Net Impact McGill hosts 'Leadership and Social Change' career fair

It's not just business as usual for these future MBAs. Students from the Desautels Faculty of Management, John Molson School of Business and HEC Montréal MBA programs arranged and participated in a career fair on February 2, to discover how they can capitalize on their new management training to serve their communities.

Speakers from a wide range of industries, and from as far away as Toronto, were in attendance to share with the students their insights and advice on how best these future leaders could get their careers off and running in the direction of social change. Six sessions were offered throughout the course of the morning: two in the area of social entrepreneurship and one each in the areas of international development, socially responsible investing, managing non-profits and mainstream CSR.

Following the information session a networking lunch was launched by an address from Dean Peter Todd. Marcel Desautels, as well as a majority of the speakers and representatives from additional companies, kindly attended the lunch to speak with students in an informal manner. During the breakfast, breaks and lunch, students and presenters mingled over socially responsible and organic food provided by Moozoo Juice, Skinny Edibles and Santropol Roulant.

CEI, a program that places interns with community-minded businesses and NGOs, was founded in 2001 by Kariann Aarup, a sessional instructor in the McGill BCom program, and Eric Steedman, a McGill MBA. The program has grown from providing placements for five students in 2001 to placing 17 students in 2005, in positions across Canada. For more information on CEI, please visit their website, listed below.

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