{"id":38413,"date":"2016-04-05T11:30:12","date_gmt":"2016-04-05T15:30:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/?p=38413"},"modified":"2016-04-05T16:56:30","modified_gmt":"2016-04-05T20:56:30","slug":"goodman-student-on-competition-winning-streak","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/2016\/04\/goodman-student-on-competition-winning-streak\/","title":{"rendered":"Goodman student wins big at competitions"},"content":{"rendered":"

Goodman student Mikayla Zolis is on a winning streak.<\/p>\n

Countless practice presentations, team meetings and case analysis preparation sessions paid off for the second-year BBA student who won three case competitions in the month of March.<\/p>\n

Each competition involved business case analysis and team presentations before a judging panel of industry experts.<\/p>\n

Zolis\u2019s team, which included business students Amy Rudnicki and Alexa Pong, won the junior division of So You Think You Can Sell. The inaugural event, hosted by the Brock Marketing Association, aimed to help students\u2019 analytical and problem solving skills.<\/p>\n

The next day at the Goodman Consulting Competition, Zolis\u2019s team won again, this time including business students Mohamad Hamade and Gerda Kruckauskaite. All participating teams worked for six weeks leading up to the competition in preparation. Their quest was to help a local organization in achieving a business objective. This year\u2019s competition client was Brock Golf Course, which was recently purchased by Goodman graduate Andrew Julie<\/a> (MBA \u201905).<\/p>\n

Zolis and her team met with Julie twice and worked to come up with a feasible solution to help him grow his business before pitching the recommendation to Julie and his wife, along with Glenn Stevens from the Goodman Consulting Group and employer partners Nathan Braun from EY and Christian Guirguis from KPMG.<\/p>\n

Zolis had a break from competitions for a few days before diving back in to compete at Break the Case, an internal junior case competition organized by the Goodman Accounting Students\u2019 Association and sponsored by CPA Ontario and Goodman\u2019s CPA Research Excellence Centre. Zolis and her teammates, business students Eiraj Ali, Alyssa DiCienzo and Majid El-Assi, took home the first place prize. Professor\u00a0Samir Trabelsi, director of Goodman\u2019s CPA Ontario Research Excellence Centre, was on the judging panel and was impressed with the students\u2019 presentations once again this year.<\/p>\n

\u201cBreak the Case provides the most hands-on, realistic simulations of what it would be like to take on a specific role and pushes students to think outside the number-crunching accounting box,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere is no doubt that Break the Case requires an enormous time commitment and a lot of effort, but the potential benefits can be quite substantial. Regardless of the outcome for each and every student, when it comes to the Break the Case competition, participation is definitely worthwhile. The CPA Research Excellence Centre is very happy to sponsor such a very productive event.\u201d<\/p>\n

Zolis, who worked part-time this year as a Junior Career Associate at the Goodman Career Development Office, says the most important thing she has learned this year is that all extracurricular experience works to students\u2019 advantage in their job search.<\/p>\n

\u201cAs long as you can communicate your experience in the right way, everything you do counts,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

Internal Goodman case competition winners<\/h2>\n

Brock Finance and Investment Group\u2019s Stock Pitch Challenge<\/p>\n

\u2022 Tom\u00a0Andriopoulos<\/p>\n

Goodman Accounting Students\u2019 Association\u2019s Break the Case<\/p>\n

\u2022 First place: Eiraj Ali, Alyssa DiCienzo, Majid El-Assi, Mikayla Zolis<\/p>\n

\u2022 Second place: Naweed Chowdhury, Meagan Gloor, Katrina Karges, Jacob Murre<\/p>\n

\u2022 Third place: Danyal Ahmed, Giwakar Chandrakumar, Justin Enns, Jayath Fernando<\/p>\n

Goodman Accounting Students\u2019 Association\u2019s Goodman Consulting Competition<\/p>\n

\u2022 Mohamad Hamade, Gerda Kruckauskaite, Mikayla Zolis<\/p>\n

Brock Marketing Association\u2019s So You Think You Can Sell<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2022 Junior Division: Alexa Pong, Amy Rudnicki, Mikayla Zolis<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2022 Senior Division: MJ Kisirye, Rhea Menon and Shubham Ranjan<\/p>\n

Goodman Human Resource Management Association\u2019s HR 101<\/p>\n

\u2022 Kenneth Kooring and Jennifer Philpott<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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