Kelvin's Business Blog

Internship Search Continued

2008-03-07T10:58:00.001-08:00

I'm still in the process of looking for a internship for this summer I received a letter from a company yesterday saying that I was not chosen as a final for the job. I also had a phone interview for another job but will not know about this one until around two weeks from now. I felt that the phone interview went well so now I get to play the waiting game again. Until then I'm going to continue to send resumes to other companies.

Data Warehousing

2008-02-29T13:11:00.000-08:00

This week in MIS 330 we talked about the concept of data warehousing which for the people that do not know exactly what this concept means is in short terms a company storing information about their customers when they make a purchase or invest from that company. After class on my walk home I began to think about all the companies that I know that use data warehousing. Some examples of this are American Eagle that has the customers rewards card and Cabela's. Recently I had gone on a website to talk to a customer service representative about my rewards account at a specific store. All I had to do is provide my name and she knew exactly what I had bought and a history of all of my previous purchases. I think that this is a great tool for a company to utilize and I see how it could really how a company as far as their marketing to which customer buys what products and services. Amazon.com also uses the concept of data warehousing to display a unique website for the account when you login. How do you guys feel about data warehousing? Like it? Dislike it? or in between?

Career week in the COB

2008-02-22T09:52:00.000-08:00

This week was career week as many of you know in the College of business. I attended the career fair on Wednesday afternoon because I'm currently looking for a summer internship. I talked to between 25-30 recruiters from different companies while I was there. Most of them took a resume and some wanted me to look up career openings on their websites. Overall I thought that my afternoon at the career fair was successful. The following day I had an interview with Walgreen's for a summer management internship. Now I'm just waiting and hoping that some of the companies will call me up to schedule an interview.