So I know that the chances of this working are slim to none, but I'm trying nonetheless. I'm a 19 year old rising Sophomore in search of work. I'm trying to get something related to my field of interest or anything at all in the business world, but don't have the right connects which is my biggest downfall. If anyone has any idea of any place that is hiring interns or any entry level openings at an accounting, marketing, or finance firm that would be great. TIA
You've just completed your first year, so if you did not arrange for summer employment around March or April it is not likely you will be taken on at this point for a job in your discipline. People are hiring again, at least.
If you want experience look at nonprofit. Great way to actually do something in a field you have an interest in. They'll probably only give you minimum wage since you are young.
Take a job at the bottom. The mail room (because we know what a bustling area that is in 2010). Keep your eyes and ears open and your mouth shut. Make sure to take special care of the executive staff. Find an empty office and pretend you're an exec. Just watch out for your a-hole yuppie uncle and his voraciously horny wife. She's a man-eater. Spoiler <object width="640" height="385"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/cot5rEGcDek&hl=en_US&fs=1&"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/cot5rEGcDek&hl=en_US&fs=1&" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="640" height="385"></embed></object>
If you're a marketing grad, what kinds of jobs are you looking at? I've got a cousin who's a marketing grad who doesn't know what to do.
Do not be discouraged by people telling you that it's too late to get a summer job. Although you've missed the deadlines for the bulge brackets/big four - and maybe even the boutique firms, go for the smaller ones anyway (this is for IB which is what I did). Ask for anything. Experience is what counts. The empty fields on your resume needs to be filled up. Does your business school/college have some sort of career center or a place where alumni can be contacted on your behalf for netoworking?
Yeah but what do you do, specifically? I took one marketing class for my Business Minor and I never really found anything pliable. Of course, it was an introductory course.
Ya, you are too young to have anything valuable to offer in your field so go nonprofit. I don't work nonprofit, I did a high-level internship at one in the past though and recognized it as a great place for someone young to actually get their hands on something. They are also small, you work closely with people so you can actually learn and create references. I doubt they pay you, but you get to do something you feel good about (I got paid and I don't feel good about helping people because I have no heart) which helps. Anyways, you can help grow presence in the community, manage accounts (grant funders), develop business through writing (if you are good at it), social media, design (brochures, web), or coordinating events/volunteers. You also get the wide-range of basic business skills you need to document on your resume. All that stuff is marketing. Not sure what they teach in school, probably advertising or some crap that you'll never use.
DEI I thought you were the thread starter when I responded BTW. Man I need my post-editing status back because I shoot first.
Nah, I appreciate it. I'll tell my cousin about it. It doesn't sound like you'll be very valuable to the company, though. My marketing professor told us that marketing people are the first to get axed whenever a company starts ailing.
