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Are you there God? It’s Me, a Flailing First Year Recruit

Posted on February 19, 2013 by Jayson Hanky

On Monday, January 7, 2013, at approximately 4pm, I return home, sit down, and crack open a Coors Light, smiling at the blue “Super Cold” bar near the bottom of the can. The first day of Mod 3 classes is done, and I have to admit, it feels really good to be back at work, though today it somehow feels different. Not long after my first sip of cold Rocky Mountain magic, my roommate enters with a new, but soon-to-be common request: “Hey bro, you have a minute to take a look at this cover letter? My application for this internship is due tomorrow.”

“Sure man…email it to me and I’ll send you some feedback.”

“Thanks. You’re so lucky you don’t have to worry about this shit anymore.”

Somehow, I’m a trusted source of cover letter advice these days.

Now why, when recruiting season is just beginning to amp up, am I drinking Monday afternoon beers instead of sweating over internships? Let’s Tarantino this thing and go all the way back to the beginning to find out…

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Posted in Graduate Life, Guest & Alumni Bloggers, Job Search, OwenBloggers | Tagged hop, human organizational performance, internship, Recruiting | 1 Comment

What’s in a Grade?

Posted on December 21, 2008 by Bradford Cayer

So now
that Mod 2 is done… it’s time for grades. Who cares… this is grad school,
right? I thought that grades weren’t supposed to matter. (somewhere in New
Hampshire my parents are crying) Yet every time grades are issued, the same questions
pop up, the same issues are raised, and the same complaints are aired.

I have
had professors comment on the fixation that our class (2010) has on our grades.
Not so much that we “Grade Grub”, but that we generally worry about our scores
too much, as though we were undergrads. Some have asked “Why do we care?” … “Most
of the companies do not use it as a measure of employability.”

This question has been posed by most
of my professors… and of course when this conversation starts, someone always
chimes in “If grades don’t matter, then I’ll take an SP, thank you.” (I try to
be first, just in case they say yes… SP is the Owen version of a 4.0 / A ) It IS
true that most disciplines don’t ask to see a GPA. (Finance is the exception.)

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Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged dores, duke, finance, grade grub, grades, harvard, healthcare, hop, mba, owen, owenbloggers, vadnerbilt, vanderbilt | 1 Comment

Process Flow Diagram

Posted on November 9, 2008 by Bradford Cayer

So I am sitting downstairs in the quicksand chairs that Owen has strewn about
the first floor. (see pic)
Actually,
they are organized neatly, but since I don’t like these chairs much, I thought
I would talk some trash. I have a break. It seldom happens that I get a break…
students here are always busy. I would love to get one of those stop motion
cams to snap a photo of the second floor every 30 seconds. Start at 8am, end at
2am. Watch the students shuffle in, shuffle out, sit down, stand up, fall
asleep, and generally work their butts off.

Break time, means looking at my task list. It is ever changing. I have my class
work timed to flag on the list when its coming due, then there are replies,
thank you letters, blog posts, even calls to family, so I don’t let it go by
for too long. The list is always moving… in one task, out another. This reminds
me of the current class I am in… Operations!
(said with an energetic Dutch accent, if you are lucky enough to have Lepre)
It’s Exciting!