Well, the original FIMBA cohort made it through the first semester. We managed to take over the Devos C study area with our diagrams regarding the production process and conversations focused on reorder points and safety stock. We finished up our Basics of Integrated Business Processes on Monday and turned our full attention to the interviews with the corporate partners.
But I’ve skipped ahead. The week before that we had the networking reception—aka: speed networking. This is a lot like speed dating complete with a bell when the time is up, but minus the dating part and add in 12 mini interviews. Regardless of how much we made fun of the “speed dating” night—I think we all really enjoyed it and it definitely made us a lot more comfortable in the interviews of the past week as well as gave us a better idea of what companies we would like to be a part of.
After the networking reception, we turned in our lists of our top six companies and the companies turned in their top six candidates (seriously, the comparisons to speed dating cannot be ignored). Grand Valley then matched us up with five or six interviews each.
We interviewed with some of Grand Rapids’ elite companies last week. That experience alone was amazing—let alone having the privilege to be the fellow for one for 11 months. The companies included: Almond Products, American Seating, Amway, Consumers Energy, Fifth Third Bank, Mercantile Bank, Mill Steel, Priority Health, Steelcase and X-rite. Six interviews in three days sounds like a lot. But most of us were shocked by the amount of free time we had. It was a welcome break. However, this weekend the topic that is at the forefront of every FIMBA members’ thoughts will be the debriefing that we have on Monday morning, when (hopefully) we find out where we will be for the next 11 months!
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