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Professional Development
Professional Development takes it one step further and looks to the future to drive growth for both the company and the employee. Effective professional development programs impact: Employee job satisfaction Employee retention Employee knowledge and advancement The employee growth opportunities you pursue are customizable based on your company's unique needs.
https://wmich.edu/professional/about
Benjamin Ndinga Etshim, B.B.A.’18
Haworth College of Business
Faced with the daunting prospect of starting his college career over, he pushed to overcome the logistical challenges and achieve his goals. His journey took effort, which included working several jobs while attending school to pay for his tuition. At Western, Etshim majored in integrated supply management and completed internships at Eaton Corporation, Depatie Fluid Power and Marathon Petroleum.
https://wmich.edu/business/etshim2023
Pursuing Airport and Operational Opportunities: Ricardo Escalante-Villalta is Catapulting from AZO to an Aviation Career
College of Aviation
Escalante-Villalta and his sister with their best pal! Born in the capital city of San Salvador, Ricardo moved with his family to the Pacific Northwest in the winter of 2008 when his father took a job with Microsoft Corp., the multinational computer and software enterprise headquartered in Redmond, Wash. Request College of Aviation Information That's where the Escalante-Villalta clan took up residence.
https://wmich.edu/aviation/blog/2023/03/escalante-villa
Taylor Graham, B.B.A.’19
Haworth College of Business
As CEO and founder of Socially Taylored, she wanted to build a life for herself where she could travel and work from anywhere in the world, so she quit her full-time job at an agency in the middle of the COVID-19 pandemic to do exactly that. Graham is in control of her narrative. A self-described digital storyteller, her clients trust her to share social media content and paid advertising strategies that captivate audiences.
https://wmich.edu/business/graham2023
About Global Engagement
Global Engagement
One report on multinational employers found that they "look for graduates with a wide range of life skills that include awareness of other cultures and mastery of more than one language. They have migrated from being local recruiters for local jobs to being global recruiters for global jobs and careers and now seek employees that are able to work throughout the world, as required," ( citation ). Foreign language study A trite bit of conventional wisdom is that the international language of business is English.
https://wmich.edu/global/infosheet
Adventures in sustainability: Students expand their horizons in India
Haworth College of Business
“The main purpose of this trip was to instill in students the idea that the sole purpose of business is not only to make a profit,” says Palmer. “While firms must make a profit, they also provide jobs, lift communities out of poverty, increase literacy, improve public health and seek sustainable solutions.” During the two-week trip, students were able to make site visits to several Fortune 500 corporations and talk with their sustainability teams to see how they are making progress toward both corporate and countrywide initiatives.
https://wmich.edu/news/2023/03/70967
Why I Give: Linda Lesniak
W Magazine
Talk to your professors for both advice and so they get to know you and your goals. After all, we’re the ones who write your reference letters for grad school and jobs.” ■
https://wmich.edu/news/2023/02/70893
The Lovable Latvian, Janis Strupis is making waves in the WMU Aviation Technical Operations Program
College of Aviation
While his high school offered no paths to aviation, Janis forged his own, voraciously reading news about the industry and playing video games, such as Microsoft Flight Simulator. The simulator is where "my love for aviation was turbo-charged," he recalls. "Before that, I didn't even think about a job in aviation. Something clicked." He went to movies with aviation themes and plots, and attended air shows. A research project focused on how plane noise impacts airport workers.
https://wmich.edu/aviation/blog/2023/03/strupis
Publications
Educational Leadership, Research and Technology
The fundamental characteristics of international models and mechanisms for evaluating government-funded research. Access: Critical Perspectives on Communication, Cultural & Policy Studies, 27(1 & 2), 9-25. Coryn, C. L. S. (2009). Job analysis. In L. E. Sullivan (Ed.), The Sage glossary of the social and behavioral sciences (p. 276). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage. Coryn, C. L. S. (2009).
https://wmich.edu/leadership/academics/evaluation/publications
Helping future investigators solve decades-old cold case
University Libraries
Many of these records are unavailable digitally, so searching through newspaper archives is the best way to discover they exist. These details can help create a clearer picture of the timeline and movements of potential suspects. "The reporter's job is more important than they realize," says Dennis. "What they wrote up in their report of that crime occurring is exactly what we're taking a look at 35 years later."
https://wmich.edu/library/updates/2023/02/impact-report-helping-future-investigators