Word: exxon
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...interview, Swersey tries to sum up the impressions, interests, and concerns of both himself and the potential employee. When both parties understand each other, Swersey feels they have come to a satisfactory conclusion--which might mean the realization that the student is not right for Exxon...
Swersey knows that B-School students are highly sought after and says he feels one of his responsibilities is "to assume people have a lot of choices--my job is to explain what Exxon has to offer." If he fails to do so to his satisfaction during the interview, he makes sure to rectify matters during the student's New York visit, "When we find people we want, we go after them--we want quality people and so does everyone else. There has to be individual attention...
...first-year salaries offered to some graduates of Stanford and Harvard Business Schools, many observers have compared the intense bidding for graduates of the nation's more prestigious business schools to the high-priced baseball free agent market. If this analogy is an apt one, then Exxon's Max McCreery is the MBA market's George Steinbrenner. As chief corporate recruiter for Exxon's New York headquarters, McCreery can offer prospective executives the same inducements the Yankee owner dangles before baseball stars--a high salary, a successful employer, and a name almost synonomous with the business it represents. McCreery...
...School's plush Hamilton lounge promptly at 5 p.m. to exchange social amenities with the men and women who will be valuating them for the next two days. Next to the hors d'oeuvres and cocktails are reprints of an August, 1980, New York Times Magazine article: "Inside Exxon: Managing an $85 Billion-a-Year Empire." The men are a sea of blue and gray pinstripes; the women wrapped in tastefully muted tailored skirts and jackets with the ubitquitous string bow tie or large silk bow. Bits of conversation between the similarly Dressed-For-Success Exxon recruiters and the students...
...interview reception will give recruiter and student a good exposure to each other. Then, during the 30 minutes allotted for each interview, they can, in one interviewer's words, "concentrate on the business at hand": obtaining the cream of the B-School crop, which will eventually oversee Exxon's corporate empire...