What a Young Professional Can Learn from Our Sponsors

By Megan Fingert           

Career Week, beginning on Monday, will offer countless opportunities for you to network and begin building your professional brand. Though, our amazing events and guest speakers aren’t the only places you can learn. In fact, you can learn a lot from the beautiful speaker gifts we will present to our guest speakers donated Follett’s Bookstores and University Bookstore and even from our grand prize iPad donated by Boiler Cribs.

We have been so incredibly honored by the support we have been given by local business owners right here in Lafayette. Their generosity is an example you should always follow throughout your professional life. Whether it’s sponsoring a Little League team or provide food for a local event, philanthropic efforts can help you in more than one way. Of course, everyone enjoys the extra advertising, but more importantly it builds a reputation that is more lasting than any well-placed logo. As one of your peers, I think it’s important that you know which companies and businesses in our community were so excited at the prospect of helping you to develop a professional network and brand. So, when you attend an event this week, I urge you to pay special attention to the page within our event programs that contains the list of our sponsors.

These companies have left such a positive impression not only on the LACD team, but also on countless faculty, staff, and students at Purdue. Their charitable actions make the choice to visit their businesses an easy one and a frequent one.

I hope that you’ll take the time to show your support for these generous supporters just as they have shown support for your future career. I also hope that, in that future career, you will make the same choice to give back to your patrons and the greater community. It will bring you business karma that is invaluable.