McCoy Seminar Takes New Direction To Meet Job Searching in Today's Economy

Kelvin Meadows, a manager with Target Stores, congratulates
Richard Albritton, graduating senior, as the recipient of the Target Scholarship.

This year the Dr. Howard McCoy Sr. Seminar took a new direction in helping students prepare for job searching. The School of Business partnered with the University Career Center to present a panel of experts drawn from area businesses. The panel discussion on job search strategies for the current economy, focused on various methods of finding employment within the government, non-profit and private sectors. A Q&A session gave the students an opportunity to ask questions of the panelists. For the second year Target Stores who provided a $1000 scholarship sponsored the event.

Six panelists discussed a variety of job searching strategies and networked with
students at the Dr. Howard McCoy Sr. Seminar.

Panelists included Buffy Harwood, First Clearing Corporation; Keller Elliott, a self-employed SAP Data Warehouse Architect; Jamell Dumas, Joseph E. Seagram and Sons Distilled Spirits Division; Katie Land, Federal Bureau of Investigation; Kelvin Meadows Target Stores and Vivian Shields, Virginia Department of the Treasury. Cheryl Melton, Director of the Career Center served as moderator.

This event serves to honor Dr. Howard McCoy Sr. a member of the School of Business' Marketing & Business Law faculty who unexpectedly passed away in 1999. McCoy had started a program in 1995 to help students in finding jobs after graduation.