Virginia Tech Pamplin College of Business
March 2016 Employer eNewsletter



Tuesday, March 8, 2016
T-Shape Professional Summit in DC March 21-22



To register for this innovative, futuristic conference of leading experts in the education, govenrment and privace sectors, please go here.
Placement and Salary Data by College and Major
The post-graduation data for our 1,000-plus Pamplin graduating Class of 2015 has been released. We are pleased to announce that of those seniors seeking full-time employment, the placement rate was 90%. About 93% of graduates reported having career-related experience prior to graduation. 

Median starting salary for the college rose from $51,000 in 2014 to $56,500 in 2015. Specifically, accounting is $56,500, BIT is $62,000, Finance $56,500, HTM $44,000, Management $51,500 and Marketing is $45,000. Also, 45% of graduates reported receiving a signing bonus with the median amount of $5,000.

The most common metro location graduates began their careers was DC (52%), followed by Richmond at 10% and NYC at 6%. Overall, about 80% of graduates started their careers in the Baltimore - Charlotte corridor. 

The top employers of Pamplin graduates over the past 5 years are: Deloitte, EY, Accenture, KPMG, pwc, Capital One, CGI, Marriott, IBM, BDO, Freddie Mac, GE, Ferguson and Cvent. 

Send smease@vt.edu an email to find out your rank. 
Spring Business Horizons Results
Thanks to the over 100 companies and 400 company reps that attended the spring Business Horizons in January.  

Over 1300 students attend the Spring Business Horizons fair - up about 50 from the 2014 spring fair. This compared to 2300 students who attended the fall 2015 fair. 
 

About 82% of the students attending were Pamplin majors compared to about 75% last year. Fifty-seven of the approximate 80 majors at VT attended. Here are the top 5 by major:

Finance- FIN319
Business Information Technology - BIT301
Accounting and Info Systems - ACIS176
Marketing Management - MKTG136
Management - MGT77


Of the 1300 students attending, about 350 downloaded our mobile app. From that app, we know the most viewed companies by students:

Accenture 174, Altria 123, Appian 99, CGI 95, KPMG 92, Amazon 91, PepsiCo 84, WestRock 80, Anthem 79, Cardinal Bank 79 (First-Time Attendee).

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

The Fall 2016 fair is tentatively scheduled for Thursday, September 8th, 2016. Registration will open in late April. 
Pamplin Career Services visiting your company
A representative from our Career Services team will be in the following areas visiting with our employer partners.  If you'd like to request a visit please reach out to the contact listed.  Additionally, if you do not see your area listed and would like to request a visit, please send jcarty@vt.edu an email.  We look forward to visiting!

March 9-10 Atlanta (jcarty@vt.edu)
March 9-11 Northern VA (smease@vt.edu)
April 4-6 Richmond/Hampton Roads (smease@vt.edu)
April 15 Nashville (jcarty@vt.edu)
April 26-28 NYC (jcarty@vt.edu)
May 9-11 Charlotte (jcarty@vt.edu)
May 19-20 Northern VA (smease@vt.edu)
May 25-27 DC Metro (jcarty@vt.edu)
May 30-June 3 Raleigh (smease@vt.edu)
June 7-10 Chicago (jcarty@vt.edu)
June 6-10 Richmond (smease@vt.edu)
Pamplin Alumni Spotlight
Are you interested in featuring your company and recent hires to other students?  

Since last October, we have featured the Alumni Spotlight each week in a student e-newsletter.  Since this time, each week the article has one of the highest click through rates of any other piece.

To be part of this, have your recent Pamplin hires fill out this questionnaire and send to jcarty@vt.edu 
Connect with Virginia Tech Pamplin Students in 2016
Company Day - Schedule a time to set up a booth in the Pamplin atrium from 10am-2pm during the spring semester (please contact jcarty@vt.edu).

Speaking to classes and student groups - Here is the list of Pamplin student groups and clubs,  and a partial list of professors open to employers speaking in their meetings/classrooms for the Spring 2016 semester. To schedule, please contact directly.

Podcast Presentations - Connect with students via the web to share opportunities or career related subject matter expertise (please contact jcarty@vt.edu to schedule your space in a Podcast this spring).
In This Issue
T-Shape Summit
Post Graduation Data
Business Horizons
On site visits
Alumni Spotlight
Connect with Virginia Tech Pamplin Students in 2016
Contact Us
Contact Us
Jennifer Carty
Associate Director of Career Services and Employer Relations 
Virginia Tech Pamplin College of Business
1046 Pamplin Hall, Blacksburg, VA
540.231.6602 




Sarah Messer
Administrative Assistant for Career Advancement & Employer Relations
1046 Pamplin Hall, Blacksburg, VA
540.231.6602







Stuart Mease
Executive Director for Student Advancement and Career Services
Virginia Tech Pamplin College of Business
1046 Pamplin Hall, Blacksburg, VA
540.231.6602 
smease@vt.edu