[Cross-posted to Open Forum and Analytics Society; thank you for reading it twice if you subscribe to both. Please feel very free to forward to any conference attendee you know who could be interested.]
Hi all - you may have seen it last month; now you get to see it again! Looking for students and entry-level professionals especially, but as usual, we'll take just about anybody.
This fall at the Annual Meeting in Seattle we are offering the next go-round of Freestyle O.R. Supreme, our very own "Frame That Problem" game show. We will have a "client" who will present an OR/analytics-type consulting engagement problem to our competition teams. We are accepting applications to be a competition team lead (some experience required) and a team member (grad students and early career professionals encouraged to apply; no experience required). The problem this year comes to us from our friends in the transportation industry, who have a big problem. Each team will have one hour to frame that problem and present the solution. Recruiters have been invited to sit in the audience, and all conference attendees are invited to apply to participate.
This is just a tiny taste of what some actual analytics consulting firms do. Let the games begin, and may the odds be ever in your favor.
Interested? This is just an expression of interest, not a binding commitment.
Sign up here: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1RsuyJeOS0hn-ZPkpdbvCbEGd6Q6QacYJ_SvGvWeIslU/edit?usp=sharing and drop Carrie Beam an email at cmbeam@uark.edu.
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Carrie Beam
Clinical Assistant Professor
University of Arkansas
Walnut Creek CA
carrie@carriebeamconsulting.com------------------------------