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How do you get a job? |
| Message Name: |
Position yourself |
| Date Posted: |
10/05/2001 |
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How do you get a job at firms that have stopped formal campus recruiting this year? Do you just send your resume off? To a contact you know at the firm? |
| Message: |
You need to position yourself in such a way that, 18 - 30 months down the line, when these firms start hiring again, you will stand out from all the others who have been waiting get a job -- and especially stand out from the Classes of 2003 and 2004, who will be vying for the same entry-level as you.
Build up your background the best you can. Find interim work that you can leverage into exciting entries on your resume. Even if these are low level jobs, like temp'ing or working as an asst. manager (i.e., cashier) at Kaybee Toys, you can use these positions to show firm what you can do. By the time the consulting and other career jobs open up again you will have something that your competition (the kids graduating 2 years from now) won't have -- some real work experience that you can use to prove such things as your resourcefulness, responsibility, willingness to work late or weekend hours, maybe even some supervisory experience.
You might also consider going back to school for another year or two. By the time you finish, jobs should open again and your extra academic work may help you compete.
All these things will help you position yourself to move to the front of the line when the economy turns around again. Thihgs certainly aren't at all as bad as they were during the 1990 - 1992 recession (not by a long shot !!), so the jobs should be back, maybe even as soon as 18 months from now, certainly withing 30 months.
So THAT is how you get a job at these firms once they start hiring again.
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