Students seeking direct routes to their dream careers received expert navigation tips from experienced professionals at this October's Career Paths panel series, the signature fall event of the Lundquist College Career Services office. Each of the three evenings highlighted a specific range of career concentrations and featured panels of young professionals--often UO alums--drawn from Career Services' extensive network. The first day's panelists were up-and-coming executives from Nike, Adidas, Daimler, and Yahoo, who discussed their experiences breaking into the fields of marketing and sports business. On day two, representatives from Levi Straus & Co., New York Life, Moss-Adams, and Umpqua Bank fielded questions from finance and accounting students. Information systems and operation management, entrepreneurship, and business management were the final day's topics, when UO alumni from CPUsage, Ferguson, Ecova, PricewaterhouseCoopers, and Oracle took center stage. "All of the panelists were so down-to-earth and engaging, you could really tell that they wanted to help students get a better idea of what is waiting for us after college," said business major Andrea Brown '14, whose postgraduation goal is to land a job in sports marketing. Though Career Paths is the Career Services office's signature event for the term, it's just one of many opportunities our students had to network with representatives from high-profile companies this term. Download the Career Paths program.

Participating Companies:

Adidas
Apercen Partners
Cambia
Columbia Distributing
CPUsage
Daimler Trucks North America
Deloitte
Ecova
Ernst & Young
Ferguson
Frank, Rimerman, & Co.
Geffen Mesher
Google
Grant Thornton
Intel
Isler CPA
Jones & Roth
Kernutt Stokes
KPMG
Levi Strauss & Co.
Moss Adams
New York Life
Nike
Novogradac & Co.
Oracle
Perkins & Co. P.C.
PwC
Sherwin-Williams
State of Alaska Audits Division
Tektronix
Umpqua Bank
US Bank
Waddell & Reed
Wieden + Kennedy
Verizon Wireless
Yahoo!
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