A Career Week Wrap Up in Numbers

By: Caitlin Charles

It has been over a week since Career Week has ended, but I would like to send out one last review to talk about some of the results I have been gathering since last Friday.  I believe numbers can be a very telling resource, so I would like to go over some of Career Week's statistics.
Career Week preparations began last April, but our current team of 9 spent 44 days this semester working on coordinating all of career week's events.  We had 14 sponsors and and gave out 25 prizes worth over $1,600.  The winner of our Elevator Pitch Contest William Thiedeman, won a business suit and shopping experience from JCPenney by only 1 vote over 2nd place, with 701 votes total.  In terms of marketing and spreading the word about Career Week, we produced 3 video spoof commercials, and printed 6 different types of fliers, 1 of which we stuffed into 3,000 copies of the exponent at 12:45am the Thursday before Career Week.
Not including The Professional Forum Career Fair on Friday we had a total of 310 student attendees to 13 events in 4 days with an average 24 per event.  Of the 13 events, 8 were speaker presentations, with 2 of them being our key note speakers, Yvonne Harvey Williams and Kyle Lacy.  4 were interactive events and 2 were fair style.  The most attended type of event would be a fair style event in the early afternoon on Monday or Wednesday in PMU 118.
Now to round out the Career Week experience from an intern's standpoint, I would like to add some of the stats from my own personal week.  I worked 31 hours on Career Week during the 5 days, drank 13 cans of Coca Cola, and changed clothes in the first floor Beering bathroom 3 different times.  I had pizza for 7 separate meals, and ended up with 31 pictures from various events.
I hope these numbers have given a small idea of how Liberal Arts Career Development worked to put Career Week together, and some of the successes we attained throughout the week.