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Do you want to create positive social impact while gaining invaluable experience?

Register now for the second annual Social Entrepreneurship Challenge (SEC) sponsored by the Humanitarian International Services Group (HISG), Beedie School of Business and Times Telecom. This year SEC 2012 will be taking place on June 16^th (Orientation), July 7^th (Mid-way Meeting) and July 21^st (Preliminary and Final Rounds).

What is SEC?

SEC is a five week long competition open to all undergraduate students. Students will join the competition as teams of threes and be provided with an initial seed fund of $100 to create a product or service of their choice. While creating a social impact on a local and global scale, teams will raise funds by selling their product or service, which ultimately HISG will donate towards sponsoring Social Entrepreneurs in Africa.

For more information and to apply, click here. Registration deadline is June 13^th, 2012.

If you have any questions or concerns, please contact Racquel Reyes at rreyes@sfu.ca.

“Take a SEC… change the world.”

The Beedie School of Business will be hosting a meet and greet session called Making Connections on Tuesday, June 5th, 2012, from 6-8pm at the SFU Surrey campus. This event is designed to give newly admitted high school students an opportunity to meet 1st, 2nd, 3rd, and 4th year students who can share with them their experiences. To make this event a success, we would like to have our best students attend and mingle with the new students to let them know all that SFU has to offer and to help ease any potential anxieties that they may have about coming to the University.

Event details are as follows:

5:45 – 6:15pm Registration on Mezzanine (staff)
6:00 – 6:15pm Greet new students on the Mezzanine as they arrive (student volunteers)
6:15 – 6:20pm Welcome from Andrew Gemino in SUR 2600
6:20 – 6:50pm Selected Business students to each give a 5 min presentation
6:50 – 7:00pm First year course planning (Jennifer)
7:00 – 8:00pm Meet and greet on the Mezzanine and PIZZA! (student volunteers)
7:45pm Draw Prize (staff)

We are looking for a few more volunteers for this event. Your time commitment would be from about 6:45pm until 8:00pm on Tuesday, June 5th at the Surrey campus.

For further information about this volunteer opportunity, please contact Alieka Rudder at aliekar@sfu.ca

As a member of the Business Mentorship Program, your term runs from selection to April 30, 2013.  In your positions, you’ll play a crucial role in the transitioning of 1^st year students into the Beedie School of Business. Through the position you will interact with FROSH, BusOne, top students at the Beedie School of Business (Mentors) and 1^st year students (Mentees). Being part of this program is a unique experience; you’ll be able to directly apply the knowledge you gain from classes and build your network at the same time. Becoming a member of the BMP Organizing Committee will open doors for you – Apply now!

Organizing Committee Positions:

• Director of Mentorship
• Director of Events
• Director of Marketing
• Director of Administration

Application Process:

To apply for the Director position, please fill out this Business Mentorship Program OC Application Form, along with your resume, and email it to Brock Balfour at beb7@sfu.ca and Karizza Concepcion at ksc13@sfu.ca by Friday, June 8^th @ 11:59pm.

Interviews will occur sometime between June 23^rd and June 28^th. Please note that only qualified applicants will be contacted for an interview.

Please save your documents as following:

• For Application Form: First and Last Name_Position.doc
• For Resume: First and Last Name_Resume.pdf

Program Overview:

• Estimated Number of Mentors: 110
• Estimated Number of Mentees: 220
• Estimated Operational Budget: $20,000
• Estimated Number of Events: 8
• Program Length: September 2012 – April 2013

The Business Mentorship Program (BMP) will capture the majority of 1^st year students in both FROSH and BusOne. Whereas FROSH provides a great orientation to the Beedie School of Busines, BMP will aid in students transition into Beedie. BMP will complement BusOne and focus on two components: mentorship and events. Mentorship is important to have 1^st year students look up to a more senior student that has done well both in and out of the classroom. Events give a forum to ensure everyone has their Beedie friends. http://www.sfubiz.ca/bmp/2011/

BASS is now looking for applicants who are interested in becoming part of BASS as a Director of Recruitment. As a part of the BASS under Director of Recruitment your term will run until the end of May 2013. Your role is to search, screen, interview potential candidates, and extend job offers on BASS’ behalf. This role includes representing BASS and its best interests by encouraging students to be involved, manage the flow of candidates throughout the recruitment process, scheduling interviews, and bringing candidates on board. Main duties include: supporting the VP HR in the implementation of recruitment, assisting in the creation of a recruitment plan, receiving job applications and creating short lists, editing job descriptions, arranging interview appointments and utilizing the online recruitment tools to attract potential candidates. This position directly reports to the VP of Human Resources, Karizza Concepcion.

Why apply?

This position enables one to strengthen your interpersonal skills, organizational skills, problem solving skills and communication skills.  It is an ideal position for a candidate interested in Human Resources. This is also a great way to expand your personal difference in the Beedie School of Business.

Application Process:

1. To apply, please fill out the Director of Recruitment Application
2. Email your resume and application form to Karizza, BASS VP Human Resources, at ksc13@sfu.ca
   • Please save your documents as following:
     • First and Last Name_Position(s).doc or pdf
     • First and Last Name_Resume.doc or pdf
3. Application Deadline: Friday, June 8, 2012 at 11:59PM

Interviews dates and times will be set up once all of the applications have been reviewed. Interviews are tentatively set to be held the week of June 11, 2012.

For further information about this position, please read the Director of Recruitment Job Decription.

For further information about this position, please read the Director of Administration Job Description

For further information about this position, please read the Director of Marketing Job Description.

We are looking for 3 SFU students to run the SFU Surrey Summer Camp this year.

We are also looking for volunteers to work with the Instructors and students, see the Summer Camp Instructor and Summer Camp Volunteer job descriptions. If you know of any secondary school students that might be interested please feel free to forward the attached job description to them.

For more camp information including registration for camps please click here.

Are you thinking of pursuing a financial services career upon graduation or internship during university? Then make sure you subscribe for the ‘Finance Recruit’ email list!

This email list will be used throughout the year to provide you with details on events and information related to the financial services industry including:

-       Fall and summer banking recruiting event details

-       Finance Recruit Prep workshop information

-       Industry Panel event notifications

-       Off-campus industry-related events

-       Important finance job posting notifications

To receive these important email updates and be notified of all Finance Recruit events, interview and preparation resources, and finance job postings you must be on the Finance Recruit email list.

To subscribe to the Finance Recruit email list:

1.       Visit Beedie Community

2.       Log in using your unique SFU Computing ID and Password

3.       From ‘myAccount’, select the sub-tab ‘Communications’

4.       Ensure ‘Finance Preparation/Finance Recruit is selected under ‘CMC Special Career Program’

5.       Select ‘Update’

If you have any questions, please contact CMC’s Program Assistant, Preet Brar at 778.782.5544 or bbacareers@sfu.ca or in WMC 2330.

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