Tuesday, February 3, 2015

Results Spring Business Horizons Career Fair

Thanks to the over 100 companies and 400 company reps that attended last week's fair. Please take a moment and take this 2-question survey.

About 1400 students attend the Spring Business Horizons fair on Thursday - up about 100 from the 2014 spring fair. This compared to 2300 students who attended the fall 2014 fair.

About 75% of the students attending were Pamplin majors compared to about 80% last year. Sixty-eight of the approximate 80 majors at VT attended. Here are the top 5 by major:

Business Information Technology - BIT	268
Finance - FIN	191
Accounting and Info Systems - ACIS	167
Marketing Management - MKTG	144
Management - MGT	101

Of the 1400 students attending, about 500 downloaded our mobile app. From that app, we know the most viewed companies by students:

Accenture 160

Amazon 151

Bridgestone Americas 132 (First-Time Attendee)

CGI 126

Baker Tilly 120

Pepsi 118

Deloitte 114

JCrew 114 (First-Time Attendee)

Deloitte Consulting 112

Etrade 104 (First-Time Attendee)

Send smease@vt.edu an email to find out your rank.

The Fall 2015 fair is tentatively scheduled for Thursday, September 17, 2015. Registration will open in late April.

Salary Data and Top Employers

Each year we survey graduating seniors asking them to tell us if they have a job, with whom, how much they are making and where it is located. We compile this information into a neat 1-pager that you have seen many times. This year 66% of graduates completed the survey.

The good news is that the placement rate for those students seeking increased to 89% and the median starting salary is $51,000.

About 75% of our graduates will begin their careers between the Baltimore to Charlotte corridor. About 42% of students start in the DC metro area.

About one-third of graduates receive a median signing bonus of $5,000. About 45% of BIT grads received a bonus.

The top employers of Pamplin grads since 2010 are: Deloitte, Accenture, EY, KPMG, PWC, Capital One, IBM, Marriott, Freddie Mac, Cvent, Virginia Tech, Hilton Worldwide, GE and Vanguard.

To read more, click here.

Faculty/Classes Wanting Firms as Guest Speakers

Each semester we create a list of Pamplin faculty who want firms to speak in their classes. Here is the list. Feel free to contact directly.

Also, here is the list of student groups in Pamplin too.

In This Issue

Results of Business Horizons

Salary Data and Top Employers

Guest Speakers Needed