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...October. “In the race for plum jobs, Pete is probably one of the favorites,” wrote FM in Part I of this series, misguidedly. “I just have an affinity for business. Why not apply to them all?” Idziak said himself. But I-banking, especially this year, is a cruel mistress and Pete did not get any job offers. By his count, he applied to 10 companies and got 10 fairly prompt rejection notices, with nary an invitation to even a first-round interview. Credit Suisse First Boston didn?...
...ordeal that makes each applicant sound like an insane sycophantic freak with a bizarre, fetish-like interest in whatever departments are hiring. Any and all life experiences must be grotesquely contorted to demonstrate an abundance of some personality trait crucial in the business world. Which is how Pete B. Idziak ’02 ended up passing off his ability to move quickly from one end of a pool to another as a skill that would help him be a better Business Analyst for McKinsey & Company...
...chance encounter with an assistant swimming coach (Idziak was a three-time All-American swimmer at Euless Trinity High School in Bedford, TX) during an unplanned visit to the Harvard campus eventually led Idziak to pick, somewhat reluctantly, Cold, Distant Ivy League College over Appealing Fun State University. The distance between Bedford and Cambridge felt even longer when he quit the swimming team after only three weeks. “I got depressed,” he said. “In high school I was always ‘the swimmer,’ and I kind of lost...
...Idziak, a government major and Sigma Chi brother, has never completely shaken that feeling. He took a semester off to go to school at the University of New South Wales and work for I.B.M. in the Olympic Village during the Sydney games. “Going abroad was the best thing I ever did here,” he says, a statement that’s telling even if it is a bit of a non sequitor. Harvard’s lack of a practical business curriculum has made his time here something of a stalling period. Idziak probably would...
Time will tell whether pointing out what Idziak considers his weakest selling point, his grades, was a wise job-hunting strategy. Certainly the other elements of his résumé are very impressive. He comes across as a man who really, really likes efficiency, especially efficiency that can be expressed in percentages. The summer after his freshman year he worked at a Texas law firm and “Eliminated 30% of office paper by linking incoming facsimiles electronically to office intranet.” Junior year: “Implemented a multi-media marketing campaign [for a computer...