By Molly Stark
molly@newsroom.byu.edu
With the quick snip of a ribbon, the Marriott School's new Business Career Center officially opened last week.
The Steven and Georgia White Business Career Center, in use since early September, is located on the fourth floor of the N. Eldon Tanner Building.
The career center was moved from the N. Eldon Tanner Building to its new 6,700 square feet location, an area roughly the size of a baseball infield.
The area where the career center now stands previously housed the business school library, said Robert Gardner, alumni relations manager for the Marriott School.
Gardner said the business school's library was moved to the Harold B. Lee Library when its new addition was completed. The move made space available for a new expanded career center, he said.
According to a press release from the Marriott School, the center has many new technological features, including teleconferencing capabilities so that recruiters can conduct follow-up interviews from their corporate offices.
The center also has video-taping equipment for students to practice their interviewing skills.
The new career center is integrated with the main career placement center for BYU located in the WSC, Gardner said.
More than 100 firms recruit at the Marriott School working from the career center, including the big five accounting firms, Gardner said.
He said investment banks, and many other major corporations interview at the center.
With 3,000 students in the Marriott School, Gardner said the center will serve both undergraduate and graduate students.
Gardner said although the center aids recruiters in finding suitable employees, it exist to give students resources in their career search. Its purpose is to help them find internships and field studies, he said.
The new center was named for the late Steven White and his widow Georgia. The Whites have been very involved with the Marriott School, Gardner said.
In honor of her late husband, Georgia White provided almost one million dollars for the renovations to the career center.
White's late husband was the former chair of the National Advisory Council for the Marriott School.