Wow, so I guess it’s been a while since I’ve blogged! Surprise, surprise. Maybe that speaks to how busy recruiting season is. Or maybe it just means I’m bad at keeping up with my blog. Sorry! I know my blogger counterparts are much better at keeping up with this than I am!
In this entry, I’m going to talk a bit about the interview process during recruitment. For those of you who aren’t familiar with recruitment, several accounting firms of local, national and global size travel to UT’s campus during the spring to interview MPA students for potential internships. First, we as students must submit our resumes to the firms in which we are interested (this is done through OCR, a McCombs Web site). After the resume submission period is over, the firms sort through all of the resumes and select the students whom they want to interview. We find out whether or not we are selected through the same Web site, and, if we are selected, we then have the opportunity to sign up for an interview time. This whole process happened before spring break in March.
Fast-forward two weeks. For the first time in my life, I’m in panic mode on a Friday at 4 in the afternoon. I’m looking at my schedule for the following week: Continue reading Next step: Interviews