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UNB Faculty of Management

Co-op Can Be A Pretty Sweet Deal

Ideas with Impact

Posted: December 16, 2014 4:00:00 AM AST

Category: Students


UNB's business co-op program has helped hundreds of students get excellent job experience and be exposed to many employers over the years. Some students however have made such an impression on their employers that they have earned jobs post graduation. One of these lucky students, Matthew Rogers, landed a position with one of Canada's sweetest companies: Ganong Brothers. Hearing about all the...

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Co-op in the Wild West

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Posted: December 11, 2014 4:00:00 AM AST

Category: Students


When third year BBA student Kelly Sheehan first accepted a co-op placement with Syncrude Canada Limited in Fort McMurray, Alberta, she was both excited and a little anxious. Working in the accounting department of such a huge company would be a great way to gain valuable experience, but the idea of moving across the country was a bit daunting – but only in the beginning. The experience...

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Desert Storm comes to UNB

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Posted: December 11, 2014 4:00:00 AM AST

Category: Alumni


In August, 1990 Dr. Ng Pock Too was named CEO of Sembawang Engineering Group, a large Singapore Government owned offshore engineering company. He remembers his first day on the job well: it was the same day that Saddam Hussein invaded Kuwait and seized their oil fields in the Persian Gulf which would disrupt the world supply lines for oil. Sembawang had 23 Singapore engineers working on an oil...

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Social Media Legend speaks to MBA Class

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Posted: December 11, 2014 4:00:00 AM AST

Category: Programs


Dave Carroll never expected to change the nature of customer service, public relations and brand management when he sought compensation for a guitar destroyed by a careless airline baggage handler. But when Carroll fulfilled a promise to United to post a music video on his ordeal to YouTube, that’s exactly what happened. Carroll’s modern digital David and Goliath tale over a...

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