For our second to last day in Ireland, we had a guest speaker and we did our post site visit presentations. The guest speaker was a recruiter named Rob Cullen who came to talk to us about networking. He talked about the importance of networking and some techniques to use. I liked learning about this…
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Serving Your Community
FoodCloud prides themselves in helping and providing food for local charities and the less fortunate. There mission is to help underserved communities and contribute to saving the environment around them and lower the food waste problem. The entire goal of the non-profit organization is to serve the community around them. As mentioned by the speaker,…
Honorably Irish
Last day in Ireland and we got to say goodbye by visiting one of the most special companies we’ve seen so far. Foodcloud is, in their own words, a non-profit “food bank.” They also work for sustainable causes and ultimately to provide food for people and lessen food waste. I learned today that over 1/3…
Making An Impact
As the group leaves to Morrow, today was our last site visit. We went to a company called Food Cloud which is essentially A connector that connects retail companies with charities to allow for less food waste and to help people in need. They’ve made themselves part of the community by expanding their footprint and…
Working Together, Not Against
Competitive advantage. It’s something we hear about in marketing all the time; how to put yourself ahead of the competition, how to stand out, and how to maintain that edge. Today at Foodcloud, I was surprised to hear a completely different approach. As part of our final project (as well as any other large scale…
FoodCloud Site Visit!
Today we visited FoodCloud. It was great to hear about how FoodCloud operates, and it was very interesting that they had such close ties to Pittsburgh. They showcased their connection to 412 Food Rescue, which is centered in Pittsburgh. FoodCloud modeled some of their business after them, which was very fascinating to learn about. From…
Nice to meet you, I’m Gab
Networking techniques that are universal are introducing yourself, shaking hands and having eye contact. It’s also nice to always be kind to people and to do your best to remember people’s names. I do not believe that there are any networking techniques that are specific to Ireland other than getting a pint of Guinness. However,…
Tuesday, May 16th
If I had three words for the company visits this trip, they would probably be these: AI, AI, and AI! Artificial Intelligence has been a hot topic the past two weeks, and we have gotten varying perspectives from the different businesses we toured. At Microsoft, we explored the future of AI for every day applications…
Handing it forward
Foodcloud at its core is a food bank, but after our visit today, I have learned it is so much more. They use technology and networks of people to gather and redistribute surplus food. Pounds of food are wasted every day, from grocery stores to leftovers. They created an app where you can volunteer to…
The art of the business
As we will be transitioning into professionals in the workforce within the next year, it is important that we obtain networking skills. Not only will this have a positive effect on our personal careers, but it has the potential to benefit the people around us as well. To educate us on the subject, we were…
Networking with Rob Cullen
Good evening friends. Today was the day we have all be anxiously anticipating (well at least I was). Today we gave our presentations on our companies. But before we did that we had a guest speaker at Griffith College. Our speaker today was Rob Cullen and he talked to us today about networking. We have…
Culture, AI, and BlackJack
Hi everyone! Today we had two site visits, one of which was the company my group has been researching leading up to our trip. Let’s start with our first site visit of the day which was Microsoft. Last week we went to Google and I really enjoyed their Dublin office, but after visiting Microsoft today…
Networking: Worth It’s Weight in Gold
Networking. I know that as a business major, networking is one of the most crucial things to my career, but it is still kind of daunting. I am more on the introverted side, but I have no problem rolling the ball once it starts rolling, but making the ball roll is the hard part. When…
How to Network!
Today we listened to Rob Cullen. Rob spoke to us about networking. This speech included information on how to network, what networking is, and differences between online and in-person networking. It was great to hear him talk about such a difficult thing for some people. I know I am shy, which makes networking very hard…
Nearing the End of Our Abroad Journey
Today we listened to a guest speaker at Griffith college. Rob Cullen came to speak to us about the importance of networking and offered us different techniques to make networking a smoother process. There are a lot of universal techniques that are generally used in regards to networking. Some of these are a firm handshake…
My Networking Future
The end of the trip is coming way too soon, today we started out final presentations and also received an entertaining networking presentation from Rob Cullen at Griffith College today. Networking is an essential skill that all business students need in order to make the connections necessary for a successful career. Rob’s presentation made me…
Irish Je Ne Sais Quoi
The clock has started it’s countdown. A couple more days in Ireland and then I’m back home. But that doesn’t mean I’m done learning. Today we had our most entertaining lecture. Rob Cullen expertly taught us more about the process of networking in the business world. He also threw candy at us for getting the…
Micro-Gab
I think AI can be both a negative and positive. As we have heard from many of the company visits, AI can be extremely helpful to employees as it saves them time from doing mundane tasks. However, AI takes away any personal aspect of work and therefore can take away creativity. A company culture is…
Anyone know any good networking puns?
We always hear “its not what you know, but who you know,” but today we were given a deeper perspective from our speaker Rob Cullen that goes a but further into “its who knows you.” I hadn’t really thought about it this way before, but honestly makes a lot of sense. It doesn’t really matter…
Growing your Network
Regardless of where you are in the world, there are two major aspects of networking that apply all the time. First, you must be able to communicate casually and effectively. If you aren’t able to talk to someone like they are a normal person, you create a really awkward or tense environment. More likely than…