Good job, Ryan

Dear Hue,

Here is an update of what has lately been going on in the Business club. This will be reliable information of the positive and negative aspects of this event to consider for next year.

Sincerely,

Ryan Olson
Knox Business Club


Dear John,

I can't put into words how much I have learned so far!! Considering all of the other homecoming activities happening simultaneously as the Alumni Event like the magician performance, homecoming dance, and Halloween parties I consider this event successful!!
Next year my goal is to double the participation by buying better quality food such as pizza (“quality” meaning more students will love), or directly ordering from subway, having the event not during Homecoming week, and inviting alumni from different generations. Since most of the current seniors already knew most of the alumni I believe this caused a drop in attendance. I will invite alumni with a wider spectrum of different majors, and generations. This will give this event a broader perspective because many alum will be at different places in their career, as well as it will attract a larger student body, and encourage students to attend because of networking opportunities.
Next year I will plan on placing an ad for consecutive weeks before the week of the Alumni Event. Did you see our advertisement in the TKS last Thursday? My news article that you helped me with wasn’t published though in the TKS. They mentioned that they do not normally place articles like this into the TKS but they will go ahead and do it. The article was not in the last TKS edition.

Sincerely,
Ryan


Here is the article that I wrote discussing the success of our event although I am worried that they will not post it:

On November 1st, 2008 in Alumni Hall of Old Main the Knox Business Club hosted “Alumni in Business” a discussion-based event which consisted of seven knowledgeable alumni answering questions on how to succeed in the competitive realities of the job-market and internships.
Alumni invited to the panel included:
*Michael Stockov (Kimberly-Clark)
*Matthew Stockov (Hewitt Associates)
*Varsh Srivatsan (Hewitt Associates)
*Sukhi Srivatsan (Wells Fargo)
*Stephanie O'Brien (HLB Communications)
*Sonali Mishra (Kirkland & Ellis)
*Erica Jaffe(Navigant Consulting)
Only a few years ago, these alumni were contemplating most of the same questions as many of the students here at Knox, “How can I find an internship?”, “How should I prepare for a job interview?” "What do I need to know?” The evening was filled with students asking a number of questions like requirements for graduate school, any restrictions pertaining to international students applying for internships, and GPA averages employers use to weed out applications. The alumni stressed the importance of four main qualities students need to learn and perfect outside of the classroom before entering the real-world:
1. Importance of networking
2. Value of communication: interviewing skills
3. Leadership skills: active participation in different organizations
4. Quality internship experience
Please join the business club next term in a variety of different activities: investment seminars, an investment competition, either a trip to Northwestern Kellogg School of Business or a tour of Caterpillar Inc and procedures in making a business plan.
11/1/08
Ryan:
Great job! My compliments. I think all in attendance took something
positive and informative away from the event. But - you are not done.
PR: you should write an article for the TKS discussing this successful
event - with pictures. Bounce me a copy of your rough draft, assuming
you agree, we need to get it inserted into the paper next week.
Also, you need to send all participants a thank you - maybe a Knox mug -
it is a good follow up practice.
Again - good job!
Regards,
John Spittell