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Career Launch- Recruiting Prep for New Transfers & Grads(Tentative)

Recruiting timeline

  • Late summer early fall
    • Finance, consulting, business analytics, Tech
    • This is the consulting season
  • October
    • Some consulting
    • Marketing, PR, tech and startup
  • Late fall and early winter
    • Investment banking

Onground Interviewing

  • Begins on September 15

Strategic Networking

  • Coffee chats with employers
  • VAM
  • Linkedin
  • Personal contact
  • What networking is not is blatantly asking for a job, collecting business cards is not networking, giving out resumes is not networking
  • networking is having some sort of relationship with people

Why networking

How to find people

  • Linkedin
    • Filter in UVA’s alumni’s page
  • Virginia Alumni Mentorship
    • There are groups
  • Career Shift
    • Public data like email of people
    • Can’t get some of this in linkedin
  • Clubs
  • Attend career events in handshake

How to reach out

  • Short, specific and personalized
  • Interests
  • Need commonality

Networking tips

  • Be yourself
  • Try to have a conversation not an interview
  • Have a tracking system
    • Excel sheet
    • Name, company, what you talked about and the date, follow up
  • always follow up. Even if the meeting didn’t go well send a thank you email
  • Stay connected. Even after you get a job, give them updates.
  • You will hit some roadblock and every connection will help
  • You are always networking. even in mundane place like a barber shop

Career fair

  • Location is in the suites (Stadium)
  • Each employer will have their own suite
  • Bring water
  • There will be around 1000 people for 40 employers
  • Some fairs at Newcomb ballroom
    • Traditional fairs
  • You’ll only have 2 to 5 minutes
    • Resume
    • Two questions
  • Wear professional attire

Tips

  • Resume review
    • Go to the career center
    • VMock - an AI system
  • Elevator pitch
  • Research the employers
    • Only ask questions that the data is not available publicaly
    • prepare questions before hand

Making your background work for you

  • Own your story

Tools

  • Handshake
  • VAM
  • Vmock
  • Management Consulted
    • For business consultants