Ding! Ding! Ding!

The sound that you are hearing is the sound of my ship finally sailing in. Earlier this morning, I received an internship offer. It is the second offer I have received and the first that I am actually excited about.

 

I first heard about this company when I was in India. A classmate had turned down an internship from it because he had already accepted an offer elsewhere. He emailed the hiring manager (a Kenan-Flagler grad) and recommended me as a possible candidate. I did a phone interview from the hotel in Delhi at 3am local time and had the company interview on Tuesday here in Chapel Hill. The manager told me they were looking to hire pretty quickly and when I heard nothing by Thursday I had assumed I was not getting an offer.

 

This company works with major e-commerce retailers on how to best market their products online. With the exception of the internship in Atlanta to put a media company’s contents on mobile devices, this internship is the best opportunity for me in terms of getting into the field that I want to get into after getting my MBA.

 

It took me a total of five seconds to tell the hiring manager that I would accept the job. I start tomorrow. I guess I won’t be working as a finance teaching assistant for this summer’s pre-MBA workshop.