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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
- 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
- 70% of recruiting happens via networking
- Companies track people who interact. As it was mentioned yesterday in 20250811T160326-linkedin-for-engineers-cs.
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