By Mel Beasley, CSB Marketing Assistant
We all know projects are usually temporary; they have set beginnings and ends. Many company projects are unique from each other and team members from different departments or organizations come together to complete the project. It takes a special sort of leader to head up company special projects because she has to lead a team of people who have never worked together before. Project managers have to be planners, initiators and excellent communicators.
Topics: professional development, project management, Swain Center
By Mel Beasley, CSB Marketing Assistant
The UNCW University Scholarship Application is now open, and we are sure some of you have deleted the email thinking it’s a waste of time to even bother. You’ve got a lot of other things to do and putting time and energy into what often seems like a pipe dream just isn’t one of them. We get it. Scholarship applications often require 500- to 1500-word essays. It’s a lot of work for something you may not even get, especially when applying to lots of them. Let’s look at some strategies to finding and applying to scholarships.
Topics: scholarships
by Mel Beasley, CSB Marketing Assistant
Are you currently in the nursing program or working as a nurse, but are thinking of ways to move to the next level of your career down the road? There’s a growing need in nursing management positions, and the promotion would likely bump up your nursing salary to anywhere from $83,000 to over $100,000. If you are a natural leader looking to advance your career in the nursing field, we highly recommend this position.
Topics: professional development, Swain Center, nursing
(Photo: MBA students meet with Wrightsville Beach Brewery for their Learning Alliance course)
Guest Blogger: Dr. Rebecca Guidice, Associate Professor of Management and Leadership and Director of the Professional MBA (This post original appeared on WilmingtonBiz.com on November 20, 2018)
UNCW’s Professional MBA (PMBA)program, offered by the Cameron School of Business, provides a valuable asset to Wilmington employers in business, government and not-for-profit sectors.
As with most successful enterprises, the key ingredient to the program’s success begins with the people who participate in the program – both faculty and students.
Topics: Cameron faculty, graduate programs, Professional MBA
Guest Blogger: Dr. Brian Kinard, Professor of Marketing, Cameron School of Business (This post originally appeared on WilmingtonBiz.com on September 4, 2018)
Blockchain, the distributed cryptographic ledger technology that has given rise to the cryptocurrency craze, is now becoming a building block in business school curriculum. Top business schools, such as Duke, MIT, and Harvard, have added a series of courses in blockchain technology to their programs over the past two years and Stanford University recently launched a Center for Blockchain Research. The emergence and rapid expansion of courses designed around blockchain development and cryptography should come as no surprise, as Upwork ranked blockchain as the fastest growing freelance skill in the United States for the second consecutive quarter. These facts may lead you to ask a few basic questions:
Topics: marketing, technology
Guest Blogger: Lanre Badmus, Cameron School of Business '19 (B.S. BA with a concentration in International Business)
As a north Jersey native, I always wanted to go to college out-of-state to experience something new. I heard about Cameron School of Business (CSB) through a recommendation and I liked what I had seen after researching—the quality of the academic programs, the high student graduation rate and the size of the university all appealed to me. I had never been to the Carolinas prior to coming to UNCW, but I decided to take the plunge by moving 500 miles away nonetheless. Of course, the fact that campus is close to the beach also helped my decision!
Topics: Cameron Executive Network, international business, student stories
Guest Blogger: Heather McWhorter, Regional Director of the Small Business & Technology Development Center (SBTDC) of the Cameron School of Business (This post was original shared on WilmingtonBiz.com on November 1, 2018)
Hurricane Florence had a profound impact on our community, citizens, and small businesses. According to the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), 40% of businesses do not re-open after a disaster, and for those that do, only 29% were still operating after two years. If your business was affected, there are both short-term and long-term steps to take.
Topics: business ownership, hurricane florence, SBTDC
By Alisha Browne, CSB Web Developer and Marketing Coordinator
After experiencing damages from Hurricane Florence, a local nonprofit organization sought a temporary location which allowed them to open their doors back up to the youth they serve.
Topics: alumni, community, hurricane florence
By Mel Beasley, CSB Marketing Assistant
Imagine. You spot the perfect internship online and apply. They call you for an interview. They promise college credit, it pays $15 per hour to start, and you get to work from your couch! What could be better than that? Absolutely nothing. Well, that is until you’ve done three weeks of work before you realize that ACME Corporation was actually the evil fictional company from Loony Tunes responsible for falling anvils and other disasters.
You’ve become the victim of an internship scam.
Topics: internships
By Mel Beasley, CSB Marketing Assistant
The symptoms are clear. Sweaty palms. Swollen tongue. Fidgety legs. You’ve been diagnosed as a horrible job interviewee. But don’t worry because Linda Raynier, online career strategist and coach, has some remedies to build your interview confidence.
Here’s how you can answer some common interview questions, and why employers ask them.
Topics: internships, professional development, interviewing
