Virox Theatre named for Randy Pilon’s contributions to Sheridan School of Business students

February 27, 2010

Sheridan School of Business students Sonya Jenkins, Renee Harty and Sara Laurencic join Randy Pilon, right, and Dr. Jeff Zabudsky left, for the dedication of the Virox Technologies Inc Theatre.

Sheridan’s SCAET theatre was re-named the Virox Technologies Inc Theatre in recognition of Randy Pilon’s great contributions to Sheridan College and the Sheridan School of Business. Pilon, President, and CEO of Virox Technologies Inc, is a Sheridan School of Business graduate and a 2006 Hall of Fame inductee.

Pilon was the driving force and major contributor to The Virox Future Forum, designed to bring Sheridan School of Business student leaders and powerful business personalities together to discuss the future needs of employment, and to help Sheridan graduates make plans for successful careers in business.

Sheridan’s new president Dr. Jeff Zabudsky praised Pilon’s contributions to Sheridan College and The School of Business saying that it was donors like Randy Pilon and Virox Technologies Inc that help Sheridan students to “Shine Brighter”.

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Sheridan School of Business Advertising students network with industry executives at Grad Panel

February 26, 2010

Sheridan Advertising program graduates answer questions from current students about career opportunities in advertising.

More than 100 Sheridan School of Business Advertising students recently networked with program graduates now working as industry executives during the recent Sheridan Advertising Association (SAA) hosted Grad Night.  The event provided an opportunity for current Sheridan Advertising students to meet and network with Advertising graduates working in the advertising, to ask questions about career opportunities, and to get familiar with the realities of the advertising industry.

Sheridan advertising students and graduates mix and meet in the lobby outside Sheridan's Virox Theatre.

The evening began in the Sheridan College SCAET building with an informal meet and greet in the lobby, where students got up-close and personal with working graduates, followed by a lively panel discussion from 7 – 8:30 pm in The Virox Theatre, then moving to break-out areas from 8:30 – 9:30 pm where groups of students spoke with Sheridan graduates from various areas of the advertising industry in a small group setting.

“This is the kind of event we like to offer to our students – there is nothing better for current students than hearing about our graduates’ real life experiences as they begin their careers in the advertising industry,” said Peggy Barnwell, Coordinator, Sheridan School of Business Advertising Program.

Sheridan Advertising students are eager to network with their program graduates.

Sheridan Advertising graduates included, Jeff Costigan, OMD, Alana Roach, Cornerstone Group of Companies, Adam Ball, CLB Media, Vanessa Lawson, Cornerstone Group of Companies, Mike Austin, The Media Cottage, Sarah Thornley, Brandworks International Inc, Samantha Clark, Mabel’s Labels, Cristian Tesoro, J3 Canada, Serene Fattouh, Cundari Integrated Advertising, Attiya Fazal, Leisureworld Caregiving Centres, Amanda De Fields, GJP Advertising + Design, Dan Giusti, GJP Advertising + Design, Jacqueline Fell, Promotion Resource Group, Alethea Reston, Due North Communications, Brock Darling, Mediacom, Lara Ruggeri, Allard Johnson Communications.

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Virox Future Forum 2010 prepares student leaders for a future of change in the world of work

February 19, 2010

Lee-Anne McAlear

The top 10 in-demand jobs in 2010 didn’t even exist in 2004 – that’s the mantra of the 2010 Virox Future Forum, designed to prepare Sheridan School of Business student leaders for a new world of work. The Virox Future Forum offers Sheridan School of Business students the opportunity to hear tips from successful business people about how to thrive in the new business world, how to launch their career, and how to be successful in a marketplace that’s always changing.

Ian Portsmouth

“The 2010 Forum promises to be another exceptional event that will, no doubt refine the course of thinking of most, if not all, the students selected to attend with respect to the future economy, and what career choices are more likely to be sustainable in such a dynamic world,” said Randy Pilon, President, and CEO of Virox Technologies Inc.

Sean Wise

The second annual Virox Future Forum, sponsored by Virox Technologies Inc., will feature top speakers and trend spotters in the business world. Sheridan School of Business students will also get an opportunity to visit booths by Virox Technologies Inc. recruiters, Canadian Business Youth Foundation, and Sheridan’s Alumni department. In addition, three students will each receive a $1000 award from Virox Technologies Inc.

“This event will be something to reflect upon, years from now, and I suspect one will look back fondly upon the guidance given by these esteemed guest speakers,” said Pilon.

This year’s featured business speakers include Lee-Anne McAlear, Ian Portsmouth, and Sean Wise.

Lee-Anne McAlear is Program Director of Schulich’s Centre of Excellence in Innovation Management at York University and president of the Toronto based innovation house, CURRENT. McAlear is a highly regarded consultant, facilitator, speaker and training specialist. For over 20 years, Lee-Anne has worked globally with Fortune 500 and high growth entrepreneurial firms to help formulate strategy and enhance individual, team and organizational performance.

Ian Portsmouth is the editor of PROFIT: Your Guide to Business Success. PROFIT magazine has served Canada’s entrepreneurial community for over 20 years. Portsmouth has won several awards or his business writing, and is a frequent media commentator on the management issues and best practices of Canadian growth companies.

A self-confessed entrepreneur from the age of 13, Sean Wise has helped train over 3,500 entrepreneurs. He specializes in helping emerging and high growth potential organizations raise funds, turn a profit and be successful. A successful author, Wise’s latest book is How to be a Business Superhero. Wise is also known as the “Dragon’s Keeper” for his ongoing role as host and industry advisor of CBC television’s hit business reality show, “Dragon’s Den”.

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Sheridan School of Business students compete at Vanier College BDC Case Challenge Event

February 17, 2010

Left, Sheridan's David Nowell, Crystal Bennett, Jayme Bennett, Chris Carre, and Simon Restall, Director Small Business Development, ScotiaBank

Sheridan School of Business Marketing and Advertising program students competed recently in The Vanier College BDC Case Challenge held in Montreal.

“The Sheridan School of Business team were among the six finalists, winning the Scotiabank award for a second year. The battle was so fierce that it took judges an hour to determine which teams were tops and Sheridan, despite the most innovative and unique presentation, did not make the top three. The team missed one key element in the case, and the judges went with those teams which picked up on that issue,” said David Nowell, Sheridan team coach.

This year, 22 teams from colleges across Canada battled one another on February 13-14, 2010. The Business Development Bank of Canada (BDC) has been a supporter of this competition since its inception. Major sponsors also include ScotiaBank, and McCarthy Tetrault.

Sheridan School of Business students Crystal Bennett, Jayme Bennett, and Chris Carre competed in the Vanier College event. Vanier’s Case challenges are grueling encounters that demand creativity, knowledge, clear thinking, steady nerves and good presentation skills. During the competition students, in teams of three, are isolated for three hours to analyze a business problem they have never seen before, create a Power Point presentation then present a viable marketing plan before a panel of judges. The teams are judged on the practicality and value of their solutions, and the quality of their presentations.

The Vanier College Business Administration Department is host and organizer of the annual Vanier College Case Challenge, an inter-collegial marketing case competition involving colleges from Quebec , Ontario, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, and Alberta. This competition offers community college and cegep level Business Administration students a singular opportunity to apply what they learn in the classroom to a true to life business experience.

The Vanier College Case Challenge has been such a resounding success that it has grown from three colleges when it was launched by Vanier College, to a planned 22 colleges in 2010.

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Coming Events for Sheridan School of Business

February 16, 2010

Sheridan School of Business Human Resources students at the Oakville campus are setting up a stationary bike in B-wing and collecting pledges so that HRIC members can “Ride for the Cure” for the Canadian Breast Cancer Foundation to raise funds for the on-going research into its cause, prevention and cure. For four days, Feb. 16th to 19th, the bike will be in motion for 10 hours a day, in one-hour shifts, by members of the HRIC.

Sheridan’s Estheticians are offering to help out with this event by volunteering their time to give manicures at a table set up near the HRIC riders. All their proceeds will also go to the CBCF.

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On February 18, The Sheridan School of Business Accounting Student Association will host, with the Sheridan Student Union, a Mardi Gras themed pub night in The ConneXion. The purpose of the event is to raise funds to subsidize the costs of the many activities that Accounting students provide for the community. The Accounting students have numerous donations from local merchants to be given away to thank the supporters who purchase tickets to the event.

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Sheridan School of Business Accounting students in Tax Preparation Workshop

The Sheridan School of Business Accounting program students in Tax 1 and Tax 2 attended the Community Volunteer Income Tax Program workshop sponsored by the Canada Revenue Agency to prepare for the upcoming Tax Preparation Clinics where Sheridan students will have the opportunity to have their 2009 tax returns prepared for free by our volunteers. An experiential learning event!

Student sign-up for the Tax Clinics will be held on Feb 17, 19 & 22, 10:30 – 2:00, near the Tim Hortons by the Learning Commons. Sign-up for the tax clinic is mandatory to allow for the fair allocation of student tax preparation time.

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Sheridan School of Business Paralegal students raise cash and hope for ravaged survivors in Haiti

February 12, 2010

Adrea Smith, left, and Megha Ahuja offer baked goods to fellow students to raise funds for Haiti

Sheridan School of Business Paralegal students rallied around Adrea Smith to offer baked goods to raise funds for the victims of the recent earthquake in Haiti.  By the time the last cupcake was consumed, Smith and her fellow students had raised $600 with a matching donation from the Government of Canada for a total of $1200 donated to the survivors in desperate need in Haiti.

Adrea Smith, a second year Sheridan Paralegal program student was deeply concerned about the desperate need of the victims in Haiti and knew that she must make some type of donation to the cause.

“I couldn’t just sit by and do nothing for the Haitian victims so I decided what better way than to sell baked products at school that are affordable for students,” said Smith.

Smith rallied her entire family and her fellow Paralegal students together to create the bake sale.  Her son Stephaun created posters for the event, her aunt Joeta baked, and classmates Camy Duff, Megha Ahuja, Sebrina Smellie, and Michael Quelch assisted Smith in bringing the idea to fruition.  Smith also received donations from her Paralegal program professors, and from many fellow Paralegal students.

Smith asked Richard Leighton, program coordinator,  for a letter which she took to several food stores to aid in her fund-raising. She received a lot of no’s but that did not stop her.  In the end Price Chopper (Mclaughlin/Queen St. location) and Longos (Hurontario & Ray Lawson Boulevard) gave her gift cards which were used to purchase baked products from their stores.  Smith also received cash donations from Natural Cleaning Services and Traffic Ticket Links in Brampton.

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Sheridan School of Business Career Fair 2010 attracts eager students and employers

February 9, 2010

Sheridan School of Business students met with recruiters from more than 40 employers at the recent Career Fair

More than 400 Sheridan School of Business students met with recruiters from 41 local and national employers at the recent Career Fair hosted by the Sheridan Student Services Career Centre and the Sheridan School of Business.

Employers represented included The Home Depot, Scotiabank, Service Canada, The Trillium Health Centre, Belairdirect, Northwood Mortgage, Staples, BDO, The Ontario Public Service, Peel Regional Police Services, Investors Group, and many more.

Left, Roneldi Groesbeck and Melissa Waldron staff The Trillium Health Centre booth.

Several employer booths featured Sheridan School of Business graduates now working as recruitment specialists after graduating from Sheridan Business Administration and graduate certificate programs.

At the Trillium Health Centre booth Sheridan graduates included Roneldi Groesbeck, a  grad of the Human Resource Management graduate certificate program, and Melissa Waldron,  (CHRP), a grad of the Human Resources program.

Sheridan School of Business graduates Nicole Kenyon and Goran Smailagic, left, meet with business students.

At the Scotiabank recruitment booth Nicole Kenyon and Goran Smailagic are both Sheridan College graduates. Smailagic is a 2008 Business Administration – Finance Coop graduate, and Kenyon, a Personal Banking Officer with Scotiabank,  is a 2005 Sheridan College Business Administration- Accounting program, and also a Finance program graduate.

“The Sheridan School of Business prepared me well for the working world – I was offered a position with Scotiabank right after graduation,” said Kenyon.

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Sheridan School of Business – Virox Technologies Inc set to host Virox Future Forum 2010

February 5, 2010

Randy Pilon, President and CEO of Virox Technologies Inc has funded the Virox Future Forum for the Sheridan School of Business.

The Sheridan School of Business and Virox Technologies Inc are set to present The Virox Future Forum 2010, an exclusive opportunity for Sheridan School of Business students to get a glimpse of the future of work.

The second annual Virox Technologies Inc sponsored event brings together top Sheridan School of Business students with sought-after business speakers to explore the new opportunities in entrepreneurial business employment.

The Virox student-only event will be held February 25 at the Sheridan College SCAET Auditorium in Oakville from noon to 5:00 pm and will feature business speakers Lee-Anne McAlear, Program Director of Schulich’s Centre of Excellence in Innovation and President of the Toronto-based innovation house CURRENT, Ian Portsmouth, Editor of Profit: Your Guide to Business Success, and Sean Wise, author, professor, and industry advisor to the CBC television program Dragon’s Den.

“The Virox Future Forum helped me realize who I was, what my strengths were, and what goals I wanted to achieve as soon as I left the room!,” said Trevor Bodogh, 2009 Sheridan alumnus.

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Sheridan School of Business graduates score highest in provincial Human Resources certification exam

February 5, 2010

Esther Wirick and Julie Newman are congratulated by John Hardisty, Coordinator, Human Resource Management, Graduate Certificate program.

A score of 99% set Esther Wirick and Julie Newman, Sheridan School of Business graduate certificate program grads, apart from the masses in the recent National Knowledge Exam (NKE), a nationally accredited human resources exam for the Certified Human Resources Professional designation.

CHRP candidates Wirick and Newman are recent graduates of the Sheridan School of Business graduate certificate program in Human Resource Management.  The Sheridan College program offers the 9 required courses accredited by the Human Resources Professionals Association which allow program graduates to write the twice annual National Knowledge Exam which leads to the Certified Human Resources Professional (CHRP) designation to continue a career in the human resource profession in Canada.

“In the last two years Sheridan graduates have placed as top scorer as a national candidate (Sarah Nash) and twice as top scorers of Ontario candidates,” said John Hardisty, program coordinator of the Sheridan School of Business Human Resources programs.

Human Resource program coordinator Hardisty, a long time human resource professional and former president of the Halton chapter of HRPA, is currently in competition for his second 3 year term on the Board of Directors for the HRPAH.

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