Kent State College of Business Administration Students Participate in Annual Pro-Am Competition

KENT, Ohio - May 19, 2015 - PRLog -- Fourteen College of Business Administration students and Pi Sigma Epsilon (PSE) members traveled to Houston, Texas to participate in the 59^th Annual Pro-Am Competition and Professional Sales Conference on April 17^th and 18^th.

Incoming PSE President, Randy Roland, a freshman Marketing and Entrepreneurship major, received the Future Leaders Award and 2014 Kent State College of Business Administration Ph.D. graduate Rebecca Dingus won the Best Sales Teaching Innovation-Method Award.

Annually, the University Sales Center Alliance sponsors the Best Sales Teaching Innovation-Method Award. To enter the competition, sales educators submit a paper outlining their teaching innovation for a special session at the National Conference in Sales Management (NCSM). Each paper accepted competes for the $1,000 award, this year 12 papers were presented.

“I was honored to receive the Best Sales Teaching Innovation-Method Award” said Dingus, a Ph.D. graduate in Marketing and Entrepreneurship.

While at the conference the students attended sessions on managing careers, personal branding, transitioning from college to career and personal finance, as well as PSE meetings regarding chapter leadership and recruitment.

The conference also featured a Career Fair with 25 companies seeking interns and employees in professional sales including 3M, Citrix, Sherwin Williams, Mach1 Global, AT&T and Vector Marketing. More than 400 students from 50 universities attended.

“After attending the conference, students return to Kent State with a better grasp of a future career in professional sales. Students learn the importance of personal branding, receive interviewing tips and walked away with valuable contacts through networking events. Most importantly, many have internship opportunities as well,” said Ellen Daniels, PSE advisor. “The conference provided the chance to experience the corporate world through professional speakers, roundtable discussions and workshops; ultimately allowing students to emerge focused on a career in professional sales.”

Pi Sigma Epsilon is a professional fraternity specializing in the advancement of sale, marketing and management professions. They are a nonprofit, coed organization with over fifty chapters and approximately 50,000 members nationwide. At the collegiate level, members are provided with opportunities to apply classroom lessons to everyday activities and gain real life experience to a fast-paced business world. With exposure to a professional environment, members are able to further understand business relationships found in corporate-driven society.

For more information about the Kent chapter of Pi Sigma Epsilon Sales & Marketing Fraternity, visit http://www.kent.edu/csi/pi-sigma-epsilon

For more information about the College of Business Administration’s Marketing and Entrepreneurship Department, visit http://business.kent.edu[LM1]

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Kent State University’s College of Business Administration is one of only 180 colleges or schools of business worldwide to achieve dual accreditation in both business and accounting from the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB) International, the global accrediting body providing specialized accreditation at the bachelor’s, master’s and doctoral levels. The College of Business Administration is home to 4,502 students; the second largest college of business in Ohio. The college boasts a satellite office at Kent State University’s Career Services Center dedicated to business students, and operates the Global Management Center, the Center for Information Systems and the Center for Entrepreneurship and Business Innovation all propelling scholarly research, establishing innovative industry partnerships and providing outreach to Northeast Ohio and beyond.

Media Contacts:

Michelle Parrish Manning, Director of Marketing Communications, mparris3@kent.edu, 330-672-2717

Bri Figley, Marketing and Communications Specialist, bfigley2@kent.edu, 330-672-1279

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