Infobytes & Training

Registration

For InfoBytes and Business Plan Workshops: Email reference@babson.edu indicating the session(s) you'd like to attend. Please put the name of the session you'd like to register for in the subject. Space in these sessions is limited and registration is required.

For Career Search InfoByte Sessions: RSVP on Babson Career Connections through the Portal

For general computer training, such as for Word, Excel, and Outlook email, check with Human Resources.

Spring 2008 Sessions

• Career Search InfoByte Series
• Business Plan Workshop Series
• Know Your Industry
• Consumer Markets
• Going Global or Staying Local
• Simmons/Scarborough for Consumer Behavior
• Business Plan Research in a Nutshell (Open Clinic)

Carreer Search InfoByte Series
Horn Library & UG CCD team up to present the Spring Career Search Infobyte Series. Bring your laptop and join us as we walk you through some of the online services available in the Horn Library & through CCD that will support you during your career search. The overview will focus on a specific industry and touch on researching the industry, companies, and opportunities as they relate to career development

Business Plan Workshop Series

Know Your Industry!
Find the 3Ms – Market demand, Market structure, and Margins. Take a look at key industry and market resources that give you trends, market size, segmentation, key success factors, operating ratios and other info on your industry. Identify key associations and trade journals for in-depth information.

Consumer Markets
What can you find out about your consumers? How many are there? Are the numbers growing? Where do they live? What are their characteristics? Take a look at key sources for market research, consumer demographics, and consumer behavior.

Going Global or Staying Local
This workshop focuses on both global and local markets.

1. Going Global: Are you locating your business overseas? Take a look at the key sources for doing business in.... Find out where you can get data on country consumer and business markets.
2. Staying Local: Find out how to estimate the your market size in a specific US area, or determine the characteristics of consumers in your town or zip code area, or characteristics of consumers in a metropolitan area.

Simmons/Scarborough for Consumer Behavior
Do you need to know about a specific demographic group? Learn how to create customized reports on a target market such as people who buy designer jeans or women who purchase wine in the Boston area.

Business Plan Research in a Nutshell (Open Clinic)
Stop in and ask questions related to your business research.

Last Updated On
March 31, 2008