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Category Archives: Job Search
Tale of Two Internship Searches: Early Offer
If you had asked me a year ago what I would be doing for my summer internship, I wouldn’t have been able to predict it even in the slightest. Even today, I still couldn’t imagine what this summer had in store for me. But it all started with the search…
To trace back to where this story began, I’d have to start somewhere in August where I sat at my desk inserting the final touches on my resume. I had some idea of what I came to Owen to achieve – a change of pace from my prior years of experience in economic and financial consulting. My eyes were set on a career path within corporate finance; as such, I would expect my summer internship could be codified in such a manner.
Days turned into weeks which soon turned into months of research on companies, mock interviews, cover letter tweaking, discussions with classmates, career advisors, and alumni to hone in on opportunities for summer internships. As more information fell in my lap, the laundry list of potential places I’d like to work whittled itself down to a handful of companies. The internship pursuit continued full steam with a trip to NSHMBA in Minneapolis and an Owen Career Management Center sponsored event known as Wall Street Week during the fall. Looking back, these events did much to prepare me for the focused job search and interviewing I would encounter in the winter.
Tale of Two Internship Searches: Last Minute Offer
I came to Owen as a career-switcher, hoping to somehow transition my experience at a consulting startup in the insurance industry to a brand management position in the CPG industry. I assure you it didn’t seem as unnatural of a transition then as it does writing it now. My internship search, I was told, would have to begin as soon as I stepped on campus.
The initial attention I got from CPG recruiters was encouraging, but I found myself repeatedly losing out in the end to better prepared and more qualified candidates. After landing three successive interviews during one week in January, and even flying out to San Francisco on my own dime for one, and not getting invited for any 2nd rounds, I reluctantly broadened my search. I had started an excel sheet back in August, tracking the date and position associated with each application I submitted, which had gradually grown to over 45 companies, and I soon had memberships to almost as many companies’ career websites. What began as a focused search at just the top 5 CPG companies that only recruit at HBS, had become an exercise in market sizing with the added benefit of receiving daily email updates for all the positions I didn’t qualify for.
Blog your advert
Want to make sure that your job post will reach the right audience? Nothing easier! All you have to do is put it on industry blog so specific, that only those interested are reading it and voila! – you just got your post to go directly to those potentially interested straight into their RSS reader. Brilliant!
The only problem is that not many bloggers are likely to let others use them in as a posting board. What might work once, is unlikely to work again. If I keep on seeing post like this
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In Praise of Idleness
Yesterday a friend told me where to find live internet broadcast of Polish Public Radio, so ever since I’ve been listening to Trójka. This morning (well, my morning, but in Poland mid afternoon) I listened to a long discussion about not wanting to do things. Some callers were funny, others not so much, but the most interesting thing was mention of an essay by Bertrand Russell: In Praise of Idleness. For someone still looking for a job, it’s a very refreshing thought. Maybe more so, for someone who sees work is a means to a happy life, and not the goal of it.
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Pounding heart
As I was plowing through my RSS feed aggregator yesterday, I came across an article on BBC how managers work 40 days more a year then other employees. So I actually looked at the article instead of just checking out the first paragraph, and to my horror, 40 days a year equals to working an hour longer a day! This is outrage, isn’t it!? The article then goes on and talks about the negative impact on health and performance that such overworking has. My heart was pounding with excitement that some has raised that issue.
And then I realized that I would be glad to work for a company which required me to work at most 48 hour weeks. As I am job searching and going through the notions of finding the right fit company for me, it frightens me how many “great” employers don’t really care about the well being of their workers. How corporate culture reward those that are willing to sacrifice their private lives for the company and work 70 hour weeks. How the society pushes us to live to work and not work to live, and, which I think is worse, that majority of people don’t have a problem with that.
We are so involved in winning the rat race that we forget that there is life out there. We forget that there are other ways of doing things and that the world will not end if we slow down a bit.
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