Top Ten List . . . Why Compete?
Top Ten List . . . Why Compete?
They’re FUN!- Competitions are street smart business learning.
- Regardless of your outcome in a competition students gain mentorship and advisers from corporate sponsors to professors to judges; all these people can be extremely helpful in your future endeavors.
- Competitions provide a premier opportunity to network for undergraduate and graduate students.
- Needed business skills such as oral and written presentation skills, people meeting skills, time management skills and organizational/group skills are built and practiced.
- Competitions help to integrate the classroom experience with the outside world.
- Competitions generate work product which you can show as an accomplishment to an interviewer for a job; participating in a competition give you an opportunity to speak about something outside the classroom which you can discuss while you’re interviewing.
- You can earn some cash!
- You enhance the reputation of Zicklin as an entrepreneurial business school and thereby enhance your own entrepreneurial credentials
- Participation in a competition looks great on a resume!
Materials produced by Zicklin students during case competitions ( under constuction)
