http://blogs.owen.vanderbilt.edu/tamifassinger Chief Recruiting Officer Mon, 29 Apr 2013 17:21:00 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4 http://blogs.owen.vanderbilt.edu/tamifassinger/new-dean-eric-johnson-brings-excitement-to-owen/ http://blogs.owen.vanderbilt.edu/tamifassinger/new-dean-eric-johnson-brings-excitement-to-owen/#comments Fri, 26 Apr 2013 20:12:20 +0000 Tami Fassinger http://blogs.owen.vanderbilt.edu/tamifassinger/?p=323 Most transitions of top leadership lead to angst — especially when your current leader (and, in this case, my boss) achieved so much. However, the opposite has been true throughout the Owen community since the university announced that Eric Johnson will take the reigns as dean from Jim Bradford starting July 1. I have known Eric for more than 20 years, starting when we were both in our early careers at Owen, he as an operations professor, while I was [...]]]> http://blogs.owen.vanderbilt.edu/tamifassinger/new-dean-eric-johnson-brings-excitement-to-owen/feed/ 0 http://blogs.owen.vanderbilt.edu/tamifassinger/dont-wait-work-to-change-your-status-on-the-mba-waitlist/ http://blogs.owen.vanderbilt.edu/tamifassinger/dont-wait-work-to-change-your-status-on-the-mba-waitlist/#comments Mon, 01 Apr 2013 14:19:57 +0000 Tami Fassinger http://blogs.owen.vanderbilt.edu/tamifassinger/?p=314 http://blogs.owen.vanderbilt.edu/tamifassinger/dont-wait-work-to-change-your-status-on-the-mba-waitlist/feed/ 0 http://blogs.owen.vanderbilt.edu/tamifassinger/tim-murray-global-economy-middle-east-stronger-than-media-portrayal/ http://blogs.owen.vanderbilt.edu/tamifassinger/tim-murray-global-economy-middle-east-stronger-than-media-portrayal/#comments Fri, 15 Mar 2013 17:43:48 +0000 Tami Fassinger http://blogs.owen.vanderbilt.edu/tamifassinger/?p=299 Vanderbilt alumnus Tim Murray (EMBA ’03), Chief Executive Officer of Aluminum Bahrain B.S.C (Alba), brought members of his executive team to meet with Owen students, faculty and administrators as part of a recent US tour. Murray had served in various executive roles at Alba since 2007 before becoming the CEO in October 2012. Prior to Alba, he worked as Vice President and CFO of Knoxville-based ARC Automotive, a global manufacturer of Air Bag Systems. During his visit, Murray shared a [...]]]> http://blogs.owen.vanderbilt.edu/tamifassinger/tim-murray-global-economy-middle-east-stronger-than-media-portrayal/feed/ 0 http://blogs.owen.vanderbilt.edu/tamifassinger/vanderbilt-mba-ranks-in-top-30-of-u-s-news-world-report/ http://blogs.owen.vanderbilt.edu/tamifassinger/vanderbilt-mba-ranks-in-top-30-of-u-s-news-world-report/#comments Wed, 13 Mar 2013 01:09:03 +0000 Tami Fassinger http://blogs.owen.vanderbilt.edu/tamifassinger/?p=288 Vanderbilt once again made it into the top-30 MBA programs as ranked this year by U.S. News and World Report. While that marks a slight decrease from last year, it simply reflects the volatile, horse-race nature of rankings. (If you want to read more about the limitations of rankings, check out Malcolm Gladwell, the New York Times, or the B-School website Poets & Quants.) Here are a few highlights from this year’s ranking: • Owen’s overall index score was the [...]]]> http://blogs.owen.vanderbilt.edu/tamifassinger/vanderbilt-mba-ranks-in-top-30-of-u-s-news-world-report/feed/ 0 http://blogs.owen.vanderbilt.edu/tamifassinger/summer-business-programs-give-undergrads-a-career-edge/ http://blogs.owen.vanderbilt.edu/tamifassinger/summer-business-programs-give-undergrads-a-career-edge/#comments Thu, 07 Mar 2013 16:34:25 +0000 Tami Fassinger http://blogs.owen.vanderbilt.edu/tamifassinger/?p=282 For college undergraduates — and recent grads — looking for a crash course in business skills to help land a job, summer bridge programs offer enormous benefits, as the Wall Street Journal reports in a story today. Designed for students whose colleges don’t have an undergraduate business program, summer business institutes like Vanderbilt’s Accelerator help round out a traditional liberal-arts education for employers seeking candidates with relevant business skills. At Vanderbilt, for example, students receive 100 hours of classroom instruction [...]]]> http://blogs.owen.vanderbilt.edu/tamifassinger/summer-business-programs-give-undergrads-a-career-edge/feed/ 0 http://blogs.owen.vanderbilt.edu/tamifassinger/7-ways-women-can-make-the-most-of-their-careers/ http://blogs.owen.vanderbilt.edu/tamifassinger/7-ways-women-can-make-the-most-of-their-careers/#comments Tue, 12 Feb 2013 15:35:11 +0000 Tami Fassinger http://blogs.owen.vanderbilt.edu/tamifassinger/?p=274 http://blogs.owen.vanderbilt.edu/tamifassinger/7-ways-women-can-make-the-most-of-their-careers/feed/ 3 http://blogs.owen.vanderbilt.edu/tamifassinger/nashville-more-than-just-another-it-city/ http://blogs.owen.vanderbilt.edu/tamifassinger/nashville-more-than-just-another-it-city/#comments Mon, 11 Feb 2013 17:44:21 +0000 Tami Fassinger http://blogs.owen.vanderbilt.edu/tamifassinger/?p=265 Between the Black Keys, Jack White, Taylor Swift, Carrie Underwood and others at the Grammys last night, it’s clear that Nashville has arrived. The New York Times said as much last month in an article about Nashville’s current stint in the national spotlight. We’re the new “it” city, the writer suggests. I can’t agree more. Nashville has long enjoyed an interesting blend of top intellectual talent, great musicians and artists, and a cool ambiance where all these groups converge. When [...]]]> http://blogs.owen.vanderbilt.edu/tamifassinger/nashville-more-than-just-another-it-city/feed/ 0 http://blogs.owen.vanderbilt.edu/tamifassinger/vanderbilts-msf-program-offers-career-boost/ http://blogs.owen.vanderbilt.edu/tamifassinger/vanderbilts-msf-program-offers-career-boost/#comments Thu, 24 Jan 2013 23:10:00 +0000 Tami Fassinger http://blogs.owen.vanderbilt.edu/tamifassinger/?p=247 There’s been a lot of talk recently about graduate management programs beyond the MBA, like Vanderbilt’s one-year Master of Finance. With the economy starting to stabilize — and the job market slowly easing — many recent college graduates find that this is a great time to enroll in programs that can help give them a career edge. So I was happy to run across a GMAT Club forum that listed Vanderbilt’s MSF among the top programs as determined by the [...]]]> http://blogs.owen.vanderbilt.edu/tamifassinger/vanderbilts-msf-program-offers-career-boost/feed/ 0 http://blogs.owen.vanderbilt.edu/tamifassinger/4-traits-that-make-you-stand-out-in-a-job-search/ http://blogs.owen.vanderbilt.edu/tamifassinger/4-traits-that-make-you-stand-out-in-a-job-search/#comments Fri, 18 Jan 2013 20:30:51 +0000 Tami Fassinger http://blogs.owen.vanderbilt.edu/tamifassinger/?p=230 How can you differentiate yourself during a job search? Owen alumni Paul Frankenberg (MBA ’03) and Ethan Dunham (MBA ’09), co-authors of the book Burn Your Resume, will offer some tips at a Vanderbilt Young Professional Programs event on Jan. 22, 5:30-7:30 p.m. in Management Hall on Vanderbilt’s campus. For more information or to RSVP, go to owen.vanderbilt.edu/ypevents. In the meantime, here’s an overview of the advice taken from Burn Your Resume. As the leader of your own future, it [...]]]> http://blogs.owen.vanderbilt.edu/tamifassinger/4-traits-that-make-you-stand-out-in-a-job-search/feed/ 0 http://blogs.owen.vanderbilt.edu/tamifassinger/executive-mbas-postcards-from-china/ http://blogs.owen.vanderbilt.edu/tamifassinger/executive-mbas-postcards-from-china/#comments Fri, 18 Jan 2013 16:00:13 +0000 Tami Fassinger http://blogs.owen.vanderbilt.edu/tamifassinger/?p=202 http://blogs.owen.vanderbilt.edu/tamifassinger/executive-mbas-postcards-from-china/feed/ 0