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December 06, 2008
Job Search Momentum Builds
“The focused student gets the job� - These were the words of advice repeated several times to us during our RLI orientation week. This was effective in steering individuals like me into concentrating my time and efforts on one function versus attending consulting club meetings, marketing company presentations, the hi-tech industry trek to California, and a host of other opportunities available to schmooze and hopefully impress recruiters. All this in an effort to get an invitation to a private dinner or a closed list interview.
My focus on learning more about the differences between a marketing career with a CPG (consumer packaged goods) company versus a retail company versus a marketing function in a corporation has allowed me to better understand the marketing career paths I can take. I’ve also limited the amount of time I need to devote to making small talk to recruiters while trying to balance a plate of food and a drink (because I go straight from classes to recruiting events in the evening and haven’t had time to eat dinner). This has allowed me to allocate more time to pursue other activities like trying to figure out how I can help Hitchsters.com achieve a critical mass of users and to focus on school work.
Although I still believe that I received good advice, I’ll have to wait to see if I “get the job� before I can assess the outcome. And I have to confess that some part of me still wonders if maybe I shouldn’t have left the doors open for just a little bit longer…just to see what else is out there.
Posted by monicaea at December 6, 2008 10:11 PM