Joel did his recap, but I want to do my own. I went back and forth all afternoon on whether or not to go to the Mardi Gras career fair. It includes all universities in the city and is done annually in the Hilton downtown. As of late most everything I do is related to internship stress. I need one for the coming summer and while I, being absolutely brilliant, should get any internship I want (right!), you have to go out and make it happen for yourself. No one (literally) is going to help you make it happen. You have to pound the pavement and look for it. Thus, the MG fair. It was mostly for undergrands. All the finance positions were in “independent sales.” That means folks like MassMutual and New York Life who want you to go out and do your own entrepreneurial search for business to put in their portfolio. You get to keep a percentage. There were local companies, tech ventures, oil and gas, hotels and more. The thing was they were mostly looking for entry-level help. GREAT for the undergrads.
In the end I did go with a short list of those that listed that they may be interested in grad students. I found in the end that a company listing only “engineers” as the target audience, and whom I thought was a long shot, actually loved my resume, asked me for an interview the next day and seemed to be very interested asking me for a second interview. Fingers are crossed. Moral: every experience has at least some potential. It did take me a parking ticket, five hours and some resume refinement to get there, but a lead is a lead.
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