{"id":20215,"date":"2013-01-03T09:42:20","date_gmt":"2013-01-03T14:42:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/?p=20215"},"modified":"2013-01-03T09:42:20","modified_gmt":"2013-01-03T14:42:20","slug":"bloomberg-assessment-test-for-students-happens-jan-26","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/2013\/01\/bloomberg-assessment-test-for-students-happens-jan-26\/","title":{"rendered":"Bloomberg Assessment Test for students happens Jan. 26"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Students thinking about a future in business or finance will have the chance to test their career skills and aptitude later this month.<\/p>\n<p>The University will host the <a title=\"Bloomberg Assessment Test\" href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/BAT2012\" target=\"_blank\">Bloomberg Assessment Test<\/a> on Saturday, Jan. 26, providing the opportunity for students in all majors to connect with firms with full-time internship opportunities.<\/p>\n<p>The Bloomberg Institute has a relationship with more than 20,000 companies worldwide that actively use test score data to fill internships.<\/p>\n<p>The goal of the test is to match student strengths with employer needs so being an expert in all 11 sections of the test, isn&#8217;t necessary. The test covers economics, analytical reasoning, math, investment management and verbal skills.<\/p>\n<p>All test scores are entered in the <a title=\"Bloomberg Institute\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberginstitute.com\/bat\/start\/about.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Bloomberg Institute&#8217;s Talent Search<\/a>, which employers use to scout prospective interns. Results remain anonymous and test takers maintain control over which employers see their scores.<\/p>\n<p>The test is free to all undergraduate and graduate students. It runs from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Bloomberg Assessment Test\" href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/BAT2012\" target=\"_blank\">Register online to participate. <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Students thinking about a future in business or finance will have the chance to test their career skills and aptitude later this month. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[54],"tags":[735,3327,734,733],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20215"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20215"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20215\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20216,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20215\/revisions\/20216"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}