didn't know!!!

So I was looking around the CDC site as well as my JobFinder account and realized that there's this awesome tool which tells you the average salary of a certain individual with a certain degree with a certain job title. That's really useful especially when coming to compare job offers ad starting to accept/negotiate/decline them. This tool is in the JobFinder account homepage/Career Search/Salary Wizard = NICE!!!

fresh start ;)

so not too much ended up working out until now... but I do have more practice with interviews, both on campous as well as on site. That will definitely be useful. As for my fresh start: I've contacted a couple of people including my bosses from my summer internship to see if they have any suggestions for me / who I should contact. So hopefully we'll see where to go from there. I'm excited!!!

and the word is...

So I heard back from the department in Houston... they decided that it wasn't a good fit for me unfortunately.. the other department called me today and told me to wait because they hadn't interviewed anyone else yet and they would early December. So, I'm going to call my bosses from the summer and ask them if they have recommendations for any other departments within the company that I could interview with. I'm sure something else will come up but I havce to pick it up now.

Still waiting

so I e-mailed my contact recruiter on saturday to see if there was any progress in my application process. I still haven't heard back from him, so I called another contact I had (the one who called me from Argentina) to ask her but she wasn't at her desk. So I left a message and hopefully someone will get back at me soon. :(

uyyy... :(

So I still haven't heard from the department in Houston with Company X. I really want that job. I e-mailed my contact person about two weeks from when I went to interview and I got an automatic reply from his e-mail telling me that he was out of the office until Oct. 27th because he was in Nigeria. I got a phone call the next day from another representative from the same department telling me that she was in Argentina and that they weren't going to be able to get back to me until the following week. I started getting scared so when a different department in Company X called me for an on-site interview I said yes. I just went this past weekend. I flew down to Fairfax, VA on Sunday, and returned last night. I enjoyed the experience but I really prefer the department in Houston since the job seems to fit my personality much better as well as I really really like Houston. A friend of mine, received an offer from the same company but with a different department down in Houston as well and has offered to get an apt. with me. Unfortunately, I still have no offer and I'm really worried. Let's see what happens. :(

My Interview!!!

So I went to Houston this past Thursday to interview with Company X. I left Worcester Thursday at 7 AM to catch a flight from Logan Aiport. My hostess picked me up from the aiport, and then we drove around Houston for a bit while she explained the different areas of the city. She then dropped me off at the hotel I would be staying at. She then pricked me up a couple of hours later to go to dinner. It was my hostess, a coworker, and myself. I asked questions about the department they worked in, about their new hire process and future career plans. The next morning, my hostess picked me up around 6:45 to go to breakfast and meet up with my first interviewer. My day ahead: 5 interviews back to back with a lunch in between. It was an awesome experience. I met a lot of brilliant, succesfull people who were all very excited about bringing new hires to their departments. They talked about their career paths, about their resposabilities and roles, and finally asked a couple of questions. My last interview was with the head recruitment person. His main job was to see if I was a good fit for the department. My hostess took me back to the aiport and I flew back to Mass. As nerve-wrecking as it was at first, I really enoyed my time there. It wa sa great learning experience and great practice for any future site interviewws I may have. I am really hoping I get an offer from them. We'll see what happens! ;)

Got an Interview!

So Company X called me back. They've asked that I come to Houston to interview with them on October 9th. I'm so excited! It will be a full day interview process in which I will interview with five different people. To prepare for this I'll make sure I have a good professional wardrobe for two days. I will also read about the department and make sure I know some of the background, products/services, and have some questions prepared about the department as well as the company in general. We'll see how it goes!!!!!