Word: penge
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...Peng typically spends three to five hours a day preparing, organizing, and contacting company representatives. Coming into this semester, she knew that recruiting would be a serious time commitment. What she did not realize is that she must literally structure her life around recruiting until she gets an offer...
...competition with fellow seniors, Peng says, “there is more a sense of commiseration than of competition.” Yet the soft spoken Brookline native certainly has fire in her belly. She speaks with authority when discussing her experience and capability and she is positive that she is qualified for all the positions for which she is applying...
Peng’s resume is colored with four years of term-time work at a Boston law firm and summer jobs at an Internet start-up and Monitor Consulting, respectively. Last summer Peng had to choose between satisfying an innate desire to study in China and possibly solidifying her post-graduate plans. The prospect of interning at a firm that could offer her a full-time position at the end of the summer was appealing. A full-time offer would save her from the hectic months of recruiting...
With this in mind, Peng has already dropped résumés with three different companies that combined have over twenty offices in Asia. Peng decided that it would be wiser to send résumés toall the firms where she would ever even consider working. She did not want to limit her search at the outset and then be left without so much as a single offer. “I’m not kidding myself,” she says. “I know my outlook is pessimistic, but it is mirrored...
...mindblowing. She has read books on recruiting, practiced answering interview questions and made connections at most of the information sessions she has attended. When she returns home after these sessions, she completes her recruiting homework for the day. On the backs of each of the business cards she collected, Peng jots down notes about her contacts, their conversation, and whether she should follow up with them via e-mail...