UNBC Business Students Take Top Honours

By Michelle Cyr-Whiting

’You’re Hired!’ 

If Donald Trump was at UNBC today, he would be uttering those words to Stephen English.

The recent Bachelor of Commerce grad was spokesperson this afternoon for a group of approximately 40 students who just returned from Western Canada’s largest business competition with two first place finishes in Accounting and Marketing and thirds in International Business and Overall Participation.

English says when he first approached JDC West about competing in the event, it was suggested UNBC students might want to "observe" for their first year.  English says he took that as a challenge and never looked back.

He says there were so many components to preparing for the competition: from working on business plans, to securing corporate sponsorship and working with a local charity (the students raised $5-thousand dollars for Breast Cancer Research).

"It helps our students in regards to bridging the gap between academics and the working world and helping to facilitate that transition between their academic career and university degree, and moving off into the work force, " says English.

UNBC President Don Cozzetto congratulated the students on their remarkable achievement and couldn’t resist a little dig, noting that on their first year in the competition they beat both UBC and SFU.

The School of Business is the university’s largest program.

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