February 23, 2011
Sheridan Tourism & Travel graduate Rebecca Schuurman
Rebecca Schuurman, a 2009 Sheridan Faculty of Business, Tourism & Travel graduate is now a Flight Attendant with WestJet.
“A recruiting representative from Westjet came and spoke to us about their company. After that workshop, I applied and got an interview,” said Schuurman.
The workshop, one of many planned by Tourism and Travel faculty to introduce their students and assist them to network with industry personnel, was part of program coordinator Victoria Renton’s Air Travel and Tariff class.
After being hired by WestJet, Schuurman waited in a pool position before being assigned as a Customer Service Representative at Hamilton Airport, and then six months later she was working as a flight attendant.
“Life as a flight attendant has it’s ups and downs – both literally and figuratively. It is not always easy being a flight attendant, but at the end of the day, a simple thank-you from one of our guests, or a compliment on a job well done make it all worthwhile in my office in the sky,” said Schuurman.
Rebecca says because of her studies at Sheridan she was able to get the contact information that she needed to apply to Westjet, and the knowledge that she needed about the airline industry.
“I will always have the skills that I learned at school, and I will always think back on the great times and friendships that were made at Sheridan. Thank-you Sheridan for helping me realize my dream, ” said Schuurman.
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February 22, 2011
Lesley Rumsby
Charlene Craddock, Operations Manager is pleased to announce that Lesley Rumsby has joined the Faculty of Business support staff as a Program Support Specialist at the Trafalgar campus. Lesley will be providing program support for several Faculty of Business programs.
Prior to joining Sheridan College, Lesley was an Administrative Assistant at The Regional Municipality of Halton and has several years experience as an office administrator with employers Man Diesel, Shred-It International and Tim Hortons. Lesley is a graduate of the Office Administration Executive (Coop) program at Niagara College.
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February 19, 2011
Sheridan Faculty of Business students
Demographics and Entrepreneurship were the main focus of the recent Virox Future Forum 2011 hosted by the Sheridan Faculty of Business and created and sponsored by Randy Pilon, President & CEO, Virox Technologies Inc. This year’s Virox Future Forum featured two diverse speakers - Sean Wise and David Foot who collectively brought a message of a future that will demand graduates to create their own new jobs and develop new markets that do not currently exist. All of which will require business graduates to learn new skills of corporate self-awareness and sustainability, a keen sense of demographics, to be practiced with a large dose of the daring and an entrepreneurial spirit.
Trevor Bodogh
Business Administration – Finance graduate and extreme athlete, Trevor Bodogh, a Bike Trials professional, brought his unique style to the Virox Future Forum with a dash of extreme sports mixed with a message of entrepreneurial spirit as he demonstrated his skills on a Trials bike and as a business speaker. This was Bodogh’s third appearance at the Virox Future Forum. During the first Future Forum, Trevor Bodogh was a student in the audience and by the time the Forum had ended he had successfully planned an audition with the Dragon’s Den and solidified plans to further his business with personal appearances at several extreme athletic events in Canada and the United States.
Lou Schizas
Master of Ceremonies, AM640 Broadcaster and Sheridan Faculty of Business professor, Lou Schizas brought his Happy Capitalism message to the student audience, underscoring the need for new business graduates to be aware of opportunities for growth and development in the marketplace. Lou Schizas is also known as the Money Guy on the John Oakley show on AM640
David Foot
Featured speaker David K. Foot, author of Boom Bust and Echo spoke to a rapt and attentive business student group about the use of demographics, with particular emphasis on rising and falling birth rates, to accurately predict the demographic group who can most influence sales of current and new products. More
Sean Wise, author of How to be a Business Superhero, a successful venture capitalist, a driving force behind Vencorps: Community Powered Capital, and a behind the scenes
Sean Wise
“Keeper of the Dragons” on the popular CBC Television series Dragons Den, spoke at length on strategies to successfully seek capital funding as an entrepreneur and the function of the entrepreneur in future business. Wise spoke to Sheridan business students about how to make an “elevator pitch” - a pitch of your business venture of no more than 2 minutes capturing all the essential information including what you will do and what you need from a venture capitalist.
David Foot, Randy Pilon and Sean Wise take questions from the audience.
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February 19, 2011
Trevor Bodogh takes to the air in a demonstration of Bike Trials at the Virox Future Forum 2011
Sheridan Business Administration- Finance graduate and extreme athlete, Trevor Bodogh, a Bike Trials professional, brought his unique style to the 2011 Virox Future Forum hosted by Sheridan College with a heaping dash of extreme sports mixed with his message of entrepreneurial spirit as he demonstrated his skills both on a Trials bike and as a business speaker.
This was Bodogh’s third appearance at the Virox Future Forum. During the first Future Forum Trevor Bodogh was an invited third year student in the audience and by the time the Forum had ended he had successfully pitched an audition with the Dragon’s Den and solidified plans to further his business with personal appearances at several extreme athletic events in Canada and the United States.
Trevor Bodogh ready for Dragon's Den
Trevor is already a sought after extreme athlete who has appeared with the Research in Motion Blackberry Flip promotion which successfully toured across Canada to promote the Blackberry flip phone. He has appeared on extreme sports television programs and toured Bike Trial events across Canada and the United States.
Bodogh spoke to Sheridan Faculty of Business students about the need to cultivate the entrepreneurial spirit in career plans to enhance the potential graduates chances of being successful in business.
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February 16, 2011
Jacci Vandergoot, David Nowell, Aashish Nathwani, Stephanie Smith
Three Sheridan College Faculty of Business students recently travelled to Montreal to compete in the annual BDC Case Challenge hosted at Vanier College. Aashish Nathwani, Advertising, Stephanie Smith, Marketing Coop, and Jacci Vandergoot, Advertising program earned a ScotiaBank Award for their efforts.
This was the largest ever BDC Case Challenge event and colleges from coast to coast took part, including College of the North Atlantic in St. John’s Nfld, and Langara and Okanagan Colleges from BC. There were 26 colleges involved, with three sets of presentations running simultaneously on Saturday. Sheridan was one of two colleges to go forward from a group of nine. Teams of three students from each college have three hours to prepare a presentation on the case.
Team Sheridan reached the finals and earned a ScotiaBank award for their efforts. This marks the third year in a row Sheridan has won a ScotiaBank award. The six finalists presented a second case on Sunday, and Sheridan just missed a top 3 finish overall.
Judges were struck by the high quality of the final presentations they saw and noted that only a few points separated the top 5 teams. The final six included three Quebec CEGEPs and three Ontario colleges. All of the Quebec presentations were in French, while all the Ontario ones were in English.
Students have been preparing for this event since early January and had two very strong presentations.
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February 13, 2011
More than 58 employers recruited at Sheridan's Business Career Fair 2011
The recent 2011 Faculty of Business Career Fair attracted more than 58 local and regional employers eager to connect with several hundred Sheridan Business students. Students from more than 20 Sheridan Faculty of Business programs jammed the Porter Athletic Facility, eager to network with potential employers and hand out resumes.
Mario Zaborski, a 1994 Sheridan Marketing graduate.
Recruiting employers included banking, financial, health care providers, marketing and sales, transportation, realty, and lifestyle providers including CIBC, Canadian Forces Recruiting Centre, Certified General Accountants, GoodLife Fitness, The Trillium Health Centre, Sun Life Financial, Minmaxx Realty Inc. DSN Transportation, Research in Motion, and Winners Merchants International.
Ammarita Mangher is a 2010 Sheridan Marketing graduate
Many employers featured Sheridan business graduates as part of their recruitment team, including, Mario Zaborski, a 1994 Marketing Coop graduate, Ammarita Mangher, a 2010 Marketing graduate and Erica Ramey, a Human Resources program graduate now recruiting for Winners Merchants International.
“It’s awesome to come back to Sheridan and be able to recruit some of the best potential graduates for your company”, said Mario Zaborski, Director of Sales and Business Development, MRS Management Reporting Systems and a 1994 graduate of Sheridan’s Marketing Coop program.
Ammarita Mangher, a 2010 Marketing program graduate was recruited at the 2010 Sheridan Business Career Fair by DSN Chemical Transportation. She is now a sales representative and recuiter for DSN.
“The Sheridan Faculty of Business Career Fair is an excellent opportunity for students to select and pursue potential employers in a professional setting”, said Mangher.
Erica Ramey is a Human Resources graduate now working in recruitment and selection for Winners Merchants International.
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February 8, 2011
Mayor Hazel McCallion
As a result of a generous donation by Randy Pilon, President & CEO of Virox Technologies Inc., William Holmes, Dean of the Faculty of Business has been able to extend an invitation to a group of 10 business students to accompany Sheridan’s president, Jeff Zabudsky, who will be presenting Mississauga Mayor Hazel McCallion with a gift from Sheridan’s glass studio in celebration of the Hazel’s 90th birthday. The 10 students, representing the programs from the Faculty of Business, will join the Sheridan Student Union and Peer Mentor team on stage to honour Mayor McCallion’s birthday as part of the ceremony marking this occasion.The selected students will receive dinner at the event, the opportunity to network with key business and public officials and receive a letter of appreciation from the Dean of the Faculty of Business, confirming their participation.
Along with close to 1,000 guests, numerous dignitaries are expected to be present at the event which will be hosted by Masters of Ceremony for the evening, radio host and columnist Ted Woloshyn, and by former leader of the Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario, John Tory.
Mississauga City Centre campus
The black tie event will take place at the Mississauga Convention Centre on Saturday February 12, 2011. The Mayor has requested proceeds from the dinner party will be used to support Sheridan College’s new Mississauga Campus, which will be the home of our Faculty of Business, set to open next September, just north of the Living Arts Centre. The 156,000 sq. ft. facility will serve 1,760 business students immediately, and 5,000 eventually.
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February 7, 2011
Sheridan Faculty of Business Human Resource program students again created their own ride for the cure as they raised more than $2000 for the Canadian Breast Cancer Foundation. Recently the Sheridan Human Resources Inter-Scholastic Committee, set up a stationary bike and accepted pledges and donations as they rode the exercise device in half-hour stints from nine to five every day for a week. In addition, HRIC members sold baked goods, sweets and candies that they baked and solicited from local merchants.
The Sheridan HRIC students invited Sheridan president Dr. Jeff Zabudsky to ride the bike for a half-hour shift and also convinced Associate Dean, Jeremy Staples to pedal the machine for a shift.
The Human Resources Inter-Scholastic Committee is composed of under-graduate Human Resources program students at the Oakville campus who undertake many fund-raising events as part of their community awareness mandate.
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February 7, 2011
More than 150 top Sheridan Faculty of Business students have been selected to attend the annual Virox Technologies Inc. Virox Future Forum hosted at Sheridan’s Trafalgar campus Friday February 11, 2011.
Randy Pilon, President and CEO, Virox Technologies Inc.
Randy Pilon, Virox Technologies Inc CEO helped create the Virox Future Forum in concert with Sheridan College and the Faculty of Business to help Sheridan business students cope with the reality of the rapidly changing workplace. The World Economic Forum believes that many new and exciting jobs will be created over the next 20 years which require new attitudes to support innovation, entrepreneurship, risk-taking, and creativity.
This year’s Virox Future Forum attendees will have the opportunity to explore the new workplace as seen through the minds of top business speakers Sean Wise and David K. Foot. In addition, attendees will have the opportunity to win one of three $1000 awards provided by Virox Technologies Inc. and 2 hours of coaching with entrepreneur, Virox President & CEO and Sheridan College business graduate Randy Pilon.
Sean Wise
Sean Wise has helped train more than 3500 entrepreneurs, specializing in emerging and high growth organizations. His latest book is How to Be a Business Superhero. Wise is also known as the Dragon’s Keeper for his on-going role as industry advisor to the CBC Television hit series Dragon’s Den.
David Foot
David Foot is an outspoken and controversial demographics expert who contends that demographics explain two thirds of everything whether the subject is business planning, marketing, human resources, career planning or social and global trends. Foot is best known for his best-selling books Boom, Bust & Echo: How to Profit from the Coming Demographic Shift, and Boom Bust & Echo: Profiting From the Demographic Shift in the 21st Century.
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February 7, 2011
Sheridan Faculty of Business Professor Lou Schizas again brings the Canadian Society of Technical Analysts to Sheridan College on Wednesday February 9, 2011 – 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm Sheridan College, Trafalgar campus – Room J320 for their monthly meeting and seminar featuring stock analysis, and industry guest speakers.
Lou Schizas will be leading a segment of Live Analysis of a Stock where the group selects a stock and provides a work-up on it as a group activity, followed by Renan Cavero, who will be giving a presentation on Candle Sticks analysis.
The Canadian Society of Technical Analysts also offers their regular features, including forecasts of the TSX Composite and S&P 500, and a review of the group’s last month forecasts and selection of the winners of the closest forecasts.
Professor Schizas promises plenty of excitement, analysis and camaraderie during the monthly meeting Canadian Society of Technical Analysts.
Attendees are asked to confirm with Jim Ivey (jivey@cogeco.ca)
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