We're on Skype!

The final week of the semester brought on a new milestone for the Business Placement Center! Finals week has a tendency to be rather... crazy! You can imagine my response when AirServ, a company who visited campus recruiting for United Airlines, asked me if it would be possible for students to visit them for interviews in Chicago of that week. While some students were able to make it, some weren't. Thankfully, AirServ was willing to conduct interviews via video conference!

We used Skype, the free calling service that eBay owns. It is AWESOME if you need to call overseas or videoconference on the cheap! Using a USB condenser mic and webcam, we were able to turn my office into a sort of 'videobooth' for the students who weren't able to make it to Chicago that week!

Here is a photo of one of those students, Nicki Raufer (Marketing '10), taken just after her interview:
Although I think that everybody agreed that face-to-face interactions are the best, we're excited to use technology to close that geographical gap that southern Illinois (sometimes!) seems to have!