Word: firms
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...stock phrase from this year's recruiting sessions is a variation of: "We know a lot of these slide presentations and speeches sound alike. We're going to show you tonight what makes our firm stand...
...Firms encourage students to ask questions to determine whether the candidate and firm would have what have become key words in recruiting lingo: a good...
...companies provide a remedy. Instead of asking questions, curious students can choose to speak with company representatives at the end of the information sessions. The students say this also gives them a chance to learn about the character of a firm. Benjamin A. Rahn '99-'00 says students can overestimate the utility of this person-to-person interaction. "A lot use the opportunity to schmooze and get business cards and think it will help them in the process," says Rahn, who spent last summer as a consulting intern. "I don't think that's particularly useful. What is useful...
Rahn had suggestions for students who are not sure what questions will eventually help them decide where they want to work. He says asking firm representatives what they find exciting in their jobs is a good way to determine...
Christine M. Rohrbeck '00, who has accepted an offer to work at investment banking firm Morgan Stanley Dean Witter in New York next year, says such students face "an awkward social situation...