Mark Your Calendar for the Business Fellows Showcase
Mark your calendar for Monday, April 17, from 4 to 6 p.m. for the Business Fellows Showcase. The showcase will be held in the Student Center, Cardinal Hall. The showcase will provide an opportunity for the Business Fellows teams to present their projects to the Ball State campus and the local community. Each project team will be responsible for creating a display or poster presentation to portray their project. Business Fellows students will staff their team’s display and be able to describe their project and answer questions from campus and community guests. Additional information about the showcase and creating the display will be sent to your faculty mentor.

Beat the "Brain Game" During Your Interview
How many quarters, placed one on top of the other, would it take to reach the top of the Empire State Building?
How many times do a clock’s hands overlap in a day?
How would you weigh a plane without scales?

Employers sometimes use puzzle questions and brainteasers during interviews. Microsoft is credited with starting this trend, but other industries in technology, business, banking, law, marketing, finance, and others are following Microsoft’s lead.

Sometimes the questions have no solution. What the employer really wants to know is how you think and solve problems. When you are asked such a question, concentrate not on getting the answer, but on thinking through the problem. You may not even have enough information to get the answer. Focus on how you are going to divide the problem up, on how you process the information that you are given.

Even if you don’t get the right answer, you can still impress them by how you approach the problem and the solutions that you do come up with. In dealing with actual problems you have to collaborate, brainstorm ideas, and work as a team. If you can demonstrate that you can do that, the employer will have valuable information about you as an employee, regardless of whether you come up with the right answer.

Check out the resources below to practice solving brainteasers.

Web Sites:
Brainbashers: http://www.brainbashers.com/
Brainwarp: http://www.brainwarp.com/ (Click on “Just for Fun”)
Brainteasers: http://hlavolamy.szm.sk/brainteasers/
Thinks.com: http://thinks.com/brainteasers/index.htm
Braingle: http://www.braingle.com/
Queendom.com: http://www.queendom.com/mindgames/index.html

Books:
How Would You Move Mount Fuji? by William Poundstone
How to Ace the Brainteaser Interview by John Kador

Indiana Employment Resources
Are you considering looking for full-time employment in Indiana after graduation? Using the resources we've provided here can enhance your job search.

Quotes
Find a job you like and you add five days to every week."—H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

"To find out what one is fitted to do, and to secure an opportunity to do it, is the key to happiness."—John Dewey

"I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand."—Confucius

"But it's not just learning things that's important. It's learning what to do with what you learn and learning why you learn things at all that matters."—Norton Juster, The Phantom Tollbooth

"Most successful men have not achieved their distinction by having some new talent or opportunity presented to them. They have developed the opportunity that was at hand."—Bruce Marton

"Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work, so most people don't recognize them."—Ann Landers