Mod 2 in progress

Here’s a recap of what’s been happening since my last post. We rounded up Mod 1 and had just four days to relax. I made a quick dash to the Magic city and had a great time with my family. For the current Mod, I toyed with the idea of taking five classes so I’ll have only one class to take in my last Mod in school. I dropped it to just four classes since the current Mod is the mod of full blast campus interviews. I think my classes this Mod are the coolest… (If only the gazillion interviews will let me attend them). I’m taking Private Equity, Financing Deals & M&A, Advanced Financial Reporting and Investing in Sustainable Enterprise (Makes me feel all warm and fuzzy).

Speaking of interviews, I got my first full time offer (a sweet one too I might add) while I was on break…Wooohooo…It came from the career fair I attended a few weeks ago. The company had invited me to their office a few weeks ago for a two-day final round interview. Very interesting experience. More on this on another day.
The challenge now is that the firm is not working with my school’s recruiting calendar and will like a response within 3 weeks. That is certainly not going to work because I just started on-campus interviews and I intend to explore all possible options before making such a crucial decision. For now, I’m putting those negotiating skills to work to find a win-win position for us both.

I had two interviews last week and one of them got back to me on the same day with an invitation to a “Superday” at their head office yesterday. I really like it when companies have such a quick turnaround. It makes the process much smoother. I’ve never been at a Superday but let me tell you, it is a marathon! Interviews with 6 folks almost back to back. It was well organized and we got some breaks in between. We’ll see how it shakes out. A common theme among all the interviews is that most want to hear about what I did over the summer. The 100 hrs/week of work over the summer is really coming in handy now because I have A LOT to talk about.

We are having an Interview Immersion Day for the first year students today. It’s their first real exposure to mock interviews. From hereon, it’s going to be non-stop until they all become pros. Another interview on Monday, but I need to hit the books today and tomorrow. I have so many classes to catch up with.