Executive Mentor Program

Executive Mentor Program

The Executive Mentor Program from Loyola University represents a very enriching experience
for freshmen students who are in the College of Business. The main objectives of this Program are: make students getting to know different types of jobs available for business student, by a direct mentor-student interaction cover any doubt regarding business maters, provide networking relations inside the New Orleans business community that can be helpful in the future for internships and after graduating jobs.
The experience that I value the most is the one of have the opportunity of minting all this successful people in side the New Orleans business community. All the mentors are very generous people that dedicate their very valuable time to us. In the many mentor meetings that we had we had the chance of get to know them very well. I am sure that these are people that I will never forget in my live. Specially my mentor Kelly Lambert. She is the Director of Internal Communications for Ochsner Health System. She is responsible for the communication of system-wide messages to over 10,000 employees within Ochsner's seven hospitals and 35 clinics throughout Southeast Louisiana. She got her MBA from Loyola. She is a very interesting person and the fact that she is the youngest mentor made our meetings interesting because she just had passed through what he are going through right now. She really understand us.
When I first heard about I didn’t know what to expect about it. I was a little skeptical about it and I was really confused because I didn’t know how this people were going to help us and in what way. After the first mentor meeting everything started to change. This mentors seamed like good friendly persons and afterwards I found they really were like they seamed to be. This program filled all my expectations during all the semester.
This “Executive Mentor Program” is a great way of improving education because gives a different viewpoint to students of what they could potentially do in the future. I definitely see this program as a plus about Loyola’s College of Business. Next semester I hope to experience a program as good as the Executive Mentor Program and continued learning new things in a joyfully way. As a business student I recommend people to stay connected and inform about business current events. Here are some good websites readers can take a look at.

• http://www.thebigmoney.com/
  
• http://www.businessweek.com/
  
• http://money.cnn.com/
  
• BBC NEWS Business

Wolves on the Prowl Community Service

Saturday the 8th, 2008 the students of the College of Business participate in a community service program called “Wolves on the Prowl Community Service”. This program was organized by the Loyola Alumni Association who host the Seventh Annual National Community Service Day. Students had many community projects to chose from. The names of the different projects were "Cubs in the Den", "Service Starts in Our Own Community", Wilson Charter School, LUCAP's project SMILE. All the projects offered by the Alumni Association where in the area of the of New Orleans. I chose the project on the Wilson Charter School. When we got there were a lot of chores to do like painting a class, helping in the copy room, cutting tennis balls for the chairs and more. The chore that I was assigned to do was cutting tennis balls. The propose of this modified tennis balls is that they reduce the noise made by chairs when they are moved during class time by students. At first I thought that my chore was going to be really easy, but then, when I tried to cut the first tennis ball I noticed that it was very hard even to make a hole in it because they are made of very strong rubber. I worked in this task with two persons that work in the school, a student from Loyola Law School, and two of my friends Eugenio and Javier. We had to cut two huge bags filled with tennis balls. At first it seemed impossible to cut all that balls in just a couple of hours that we had to do the chore, but at the end we did it finally. We had a good time helping in a little way to this school. During our chore we chat about a lot of things with this persons that we just had meet hours ago. New Orleans is a city that needs a lot of help, even more after hurricane Katrina that destroy mayor par of the city and cause a lot of damage to New Orleans residence. Doing community service is a enriching experience that people should do it more often. There is a lot of organizations that promote community service in New Orleans like Build Now NOLA that help people from New Orleans re build their homes after what happened with Katrina. Basically the mission of this organization is to provide an alternative renovation or modular homes by designing and constructing site-built, elevated houses that reflect the style and quality of traditional New Orleans architecture. This organization has helped a lot of people that lose their homes during hurricane Katrina.