Wednesday, August 19, 2015

Starting the Year Off Right!

Mentoring students start the year off right, making dinner the night before classes started at Sarah's Circle.  We would like to give our thanks to Rotary, United Airlines, and O'Hare Airport who supplied us with zipper pouches filled with toiletries and socks and who also donated slippers for the women.
A great time was had by all!


Mentoring Calendar 2015-16

https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B5o2H17IHvY2M1Y4dzhVNDJfUnc

Thursday, April 30, 2015

Mentoring and Leadership Students Take Off!

On Wed, April 29, Mentoring and Leadership students had the opportunity of a behind the scenes experience at United Airlines hosted by Charles Duncan, VP of United Airlines.  Earlier in the fall, students took the ASVAB test and scores were aligned with careers at United.  Students had job shadows in different areas of United's O'Hare operations, including In-Flight, Cargo, Ramp, Customer Service, Safety, Business, Flight Operations, and Station Operations Center.  Later, mock interviews were conducted by United's HR department.  

Sunday, January 11, 2015

The Case Study Method

What is a case?
A case is a description of a management situation. Most cases range in length from two totwenty five pages of text and exhibits; the latter often present quantitative material. So-called field cases are largely based on data provided by the organization that is the focus of the case. Library cases are drawn from published material in the public domain. A case is not written to illustrate correct or incorrect handling of an administrative situation, nor is there an editorial bias that implies a particular conclusion. A chronological series of cases based on a single organization is sometimes used to expose the student to an organization’s cumulative experience with a situation.

Excerpted from
Case Studies for Harvard Business School​