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Mustafa Malik, B.B.A.'03
Haworth College of Business
Flexibility is the most important thing that Malik has learned on the job. He enjoys the flexibility that his business degree has given him to move between different areas and enhance his skills in the process. His advice to students is to be flexible when looking for that first job, “Be open to opportunities upon graduation even if they offer something different than what you planned on doing after graduation.
https://wmich.edu/business/malik-mustafa
Loss Survivors
Suicide Prevention Program
Though there are elements of commonality in grief, each person and each situation is unique. Delay making major decisions if possible. Selling a home, car, cashing in on policies, moving, quitting a job, etc. are all things that should be avoided if possible. The path of grief is one of twists and turns and you may often feel you are getting nowhere.
https://wmich.edu/suicideprevention/loss-survivors
TRCLC Partnership Survey
Transportation Research Center for Livable Communities
The Center’s primary goal is to improve affordable and environmentally sustainable transportation options for conventionally underserved communities with special attention paid to non-motorized travel, pedestrian and bicycle safety, job accessibility and 'smart' transport technologies. An important part of the TRCLC mission is to provide meaningful opportunities for public agencies, industry, academics and interest groups to inform and collaborate with the Center to achieve this goal.
https://wmich.edu/transportationcenter/survey
WMU inventors win $10,000 Brian Patrick Thomas Award
Haworth College of Business
"We've received so much help along our way from individuals in southwest Michigan—both from WMU and from the community. As a business, we hope to give back, hopefully by creating jobs here while saving neonatal lives around the world." About NeoVent John and Barnett teamed up to create NeoVent after John learned from a Respiratory Therapists Without Borders official about the need for a low-cost medical device that could deliver biphasic positive airway pressure ventilation to prevent lung collapse in premature babies experiencing respiratory distress in
https://wmich.edu/news/2015/07/25223
Hettinger, Miller to lead WMU Board of Trustees for 2015
WMU News
He first joined Battle Creek Unlimited in 1978 as marketing director, and one year later was named president and CEO. He is credited with attracting nearly 100 companies and 9,400 jobs to Battle Creek's Fort Custer Industrial Park during his tenure. For his work in economic development, Hettinger received letters of commendation from two U.S. presidents—Bill Clinton and George W.
https://wmich.edu/news/2015/01/21287
Michael Eden, MBA'06
Haworth College of Business
The Road Less Traveled After graduation, the job market in Michigan was not what Michael Eden, MBA'06 had hoped. In order to maximize his future options, he “took the road less traveled” and moved to China. This was not unexpected, however, as he had previously visited China on a fourteen-day “Business in China” immersion course with accountancy professor Dr.
https://wmich.edu/business/eden-michael
Jeremy Cencer, B.B.A.'11
Haworth College of Business
Recent Grad Lands His "Dream Job" Jeremy Cencer, B.B.A.'11, entered the business Career Day his last semester of college with a plan. He made his way through the aisles of employers to Compuware, a technology performance company that ensures maximum performance of technologies for businesses worldwide, and began a conversation with a recruiter about the future of technology and business practices.
https://wmich.edu/business/cencer-jeremy
Some 175 employers to participate in Career Fair 2013
WMU News
Thursday, Feb. 14 , on campus in the Bernhard Center Ballroom. Organized by WMU's Career and Student Employment Services, the event is expected to attract some 175 employers and 3,000 job seekers. Although open to the public, it is tailored to WMU students and alumni. The participating organizations represent such diverse areas as engineering, technology, health care, government, the nonprofit sector, insurance, transportation, construction, retail and consumer products, and environmental sciences.
https://wmich.edu/news/2013/01/4387
Nepalese government official to address 'kafala' system in WMU talk
WMU News
Pushkar Kafala is practiced in such countries as Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, the United Arab Emirates and Lebanon. Migrant workers are the main victims and are excluded from national labor laws, which allows employers to use them for "4D jobs"—dry, dirty, dangerous and difficult—without basic human and economic protections. Pushkar's talk, presented by the WMU Institute of Government and Politics and the Department of Political Science, will emphasize Qatar's use of kafala workers to build its infrastructure for the 2022 World Cup.
https://wmich.edu/news/2014/10/19686
Leaves and Absences from Work: Military Leave
Human Resources
When an employee with a service-related disability is not qualified to perform the essential functions of their job after the University has made reasonable efforts to accommodate the disability, the employee may be placed in another position of comparable pay, rank, and seniority. Employees who are not qualified for their job for reasons other than a service-related disability may be placed in a lesser position in terms of status and pay for which they are qualified.
https://wmich.edu/hr/manual-leaves-military