Return to “Square One”

I think “return to ‘square one’” sounds much more positive than “back to ‘square one.’” I got the news earlier today via email that I will not be receiving an offer from the credit card division of the major financial firm.

While I am a disappointed, it’s not the end of the world. In preparing for the interview, I finally got around to flipping through a particular book I have been meaning to look at on how to do well on interviews. I will spend a part of my Christmas break drilling down on a couple of chapters that I found to be particularly useful.

It’s safe to say at this point that the majority of companies that will be coming to campus have already made their visits. This means from now on, my search will shift from me going to companies that come to Kenan-Flagler to me contacting companies that I want to work for. There is an event the first week of January in San Francisco sponsored by Kenan-Flagler and three other business schools. The West Coast Forum is an opportunity for west coast companies to interview business school students. Unlike the “black MBA” or the National Society of Hispanic MBA (pronounced nar-SHIMMM-bar) events that I attended, this is not a job fair but an event for interviewers to interview students they have selected ahead of time. I was not planning on going but this past weekend I saw that the companies that will be interviewing there include the two of the bigger names in the internet industry.

On a lighter note, I was driving through campus earlier today and spotted a fellow Virginian who felt the need to broadcast to the entire world his feelings about one of the finest schools in the Atlantic Coast Conference. Ironically, this picture was taken in almost the exact same spot where I took the other picture last month.