Feb21st
Under: Interview, Undergraduate
I was at a recruiting event yesterday for media and entertainment companies. I was with a few of our students to show them how to engage and work a career fair. We practiced networking and building a relationship with not only the recruiters, but all the students in the room as well.
One of our [...]
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Feb13th
Under: Interview
This morning I was sitting at the coffee bean waiting to meet up my friend when I overheard an interesting conversation at the table right next to me. A male – looked like the manager of a department store – was interviewing a young female (we’ll call them Frank and Tanya) for a retail position.
The [...]
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Jan24th
Under: Interview
“So, ummmm, I want to work for your company because I’m like, very experiences in you’re ummmm, industry. Like, I used to work for like, this company where I developed ummmm, my abilities to like quantify and like analyze financial ratios.”
I grew up in Orange County and the majority of the girls here can’t help [...]
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Jan09th
Under: Interview, Now What?
Interviewing is not like a test. School teaches us that we have to do things alone and take tests separately - if I share my knowledge or answers with someone else, they will set the curve higher and result in a lower score for me. In contrast, Interviewing is a sport, and like any sport, [...]
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Jan02nd
Under: Interview, Now What?, Undergraduate
Happy new year, readers! Most of you are back from the holiday break and back in recruiting action.
The next two months are going to be intense. Studying. Interviews. School. Mixers.
A lot of you are asking me: How do you do it?
The answer is complicated, but it comes down to one key thing:
Coming to love the [...]
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Nov30th
Under: Interview, Networking
Jun has a theory that interviewers decide if they’ll want to hire you within the first two minutes of meeting you. This means that the very possibility of getting a job offer starts the moment you meet your interviewer. I want to share with you some tips on supercharging your interview from the very start [...]
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Nov30th
Under: Interview
Is interviewing more of an art or a science?
An art is a process whose rules develop as part of the act, while science is a process whose rules are fixed from the start. I think interviewing is both. Part of interviewing is testing out responses and reacting in real-time to your interlocutor, and part of [...]
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Nov30th
Under: Interview, Networking, Undergraduate
Jun has a theory that interviewers decide if they’ll want to hire you within the first two minutes of meeting you. This means that the very possibility of getting a job offer starts the moment you meet your interviewer. I want to share with you some tips on supercharging your interview from the very start [...]
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Nov28th
Under: Interview, Networking
As a child, my father always told me, “Dress how you want, as long as it gets you the girl.” He was right.
I used to go to school wearing flip flops with socks, Hawaiian t-shirts, and a big fro on my head. Needless to say, I was the last person on any girls’ mind. Although [...]
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