-6pm please join us at our new and improved location, Hec Edmundson Pavilion, where hundreds of business professionals, recruiters, and employers will be eagerly waiting to meet with you and share insights about their respective companies and potential career paths. 

Each year, employers come to educate University of Washington students about their companies with the goal of hiring motivated and exceptional students from many different fields and backgrounds.  This is a fantastic opportunity to network with employers and gain interview, internship, and full-time employment opportunities.  

We greatly look forward to seeing you at Hec Edmundson Pavilion on October 12th from 2pm-6pm!

UMCA is extremely proud to host world-class speaker Scott Bedbury this upcoming Wednesday!

Scott has established himself as one of the most successful marketing and business development executives by helping take two of the world’s most iconic brands, Nike and Starbucks, to global leadership positions.

Join us as Scott highlight’s a variety of his accomplishments and the tools that made him so successful, including:

• The creation of the “Just Do It” campaign and setting industry standards at Nike for global brand positioning.

• The re-defining of the coffee commodity at Starbucks, through “experiential marketing,” store design, and product innovation.

• His work since leaving the corporate side, now working as a consultant for dozens of Fortune 500 corporations, including: Proctor and Gamble, Coca-Cola, Google, NASA, Microsoft, Visa, Kaiser Permanente, General Motors, South Africa Breweries, the US Navy, Starwood Hotels, Nokia, T-mobile, Volkswagen AG, Mars, and Mattel.

Billed as one of the best motivational and engaging speakers of this decade, this is the opportunity of a lifetime and one no student should miss! All University of Washington students are welcome. More information about his accomplishments can be found here:

Bedbury Bio

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Date Wednesday, May 26th
Time 7 – 8 pm
Room Balmer 213
Dress Business Casual (required)
Dinner Jimmy Johns & refreshments
Questions uwumca@gmail.com

Join UMCA this Wednesday at 7pm as they welcome PricewaterhouseCoopers! PwC is an international services firm with an impressive list of clients. Speakers at this week’s meeting include:

Girish Patwardhan, Advisory Services Manager
Ryan Caruso, Advisory Services Associate
Bri Belur, Pacific Northwest Sourcing Manager

Topics covered will include the various roles within the firm in addition to Advisory Internship information and tips for Fall recruiting.

Additionally, PwC will be walking us through a fresh and dynamic business case they have developed for our group. Come out and show your analytical skills while enjoying a free dinner and interaction with industry professionals!

Anyone who is interested in consulting and business in general does not want to miss this opportunity! Questions can be directed to uwumca@gmail.com .

Case Materials:  Please print this out and read it briefly prior to the meeting – bring it with you!

PwC Case Materials – 5.19.10

Date:                Wednesday, May 19th
Room:              Balmer 213
Time:               7-8 pm
Dinner:            Free!
Dress:              Business Casual
Attendance:    Open to all UW Students, all grade levels

Who: Demetri Themelis, UBS Investment Banking

Where: Balmer 213

Food: Jimmy Johns

UMCA is partnering with Ernst Young to co-host the first annual Ernst Young/UMCA case competition.  The case will be a live case with one of EY’s Advisory clients.  The winning team will be taken out to dinner by several EY partners and recruiters!

What: Ernst Young/UMCA Case Competition

Who: Open to any year or major

When: Cases will be distributed on Wed. April 7th.  Teams will present on Fri. April 9th

Prize: Dinner with Ernst Young Advisory Partners and recruiters

Restrictions: Teams must be 4 members, one of which must be an underclassmen.

To Apply: email uwumca@gmail.com by Fri. April 2nd

]]> http://www.uwumca.com/?feed=rss2&p=436 0 http://www.uwumca.com/?p=430 http://www.uwumca.com/?p=430#comments Sun, 21 Feb 2010 23:43:39 +0000 pfantham http://www.uwumca.com/?p=430 UMCA will partner with this spring’s Global Business Brigade team to hear from Lumana Credit.  Lumana Credit is a micro-finance group started by UMCA alumni!

http://www.lumana.org/

When: Tuesday, Feb. 23 @ 7pm

Where: Balmer 207

Attire: Business Casual

]]> http://www.uwumca.com/?feed=rss2&p=430 0 http://www.uwumca.com/?p=416 http://www.uwumca.com/?p=416#comments Tue, 09 Feb 2010 09:24:18 +0000 pfantham http://www.uwumca.com/?p=416 The UMCA and the BUILD Program will welcome the President of Driva Solutions and author of “The Best Service is NO Service”, Bill Price. Mr. Price was the first VP of Global Customer Service at Amazon.com. Before Amazon.com, Bill started out working for McKinsey & Company in San Fransisco and Stockholm. Bill later worked as a VP at MCI.

Bill Price

Wednesday, February 10th from 7-8pm.  Exec. Ed Building, Room 310

Business Casual, Jimmy Johns will be served

We will be meeting on February 3rd in Balmer 214 at 7pm
Food: Pizza
EST Duration: 45 Minutes

The meeting is geared toward new members but all are welcome to come – it will count as meeting attendance. The meeting will be short, come in Casual dress (street clothes)