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Business Cafe Series and Advising

Are you planning on transferring to a university? Considering starting a business? Trying to pick a major? Are you looking for an internship? Deciding on which classes to take next?

Join us for the Business Café Series!

GRCC Business Faculty want to help you! We are offering periodic advising, informational and skills-based presentations and workshops for interested students this fall. Please join us to participate in our Business Café Series! Throughout the semester, at different days and times, a GRCC Business faculty member will be available to discuss various topics related to academic advising, transferring, careers in business, skill building, and more. In addition to the Business Cafe Series, we provide advising sessions for currently enrolled and students thinking about joining one of our programs. Our faculty are also available to answer questions during regularly scheduled office hours. Call the Business Office at (616) 234-4220 for more information.

How to register

To participate in any of these events, click on the appropriate registration link(s) and provide the requested information. We ask that you register for the event(s) at least 24 hours in advance. You will need to be logged into your GRCC email account to be able to register.

Business Cafe Series

Intro to Nonprofit Management

Join GRCC's Professor Ann Alexander for this virtual session to discuss how you can apply business skills learned at GRCC to effectively manage organizations providing health and human services. Learn about a new seminar in nonprofit management and discuss the possibility of developing a certificate program in nonprofit management here at GRCC.

Register for Intro to Nonprofit Management

Careers in Marketing and Management

If you love people and want to change the world, then marketing and management careers are right for you!
Marketing and Management professionals are in big demand in today’s competitive job market. Learn more about the exciting world of marketing and management and its high paying careers.

If you are interested in living a life filled with adventure, travel, challenge, and excitement then a career in marketing and management is right for you. Marketing professionals take an initial idea within an organization and bring it to market. We are curious, analytical, creative, and innovative problem solvers. We help people live happier lives by providing solutions to their daily problems. Our solutions are the products and services that you see every single day being offered in the marketplace. Management professionals organize, plan, lead, control, and direct the most valuable resources within an organization: people and capital, so as to meet their organization’s objectives.

This virtual session will provide individualized coaching to help you make the right decision on which careers in marketing and management best fit your life goals today and tomorrow. If you love working with people and want to help make this world a better place then marketing and management careers are right for you!

Register for Careers in Marketing and Management

Building a Better Resume

Join GRCC’s Professor Ann Alexander for this virtual session to learn the essentials of writing a professional and attention-getting résumé. You will also have the opportunity to review examples of effective and ineffective résumés.
Bring in your own résumé for real-time feedback!

Register for Building a Better Resume

Entrepreneurship and Starting Your Own Business

Turn your dreams into a reality!

There has never been a better time to start your own business and be your own boss! This session will focus on taking your idea and turning it into a successful business. Receive personalized coaching on your business idea.
The best employers rank an entrepreneurial mindset as one of the top things they are looking for in candidates looking to join their organizations. This session will also discuss the important role entrepreneurship plays in economic development, job creation, and prosperity for a nation.

Whether you start a business or go to work for someone else, this session will get you one step closer to making your dreams a reality!

Live the life you truly deserve. Be rewarded for your ideas and hard work. If you truly want to become wealthy and successful, then come to this powerful virtual session.

Register for Entrepreneurship and Starting Your Own Business

Running Your Own Business: Keys to Small Business Success 

There has never been a better time to own your own business and be your own boss!  Running your own business should be the best decision you have ever made in your life!   Learn what it takes to keep your dream alive and not let it turn into a nightmare.
Join GRCC’s Professor of Business and Business Department Head, Felix Pereiro, and participate in this virtual session which will focus on what it takes to run your business successfully and avoid the common mistakes made by small business owners. Receive personalized coaching on your small business.

Live the life you truly deserve. Be rewarded for owning your own small business. If you truly want to become wealthy and successful then come to this powerful virtual session.

Register for Running Your Own Business: Keys to Small Business Success

Honors at GRCC: Honors Program and PTK 

In this virtual session, Director of Experiential Learning, Mike Schavey and Professor Ann Alexander will discuss the Honors Program at GRCC.  This one-of-a-kind program offers a rich blend of leadership development, community engagement, and scholarly exploration, setting the foundation for a promising future for business students.

As part of the program, you'll immerse yourself in activities centered around leadership, service, research, and creative scholarship, all while enjoying the support of a close-knit community of fellow students and faculty. Beyond the classroom, you'll have the chance to collaborate on projects showcasing your passions and possibly present your work at various conferences.
Don't miss out on this chance to carve a unique pathway at GRCC, enriched with support, collaboration, and opportunities to shine both academically and personally. Join us to learn more!

Register for GRCC’s Honor Program presentation

Careers in Law

  • Virtual Session
  • Oct. 23
  • 9–10 a.m.
  • Professor Garry Brand & Tracey Brame, Associate Dean, WMU-Cooley Law School

In this virtual session, Professor Garry Brand will be exploring multiple paths from GRCC to an undergraduate degree and law school. In addition to the virtual presentation, Tracey Brame, Associate Dean at WMU Cooley Law School will be available to answer your questions.

Register for Careers in Law

Careers in Accounting (featuring Dolinka, VanNoord & Company)

In this virtual session, Assistant Professor Jennifer Knauf and representatives from the public accounting firm, Dolinka, VanNoord & Company, will be available to talk to students about accounting careers, CPA requirements, what skills to work on now to best prepare yourself for the job, and more!

Whether you are first considering a career in accounting or have already decided to pursue a major in accounting, come to this session!

Register for Careers in Accounting (featuring Dolinka, VanNoord & Company)

Turning Your Ideas Into Money: MWest Challenge

In this virtual session, Professors Felix Pereiro and Jeff Spoelman will discuss the MWest Challenge competition, a student venture competition designed to create cross collaboration between students that span across several universities from West Michigan. Through this experience, entrepreneurially minded students are able to develop and grow new ventures based on their own ideas.

Register for Turning Your Ideas into Money: MWest Challenge

I’m Not Sure About Math - What Class Do I Need to Take to Transfer to a Business School?

During this in-person session, Professor Brent Spitler will be discussing the current degree requirements at our partner business colleges and universities.  Transfer, articulation agreements, and degree requirements can be confusing and hardly anyone wants to attack their math and statistics courses.  However, understanding the quantitative requirements is an important part of any successful student transfer.

Register for I’m Not Sure About Math

Careers in Accounting (featuring Plante Moran)

Join Assistant Professor Jennifer Knauf and representatives from the public accounting firm, Plante Moran!

In this session, we will take a tour, hear from those who work in audit, tax, financial advising, valuations, and forensics, and enjoy lunch from Jimmy John’s. There will also be some fun swag to go home with.

If you are interested in attending this event, you must complete the registration form. Please note that you need to be logged into GRCC Google account on your browser when attempting to access the Google Form.

The address is 634 Front Ave. NW Suite 300, Grand Rapids, MI 49504. Parking is free. Enter at the north end through the gate that is open. Park on the 1st or 2nd level and take the elevator to the 3rd floor.  Please see the "office arrival guide" on Blackboard for more details on where to park.

If you have any interest at all in the accounting field, you should consider attending this event.

Register for Careers in Accounting (featuring Plante Moran)

Personal Finance: How to Budget, Manage Debt, and Plan for Retirement

During this on-campus session, we will discuss some of the biggest financial mistakes people make and how to avoid making them.  We will also cover many other practical topics including credit scores, credit monitoring, budgeting, and how to avoid financial traps.

Register for Personal Finance

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