Wednesday, February 23, 2011

BMA Event

Last night I attended the BMA event at the Manpower facility in Milwaukee, WI.  I started off with the resume review and found that very helpful.  However, the first woman I met with told me how she prefers the resume the way that I had it just fix a few things while the second woman I met with likes a totally different layout than what I had and actually liked to see the GPA on it.  I wasn't really sure what to think since they were both polar opposite. 

After resume review I went to the interviews.  I loved this step of the event.  I was able to have five interviews.  All of the people I talked to were great (minus one) and gave me very helpful advice.  I was told if I was looking for a career right now the woman would hire me for her company because she admired how outgoing I was.  Then there was the crabby old man that I met with (Katy was lucky enough to meet with him too).  This interviewer asked questions that were not relevant to the event and was very rude. 

 The social media part was helpful also and I enjoyed the stories they had to tell.  The pizza was awesome! Overall, I had a great time and was glad I went but sadly was too tired to do my homework for other classes that night. Ooops.

Some very helpful links:
http://www.bma-milwaukee.org/
(also a reminder about the scholarship on this website!!)

http://www.facebook.com/home.php#!/bma.milwaukee

And finally, us Warhawks had such a great turn out!  A student from Carthage told me he was surprised that about half of the students there were from UW-W!

2 comments:

  1. I agree. I thought it was great to get different perspectives on how to generate a good resume. I also thought the interviewing process was helpful. It was great advice from real professionals.

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  2. haha I had some totally different views on my resume and a crabby woman as well.

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