* 95% of the grads did not have a written career plan
* 60% of the students spend only 1-5 hours per week looking for a job.
CCB majors - come up with a plan and consider doing an internship as part of that plan.
J.J. Best Banc & Co. the leader in collector automobile finance is now offering THREE paid internship positions in downtown New Bedford, MA.
1. The first position we are looking to fill is a title department intern. A title is a legal form, establishing a person or business as the legal owner of a vehicle. The titles department is responsible for assuring that each customer of J.J. BEST BANC & CO. titles their car within an appropriate time frame. As an intern in the titles department you will be responsible for tracking titles, opening and filing mail, placing phone calls to customers and interfacing with dealerships.
2. The second position we are hiring for is an Insurance Intern. As an insurance intern you will be responsible for setting up and maintaining a database of client information that is sent directly to the Hagerty Insurance Company on a daily/weekly basis. Knowledge of Excel is a MUST and some marketing experience would be beneficial.
3. The third position we are hiring for is a Marketing Intern. You will be responsible for email marketing and bulk mailing campaigns, maintaining print ads and will also assist in the coordination of special projects and other events identified by the supervisor including follow up as needed. Knowledge of all social media sites, Photoshop and HTML experience are a plus.
Blount Fine Foods Human Resources Internship
Headquartered in Fall River, MA, Blount Fine Foods is recruiting a human resources management intern for the Spring 2012 semester. This is a paid internship and qualifies for 3 credits as a business elective (assuming the student completes the online internship course concurrent with the internship). The position requires a minimum of 12 hours per week.
The company prefers a student who can commit to eight hours on Fridays and a 1/2 day (4 hours) on Monday, Tues, Wed, or Thursday. Blount is looking for a positive, upbeat, outgoing, human resource management major who is interested in a career in human resources.
The intern will be a front line assistant, helping with the initiation of a new HR system, trouble shooting problems, and supporting HR managers. Must be team oriented individual. Interested students should visit www.blountfinefoods.com to become familiar with the company and its products. Resumes should be sent to Betsy Brown at bbrown@blountfinefoods.com. Blount is a successful local company that has grown significantly in recent years and offers an intern the chance to work in the professional and entrepreneurial environment. Blount is looking to fill this position as soon as possible and the duration of the position will be till late April/early May.
Blount Fine Foods is located at 6300 Current Road, Fall River, Massachusetts
A local CPA firm is looking for a candidate needed to fill a junior staff position. This is a well-established certified public accounting firm. This is a tax season assistant to input individual tax returns into professional tax software. Direct supervision and training by an experienced partner. The partner interviews the clients and scripts computer input sheets for the junior staff person to enter and perform first review the printed tax returns. Candidate will receive training on individual tax laws including small business and fixed assets.
Eligible candidate is required to have completed at least one tax course and be needed to work at a minimum of 25 hours per week. The starting date will be January 30, 2012 through March 31 with potential training hours prior to start date.
The deadline to respond to this position will be January 13, 2012. Send cover letter and resume to contact person below:
Michele M. Hurd, EA mhurd@edsylvia.com
Over the holiday break I purchased the ebook: How to Win at the Sport of Business by Mark Cuban.
The book is only available in digital format and I paid $2.99 to read it on my new Kindle Fire. I recommend the book to college business majors and other folks who are in the verge of a business career or ready to launch a business.
One thing I like about Cuban's advice on how to win in business is his emphasis on the importance of reading. When he was starting one of his technology companies, Cuban would bring software and hardware manuals home after work and read them. He learned everything there was to know about software such as Peactree Accounting, Wordstar (once a popular word processing program), Lotus 123 (which was the popular spreadsheet software before MS Excel). He also read many magazines and books to search for new ideas. So much of this information today is free on the internet. So much knowledge is readily available to students and yet so many don't take advantage of the information. Each day while school is insession, I see stacks of free newspapers such as the USA Today, NY Times, and Boston Globe - that so many students walk by and never pick up. So many of my students don't buy the required textbooks and many who do buy them do not read them cover to cover. Take it from Mark Cuban, knowledge is power and you can get a great deal of it from reading.
Cuban is the founder of HDNet, Broadcast.com and MicroSolutions. He has also been an investor in startups, including Mahalo, JungleCents.com, motionloft.com, Filesanywhere.com, Naked Pizza and 140Fire.com. Mark is also known as the owner of the Dallas Mavericks. He also co-owns the Landmark Theater chain, Magnolia Pictures and Magnolia Home Video.
Mark Cuban also gives some terrific advice about focus while in school. He says that being focused at age 21 is "overrated." He continues..." now is the time to screw up, to try as many things as you can and just maybe figure things out." I especially like his advice on learning. He says: " The thing you need to do is learn. Learn accounting. Learn finance. Learn statistics. Learn as much as you can about business. Read biographies about business people." The lesson is to learn what you can so that you can create a base of knowledge that you can draw upon for the time in your life when you will be ready to focus.
Cuban emphasizes that if you can sell, you can always get a job. Selling skills are very valuable in all jobs. Even a CPA must sell additional services (tax planning, management consulting, personal financial planning) to grow the revenue.
Finally, for so many college students who aspire to go into the business of sports, Cuban has some very valuable advice. It is quite congruent with so many students that I have spoken with over the last 5 or 6 years who want to work in the field of professional sports. Cuban says "don't major in Sports Marketing." He says that if you want to work for a sports organization, get a broad based business education. He recommends majoring in anyone of the functional business areas - accounting, finance, sales, management etc. We (UMASS Dartmouth/CCB) have had students intern for the Boston Bruins, Gillette Stadium, Pawsox, and P-Bruins and I tell these students that it is a tough field to break into so make sure you have a very solid base with a traditional business major.
Mr. Cuban recently emailed me and asked that I share any feedback with him. Let me know if you read the book and what you think! Cuban told Fortune magazine that he wrote this book from content derived from 7 years of blogging and that the economics of the digital delivery (ebook format) and the effectiveness of social network marketing make this an interesting venture.