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MONDAY, MARCH 26

Professional Development Dinner
6:00 - 8:00 p.m.
Brown Ballroom, Bone Student Center 

Sponsoring Platinum Partner - Nicor Gas, an AGL Resources Company


Etiquette


While interviewing or conducting business over a meal, knowing proper etiquette allows you to interact with potential employers or clients. With expert business etiquette coaching from accounting faculty member Debbie Seifert, you will learn appropriate behaviors so a potentially stressful encounter becomes an enjoyable and powerful professional opportunity.

Join us for this engaging event with industry representatives while enjoying a free three-course meal and great conversation. 

Pre Registration is Required. At the present time the Professional Development Dinner reservations are full.

Please sign up Here to be placed on a waiting list.



Professional Development


The Power of Social Media in the Hiring Process

Are future employers seeing your full potential online? Do you fully understand how corporations large and small are changing hiring practices due to social media? Join us and learn how to establish and effectively leverage your professional brand and avoid crucial mistakes in today’s business landscape.

Keynote speaker Anthony Knierim is a national thought leader in the use of Web 2.0 technologies and Social Media in the hiring process. He delivers world class HR solutions to premier clients as Global Digital Media Solutions Lead at Aon Hewitt and through his work as Chief Marketing Strategist for RadMatter.

Knierim will provide insights into utilizing social media as a professional development tool. Through his interactive session he’ll help industry guests and their student dinner companions learn the inside story on establishing and managing a professional online presence and connecting with meaning in today’s competitive business environment.   

Attendance is free and open to the public, but pre-registration is required to attend. Please sign up Here to be placed on a waiting list. Business professional attire is recommended. Student I.D.s are required for event check-in.