The School of Business Administration is seeking volunteers. Please read the descriptions below. If interested, please email Jennifer Creech at jennnifer.creech@notes.udayton.edu.

Dialogue Days

Audience: Freshman, Sophomores, Juniors, Seniors

Commitment: 1 day

This program is designed to increase the interaction between SBA alumni and our current students. The program involves bringing a significant number of alums into the classroom to share their life experiences, both good and bad, with our students. This program will provide valuable information for our current students as they decide on a specific career. The program will run during Stander Symposium on April 9, 2008.

Mentor Program

Audience: Juniors & Seniors

Commitment: Throughout the Year (October-April)

The Mentor Program provides students with a unique opportunity to develop a relationship with an alumnus, who has made a commitment of time, wisdom and expertise. This program is flexible. Some mentors and protégés will meet or talk on a regular basis, whereas others will only communicate during the formal gatherings. The mentoring relationship provides students with insight about career options. By passing on hard-earned knowledge, mentors can shape the next wave of leaders. Mentors can inform protégés about changes and advances in their field, and recommend elective courses that could benefit the student in the future. The main objective of mentoring is to encourage and assist in the development and growth of the protégé. Each mentoring relationship will be different due to the student’s needs, his or her personal interests, and the unique nature of the mentoring relationship that you develop together. Ideally, mentors will live in the Greater Dayton area and be able to travel to campus.

Speakers

Audience: Freshmen

Commitment: 1 day

The First Year Experience course, BAI 151 offers a variety of sessions for the students during the course of the winter semester. Our (your) objective is to assist students in their career choice and selection of an undergraduate major by giving them some "feel" of what you do, how you apply your education, what skills you utilize, and what process you passed through to arrive at your current position. Your commitment would be one evening (usually scheduled at the beginning of April). Each speaker should be prepared to speak for 15-20 minutes and have three to five PowerPoint slides as aides.

Networking Assignment

Audience: Freshman

Commitment: 1 email (< 2 hours of time) in the fall

Career networking is an integral factor in career success. We want our students to become familiar and comfortable with contacting and making connections to UD Alums. The students will be provided a list of alumni who have volunteered to help. The students should ask the alum about his/her job, major advice, internship possibilities in his/her career field, location, etc. The questions asked should be career related and something that is of concern or interest to the student. The assignment requires the student to submit the email and the alum’s response and a 1-2 page reflection paper on the experience.  This is also an opportunity for the students to prepare a formal businesslike email.

Resume Review

Audience: Sophomores, Juniors & Seniors

Commitment: 1 day (September and/or February)

All first year students are required to create a resume and submit it online to Hire-A-Flyer, provided through the Career Services website (careers.udayton.edu). After the resume is submitted online, we would like to provide the SBA students with another opportunity to sit down one-on-one with an individual who will be able to provide personalized feedback on content, grammar, format, layout, length and more.

Job Shadowing

Audience: Sophomores & Juniors

Commitment: at least one day during fall break (October 11-12) and/or winter break (December 13-January 4)

This is a short-term experience where the student would spend a day following a professional while he/she does his/her job. These experiences are unpaid and are not eligible for academic credit, but have a great value to a student interested in a particular career. This allows students to learn more about specific career fields, specific positions within those fields, and about themselves. The student learns about the important issues in his/her field of interest, and is exposed to what a professional in that field really does on a day-to-day basis. It also allows students to learn more about themselves as they react and respond to duties, issues, and personalities they see in the workplace.