November 3, 2011
Marketing student Austin Colenutt and ECE student Tory Ramsey in their Movember fund-raising mode
Sheridan Student Union students have formed Movember Crews to help raise money and and boost awareness for Prostate Cancer.
Sheridan President Jeff Zabudsky has offered his Movember Mo’ as the stimulus in the fund-raising drive challenging Sheridan students and faculty to donate to vote Yes – Keep the Mo’ or, No – Lose the Mo’.
Sheridan faculty, staff and students can donate at any Sheridan Student Union building at Trafalgar, Davis, HMC, or STC until Friday November 4 when President Zabudsky will face the final Mo’ – ment!
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October 26, 2011
Sheridan Business Process Management students take part in Diwali celebrations.
Diwali celebration lights up the Hazel McCallion Campus as Sheridan Business Process Management program students hosted a Diwali celebration recently. Diwali, also known as the festival of lights, is one of the most significant festivals in Hinduism. Faculty of Business students and faculty from several post graduate programs gathered to mix and mingle and enjoy the festivities.
“The students put on a great event,” said Scott Hadley, Business Process Management Coordinator. “The celebration not only introduced students and faculty to the Diwali Festival but also offered a memorable night for international students new to Canada to feel at home at Sheridan.”
The event was planned and executed by the Business Process Management Leadership Development class. Students worked together organizing the decor, music, and of course a delicious Indian potluck buffet.
“BPM student Khushboo Ghosh lead planning efforts with the support of her classmates. The class achieved their vision of launching a memorable event which drew students from other Faculty of Business programs, allowing students to meet peers and enhance their social networks,” said Golnaz Golnaraghi, Business Process Management program Leadership Development Professor.
There were many highlights at the event. BPM student Ankush Chodvaya presented the history and significance of Diwali. Faculty put on a commendable effort competing in a hot pepper eating contest against students. Guests participated in traditional dancing, games and mehndi applications. Mehndi is the art of applying decorative henna drawings, usually on the hand.
Diwali story by Golnaz Golnaraghi.
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October 23, 2011
Coaches Brian Kasta and Anne-liisa Longmore work with Mahfuz Chowdhury and Marc Brajak to prepare for OCMC 2011
The Sheridan Faculty of Business Advertising and Marketing students are gearing up their advertising and marketing case event skills for the 2011 Ontario Colleges’ Marketing Competition (OCMC) and have been hard at work with their faculty coaches since September.
Twenty-two Sheridan Faculty of Business students and 18 faculty coaches are preparing for the eight marketing case events, the Job Interview and the Sales Presentation and the ever-popular and fast-paced Quiz Bowl event that comprise the OCMC.
Students from more than 15 Ontario colleges compete in the annual OCMC event sponsored in part by PostMedia Network, Black Cat Advertising, the Marriott Airport and MetroNews.ca
This year’s Ontario Colleges’ Marketing Competition is hosted by Humber College.
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October 17, 2011
Bill Holmes to introduce film series with The Corporation
Sheridan Faculty of Business Dean, Bill Holmes is pleased to present a Tuesday evening film series Ethics in Business at the Hazel McCallion campus. The film series covers a number of issues in business ethics from corporate responsibility to social media begins Tuesday October 18 at 7:00 pm in room A145 at HMC and runs for eight weeks concluding on Tuesday December 6, 2011. All showing times will start at 7:00 pm.
The first film in the series is The Corporation based on the book The Corporation: The Pathological Pursuit of Profit and Power by Joel Bakan.
The film website describes The Corporation as “Provoking, witty, stylish and sweepingly informative, THE CORPORATION explores the nature and spectacular rise of the dominant institution of our time. Part film and part movement, The Corporation is transforming audiences and dazzling critics with its insightful and compelling analysis. Taking its status as a legal “person” to the logical conclusion, the film puts the corporation on the psychiatrist’s couch to ask “What kind of person is it?” The Corporation includes interviews with 40 corporate insiders and critics – including Noam Chomsky, Naomi Klein, Milton Friedman, Howard Zinn, Vandana Shiva and Michael Moore – plus true confessions, case studies and strategies for change.”
Dean, Bill Holmes will introduce the film.
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October 13, 2011
Graeme O'Neil interviews Extreme Athlete, Trevor Bodogh during Canada's Got Talent auditions in Toronto.
Extreme Athlete, and Sheridan Faculty of Business graduate Trevor Bodogh says he has a hard time saying no to a good opportunity to create exposure for his Bike Trials sport, and the recent Toronto auditions for television series Canada’s Got Talent was the right move at the right time.
Bodogh hopes that his Canada’s Got Talent audition will help give a little jet fuel to the hard work he has invested into pursuing his extreme athlete career in terms of exposure, inspiration and interest from sponsors and events. Bodogh’s focus at the audition was on creating a unique energy around what he wanted to demonstrate to the judges and he believes that he was a success.
Trevor Bodogh soars through his routine at CGT auditions
When Bodogh’s team arrived at the Rogers Centre for the CGT audition, the rain started to pour while he had a truck full of props to bring in past the endless lines filled with contestants. After meeting CGT host, Graeme O’Neil, he started bringing in the deconstructed metal pieces of his prop setup.
After about what felt like the 20th trip inside and many curious looks from the waiting contestants, Bodogh’s team set everything up and were put into line near the front. CGT host Graeme O’Neil returned shortly after seeing the giant metal ladder fully constructed and asked Bodogh for a demonstration, on camera. Amid screams of excitement and fear, Trevor Bodogh leaped his bike up and then soared off the end of the six-foot high ladder set-piece. Then with the help of the CGT team, he hauled all his props downstairs for the real audition in front of the executive show producer and his judges. Bodogh says that contestants will know by October 30th if they are selected for the next step in the Canada’s Got Talent process. Make sure to stay tuned to Canada’s Got Talent!
Trevor Bodogh is a graduate of Sheridan College, Faculty of Business, Business Administration – Finance program, and is an extreme athlete, an entrepreneur, and a sought after business speaker. Bodogh has appeared at Sheridan’s Virox Future Forum in 2011, 2010, and 2009.
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September 16, 2011
Research assistants Sarrazin and Voelk work on the Aging in Place project for SERC
Sheridan Faculty of Business students Alexi Voelk and Andrew Sarrazin, spent the summer as research assistants working with Pat Spadafora, Director, Sheridan Elder Research Centre (SERC) on a NSERC grant called Aging in Place: Optimizing Health Outcomes through Technology, Design and Social Inclusion. The proposal question: How can Sheridan and the Sheridan Elder Research Centre (SERC) best collaborate with, prepare and support small and medium-sized businesses to respond to the significant market opportunities presented by this demographic phenomenon?
“This research is important to SERC because one of our mandates is to encourage small to medium size businesses to recognize the demographic shift and to support them in learning more about working with, marketing to and designing for mature consumers,” said Spadafora.
Business and Industry Knowledge Exchange Network participants discuss issue around an aging demographic.
Students Voelk and Sarrazin were hired to work on business aspects of the grant. Voelk worked with pigeon* branding + design, conducting background research on marketing to mature consumers and designing products for mature consumers. Sarrazin’s focus was the business of aging and he assisted in the launch of the Business and Industry Knowledge Exchange Network (BIKEN). The intent of the group is to help small and medium size businesses to diversity and to grow their businesses in response to an aging demographic.
“The Aging in Place research will also provide valuable opportunities for Sheridan students in capstone project courses to create and administer their own practical research project using SERC’s current research facilities. Interested students should be encouraged to contact SERC for more information,” said Spadafora
The BIKEN team organized two breakfast meetings with the goal of bringing businesses together to recognize this demographic shift and to support them in learning more about mature consumers.
Faculty of Business Professor Kathleen Begin recently completed the Elder Planning Counselor (EPC) designation and was interested to know how Sheridan College and the business world was responding to the aging population and the ensuing challenges and opportunities.
“I think we have a responsibility to our students to prepare them for what they will experience in their careers and personal lives. We can do this by building examples and cases in our classes that reflect different demographic groups,” said Begin.
Alexi and Andrew were part of a cohort of 13 research assistants recruited from Faculty of Business, Faculty of Applied Science and Technology, Faculty of Arts, Animation, and Design and Faculty of Applied Health and Community Service. In addition, Faculty of Business Professor Cathryn Oliver, was hired to support Advertising students Voelk and Sarrazin, both of whom are continuing as part-time researchers into the fall semester.
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July 10, 2011
Tina Powell, President and CEO Big Fat Pen Publishing Inc.
Best-selling childrens’ author, and Sheridan Business Hall of Fame alumna, Tina Powell is set to launch her first foray into the adult book market with Picnic in Pisticci.
In her newly released book, Picnic in Pisticci, Powell reflects (see trailer) on her lifelong love of picnics. Beginning with her first picnic as a child, Tina recounts some of her most memorable picnics throughout her life leading up to a family picnic in Italy. Along with food, family, and friends, Powell discovers that picnics are also packed with idyllic expectations and often unexpected encounters of adventure, love, and other life lessons.
“I got the idea to write the book while planning what to do during an Italian holiday to my grandparents’ hometown. I thought, ‘We should have a picnic! A picnic in Pisticci!’ That got me thinking about how much I love picnics, how much one can learn on a picnic, and how the world truly needs more picnics,” said Powell.
Tina Powell will launch a publicity tour for Picnic in Pisticci in July starting in Oakville, Ontario, then Vancouver and finally October in Pisticci, Italy, hometown of her grandparents. Books are available through Red Tuque Books, www.redtuquebooks.ca retail price $23.95. Recognizing the needs of others, Tina Powell is donating $2 from the sale of each book to Food Banks Canada.
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April 18, 2011
Ridan, the Sheridan Tourism and Travel mascot secures the Hollywood awards
Sheridan Tourism and Travel students recently hosted Welcome to Hollywood to thank industry placement supervisors and Program Advisory Committee members for their support throughout the year. More than 125 travel industry people and Sheridan students gathered to mix, mingle and enjoy the Hollywood themed songs of The Jeremy Tozer Band, the chocolate fountain, the delicious buffet and the Sheridan-themed cupcakes at Connexions located in Sheridan’s Student Centre.
The Welcome to Hollywood Travel and Tourism student organizing group
“This stellar example of experiential learning is just one component of the Tourism and Travel program. Graduates of our Program use the real life, hands on business training provided by Sheridan College to go into many areas of the Tourism and Travel Industry, including the exciting world of Meetings and Events Planning and Incentive Travel Planning,” said Victoria Renton, Coordinator, Sheridan Tourism and Travel program.
A delicious buffet was a main attraction for everyone
The event was fully planned and implemented by members of the 4th semester Introduction to Meetings and Events class. The event assignment was focused on experiential learning for the students who were divided into teams based on their interests: Décor, Food and Beverage, Media and Program. A leader was nominated for each team and then overseen by the Assistant Coach. These leaders comprised the Management Team for the event.
“The event was better than expected and I was truly honoured to be the Assistant Coach. Everyone worked very hard and I thank them dearly,” said Christopher Wade, Assistant Coach.
Tourism and Travel students enjoy the event
“Our event turned out to be everything and more than I could have ever expected. We worked so hard for this event and I couldn’t have asked for better teammates and friends by my side. Teamwork really pays off,” said Stephanie McDougall, Decor Team Leader.
Cupcake stars for a great ending.
The 2011 Management Team was co-led by Assistant Coaches Christopher Wade (also the CFO) and Maria Astakhova. Stephanie McDougall created the décor with her team. Sabrina Bento and her team ensured that guests enjoyed a variety of cuisine options. Jazmine Davey and her team designed the invitations, name tags and media for the event. Benoit Ricard along with his team produced the program that featured an appearance of the Jeremy Tozer Band playing familiar movie theme songs.
The Jeremy Tozer Band belted out the Hollywood hits.
Welcome to Hollywood demonstrated the importance of truly working together as a team to produce a successful glamorous event. Congratulations to the Sheridan Tourism and Travel program team!
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April 7, 2011
Lou Schizas
Sheridan Faculty of Business professor Lou Schizas invites everyone to join him for the Wednesday April 13 meeting of the Canadian Society of Technical Analysts (CSTA) held at the Trafalgar campus of Sheridan College in room J320 from 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm. Speaker Tim Reazor, Director of IDB Meetup Education, will discuss Using Investor’s Business Daily to Maximize Your Profits.
Reazor’s thesis is: In an extensive study of the greatest winning stocks over the past 125 years, the biggest winners shared seven common characteristics before they make big price moves. Identifying these seven characteristics in companies today can help you find which stocks are most likely to be the next top-performers.
The CSTA says that by attending this class you’ll discover out how to quickly identify leading stocks while learning to make better buy and sell decisions. At the end of the class you’ll walk away with a watch list of stocks and an action plan for successful investing. There will be actionable skills taught, so members will leave with practical tips they can use and apply—regardless of whether or not they subscribe to IBD.
Tim Reazor is the Director of Investor’s Business Daily’s Meetup Investor Education, the program that brings IBD investors together each month to meet, learn, and profit. He also leads the IBD Speaker Outreach Program, which sends IBD speakers throughout North America, providing introductory, intermediate, and advanced investing seminars to individual and professional investors. Tim has been successful at guiding investors and teaching them how to spot emerging growth stocks that meet IBD’s CAN SLIM criteria
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April 4, 2011
60 Sheridan College Tourism and Travel students prepare to visit Toronto's Delta Chelsea Hotel with professor Omar Smith
Ensuring that Sheridan’s Tourism and Travel students get real hands-on training is one of the most important aspects of the two-year program, says Victoria Renton, coordinator of Sheridan College’s Tourism and Travel program. With that mandate in mind, 60 Sheridan Tourism and Travel students, accompanied by instructor Omar Smith, recently visited Canada’s largest hotel, The Delta Chelsea, located at 33 Gerrard St. in the centre of Toronto’s Entertainment District.
“The familiarization trip gave our Sheridan students the opportunity to see meeting and convention space, guest rooms (suites and standard rooms) and front and back of the house areas at one of the largest hotel operations in the city,” said Renton.
Delta Chelsea Room
Students were given guided tours of the rooms they will be booking for clients, an in-depth look at the convention centre space and its functions, and an inside look at hotel operations from the guest perspective at the front of house and from the hotel’s perspective through the actual back of the house operation.
“The trip is useful to the students as it gives them a baseline standardization of what a Canadian 4 star hotel offers. They can use this as a guide for all hotels in Canada when it comes service, quality, and facilities,” said Renton.
“Visiting the Delta Chelsea with my class was a great insight into the accommodation aspect of travel and tourism. Seeing the mechanics of how a larger scale hotel operates was an eye opening experience and made me realize which sector in the travel and tourism industry I would like to to get into, ” said Stephen Crawford, first year Tourism and Travel student.
Honeymoon Suite
The Delta Chelsea in an iconic property for the Delta brand in Canada and is the largest hotel in the nation. Sheridan College Tourism and Travel students were invited for an up-close and personal look at Delta Hotel’s brand awareness, Delta accommodations, their target clientele, rates, decor, products, services and ambiance.
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March 27, 2011
Three students walked away each with a $1000 scholarship and one student won a personal mentoring session courtesy of Randy Pilon, President & CEO, Virox Technologies Inc., at the recent Virox Future Forum 2011 hosted by Sheridan College Faculty of Business. Virox Scholarship winners included Faculty of Business students Stephanie Palasti, Jennifer Peddle, and Ernest Cornet. Reba Chopra won a personal mentoring session with Randy Pilon, President & CEO of Virox Technologies Inc.
Randy Pilon is the creator and sponsor of the Virox Future Forum, the President & CEO of Virox Technologies Inc., and also a Sheridan College business graduate. The Virox Future Forum is an invitation-only event funded through the generosity of Virox Technologies Inc. where future-thinking business speakers are presented in a day-long forum for top students in the Sheridan Faculty of Business.
Jennifer Peddle - Virox Scholarship winner
“The Virox Future Forum was insightful, informative and interesting. I am so glad I went as I definitely learned a lot. My plans for the scholarship are to use it toward university in the Fall. I am currently contemplating going to either Ryerson University or Nipissing University. I want to thank Randy Pilon again for his generosity and let him know that his money will be going to good use in furthering my education in the Human Resources field,” said Jennifer Peddle.
Stephanie Palasti - Virox Scholarship winner
Students praised the event, the speakers, and the opportunity to be part of the forum. “The event was so motivating and inspirational, such an honour to be surrounded by such incredibly successful people,” said Stephanie Palasti, Advertising program student, and winner of a Virox $1000 scholarship.
Ernest Cornet - Virox Scholarship winner
Ernest Cornet, a former Systems Analyst program student, is now completing his second credential in Office Administration at Sheridan College. “Luckily, I am a small business owner as well, so the topics were interesting to me. The money will be used to pay for the majority of my co-op administration fees,” said Ernest Cornet.
The Virox Future Forum 2011 connected top Faculty of Business students with top business speakers including Sean Wise of Wise Mentor Capital , David Foot of Boom Bust and Echo fame, and Trevor Bodogh, extreme athlete and performer and a graduate of the Sheridan College Business Administration – Finance program during the day-long event.
Reba Chopra - Virox Mentorship winner
“It’s not about who you are, it’s about what you do that defines you,” said Accounting program student Maria Sheikh. ”This perfectly reflects our three guest speakers – it’s not about who they are, it’s about what they have done and about how they are actively empowering others that defines them and sets them apart as role models for many of us,” said Sheikh.
“As I am constantly meeting new clients, Sean Wise’s presentation helped me to realize the importance of preparation before client meetings and gave me tips on how to convey my goals clearly in a short time. from David Foot, I learned the importance of demographic shifts and how trends like birth control can devastate a country’s birth rate and change their production output,” said Chris Carre, Marketing program graduate.
“ It’s not about who you are, it’s what you do that defines you” Similarly this quote perfectly reflects in reference to our three guest speakers “it’s not about they are it’s what they have done and actively empowering that defines them and sets them as a role model for many of us.
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March 14, 2011
Sheridan graduates with their employer, Randy Pilon, President and CEO, Virox Technologies Inc.
Randy Pilon, President & CEO of Virox Technologies Inc., is a Sheridan College business graduate – and a dedicated fan of Sheridan graduates. Over the years, Virox Technologies Inc. has provided coop placement opportunities for Sheridan students in business and technological fields giving the students real business experience and Virox a chance to pick from the top students to fill their ranks.
Pictured here with Virox President & CEO, Randy Pilon are Sheridan graduates Rancis Samonte, Accounting 2007, Jr. Financial Analyst, Mellissa Chito (Rempel), Human Resources 2007, Manager, Marketing Services, Brett Neilson, Chemical Engineering Technology – Environmental, 2010, Quality and Environmental Coordinator, and Alan Haslett, Business 1989. The recent graduates were hired right after graduation from Sheridan, while Alan Haslett, Director of Strategic Alliances, who already had a professional relationship with Virox, was lured from his banking career to work with Virox.
“It’s very exciting to be working for a company that is on the cutting edge of new technologies where I am able to use my training at Sheridan and also my interest in protecting the environment. Sheridan prepares job-seekers for all areas of the modern economy, not just business, but the applied sciences as well,” said Brett Nielsen,Quality and Environmental Coordinator, Virox Technologies Inc.
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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 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 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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January 2, 2011
The stats helper monkeys at WordPress.com mulled over how this blog did in 2010, and here’s a high level summary of its overall blog health:
The Blog-Health-o-Meter™ reads Wow.
Crunchy numbers
About 3 million people visit the Taj Mahal every year. This blog was viewed about 25,000 times in 2010. If it were the Taj Mahal, it would take about 3 days for that many people to see it.
In 2010, there were 59 new posts – that’s more than one post per week, growing the total archive of this blog to 130 posts. There were 169 pictures uploaded, taking up a total of 88mb. That’s about 3 pictures per week, about 3 for every post to the blog.
Sheridan School of Business - Gold cup winners OCMC 2010
The busiest day of the year was November 22nd with 800 views. The most popular post that day was Sheridan School of Business wins Gold at OCMC 2010.
Overall BrieflySpeakingBiz has racked up more than 44,ooo total views – 25,000 last year alone – that’s more than 2000 visits each month.
Where did they come from?
The top referring sites in 2010 were insider.sheridaninstitute.ca, facebook.com, sheridaninstitute.ca, mail.live.com, and sheridanc.on.ca.
Some visitors came searching, mostly for sheridan college mississauga, david schnarch, michael cloutier, trevor bodogh, and maurizio di maio.
Attractions in 2010
These are the posts and pages that got the most views in 2010.
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Sheridan School of Business wins Gold at OCMC 2010 November 2010
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Sheridan Business Hall of Fame Inductees October 2008
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Sheridan College School of Business programs to occupy new Mississauga campus at City Centre January 2010
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Sheridan School of Business Mississauga City Centre campus Start-Up Team to assist with transition January 2010
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About Briefly Speaking August 2008
Coming Attractions in 2011
Look for exciting stories on these events coming in the new year…
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October 3, 2010
Scott Stratten - Social Media Expert
Tweeting to his more than 63000 (and rising) followers every step of the way, Sheridan School of Business professor Scott Stratten is off on a hectic ten week 30 city tour across North America to promote his new book released by Wiley Publishing UnMarketing: Stop Marketing and Start Engaging.
And Stratten just can’t stop proving that social media attracts hordes of followers to the audience. He pre-sold hundreds of copies of his new book when he announced his tour by asking his followers to find sponsors in each city to guarantee an initial sale of 100 books and to pay his expenses. After announcing the first ten cities, his audience rallied and the tour was guaranteed – social media in action. Stratten says that he now needs to write a book about putting his book tour together through Twitter- just to reinforce his maxims about engaging the audience through social media.
To find Scott Stratten on Twitter just click his link at Unmarketing.
Stratten has been named by the global PR company Edelman as the 19th most influential twitterer by engagement.
You can find Briefly Speaking Biz and Sheridan College at Twitter – check us out – follow us often.
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