Business Department Opportunities

Accounting Recruitment: Accounting Recruitment is an opportunity for accounting concentrations and minors to connect with industry professionals, ask questions, and learn about internships and full-time positions at various accounting firms and businesses. It is a professional informational interview in a friendly environment. Lunch is provided and is followed by a networking and career fair for all accounting students. It typically occurs the first Friday of the school year.

Spokane Career Trek: Open to all majors. Visit top companies in Spokane and gain invaluable insight into possible future careers. Interact with alumni and recruiters, explore the differences between large companies and startups, and gain first-hand experience with fellow pirates. We visit between 3 to 5 companies located in Spokane and have a tour of their facilities as well as have a question and answer session with a small number of their employees. In the middle of the day, we invite several alums who work in the area to come to lunch and students get to network with them. Costs $25 and is offered every Fall semester.

Spokane Investment Forum: Open to all majors. The Investment Forum is a panel with some of Whitworth’s finance professors and a successful alum (or an outside portfolio manager) to ask questions about the market. Students interested in current events, the stock market, or anything related to finance and investing is invited to come by. It is hosted annually by the School of Business and typically occurs in November.  

Whitworth Tech Start Up: Open to all majors. Come learn how to solve problems with technology and navigate the basics of successfully launching a business venture. Over a single weekend, Whitworth students will pitch ideas of their own, form interdisciplinary teams, and learn from experienced business coaches as each team transforms their ideas into reality using technology. The weekend concludes with teams pitching those ideas in competition with one another for prize money. There will be free food as well throughout the weekend. It is held every November.  Register to join.

Mock Interviews (Virtual and In Person): Open to students majoring in Business Administration or working towards a minor through the School of Business. We call these “Mock Interviews” because they are the dress-rehearsal for the real deal. We ask students to participate as if they are truly interviewing for a role with the interviewer’s company (there is a possibility that they might be hiring). They are interactive, small-group interviews that provide students an opportunity to workshop their interviewing skills and their interpersonal skills as they interact both with the interviewer and fellow students. To do this, they will be asked to give interview responses, but they will also have the opportunity to give and receive feedback.  It is like “speed interviewing” with each student given 10 minutes with an interviewer before moving down the line to the next interviewer.

Seattle Career Trek: Open to all majors. Visit top companies in Seattle and gain invaluable insight into possible future careers. Interact with alumni and recruiters, explore the differences between large companies and startups, and gain first-hand experience with fellow pirates. We visit between 3 to 5 companies located in Seattle, tour of their facilities, and meet with some of their employees. In the middle of the day, we invite several alums who work in the area to come to lunch and students get to network with them. Cost is variable and is offered every Spring semester, typically over Spring Break. Registration will open by the end of November/early December.

B-Fest: Open to all majors. An end-of-the-year event hosted by the Business Club featuring live music, games, free food, giveaways, a student market, and a chance to get to know the business club. Hosted in early May.

Budgeting Simulation: Open to all majors, this event held by Balance Your Buc$ every year simulates the tough decisions one must make as an adult: what car, furniture, and house to buy, what to do what you get in debt, and how to balance your checkbook. Prizes are offered. 

Trivia Night:  This event, held by Balance Your Buc$ every semester, tests your knowledge on personal finances. Open to every major. Prizes awarded. 

Volunteer Income Tax Assistance (VITA): Accounting students volunteer to assist people with their taxes through this service-learning program. VITA sites offer free tax help to people who need assistance in preparing their own tax returns, including: people who generally make $58,000 or less; Persons with disabilities; and Limited English-speaking taxpayers. Contact Dr. Candice Correia at ccorreia@whitworth.edu to get involved.

Spokane Intercollegiate Research Conference (SIRC): SIRC is organized by Whitworth University and Gonzaga University, alternating between campuses each year. This celebration of primarily undergraduate research is open to all students in the Spokane area and costs nothing to attend. 

Fuse Career Fair: For 25 years, Whitworth University, Eastern Washington University, Gonzaga University, and Washington State University Spokane have partnered to provide employers with an opportunity to meet with over 700 students from more than 120 bachelors, masters, and doctoral programs in one location in Spokane, Washington. Students and Alumni are invited to attend the FUSE Career Fair in Spokane, Washington free of charge. More than 100 companies from around the region attend this fair to offer a diverse range of internships and full-time professional jobs.