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Cox event helps with interviews
Austin Reed, Contributing Writer, atreed@smu.edu
Issue date: 9/14/07 Section: News
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On Thursday, Cox business majors got the chance to learn how to successfully prepare for the scariest and most stressful part of their future careers: the interview.
Eight representatives from global consulting firm Booz Allen Hamilton hosted a lecture at 5:30 p.m. in the Maguire building for senior Cox students on how to successfully win over an employer during the initial case interviews.
Five of them graduated with majors in business at Cox, including recent '06 alums Christina Woodard, Blake Houghton and Ryan Delaney.
Cookies and drinks were served in the lecture hall as Andrew Clyde, a BBA from SMU, described the hiring program that Booz Allen had created in league with SMU Cox School of Business. The program was specially designed for emphasis on a wide variety of consulting jobs, with an emphasis on helping undergrads quickly find their first full-time jobs out of college.
Clyde then went on to give students a greater knowledge about Allen's wide array of connections in manufacturing, retail and science research throughout the world, before handing it over to the three recent alumni who in turn provided details about how they adjusted to their jobs. The alumni also talked about combating the fears and misconceptions of interviewing sessions.
Details were given on the hyper-competitive world of consulting, with stories of travels to Paris, the Middle East and all over the continental U.S. to work with clients in a vast array of jobs and outlets including oil companies in Saudi Arabia, tourism markets in Beirut and solar wind companies in northern Europe.
The three graduates also detailed the day-to-day life as a consultant, a job that includes an extensive amount of traveling and long hours, requires intense teamwork and a knack for improvisation.
After the original introductions, Kellogg graduate Chris Click began a slideshow presentation, which described in detail how the interviewing process would go and what criteria the applicants would be graded on.
Eight representatives from global consulting firm Booz Allen Hamilton hosted a lecture at 5:30 p.m. in the Maguire building for senior Cox students on how to successfully win over an employer during the initial case interviews.
Five of them graduated with majors in business at Cox, including recent '06 alums Christina Woodard, Blake Houghton and Ryan Delaney.
Cookies and drinks were served in the lecture hall as Andrew Clyde, a BBA from SMU, described the hiring program that Booz Allen had created in league with SMU Cox School of Business. The program was specially designed for emphasis on a wide variety of consulting jobs, with an emphasis on helping undergrads quickly find their first full-time jobs out of college.
Clyde then went on to give students a greater knowledge about Allen's wide array of connections in manufacturing, retail and science research throughout the world, before handing it over to the three recent alumni who in turn provided details about how they adjusted to their jobs. The alumni also talked about combating the fears and misconceptions of interviewing sessions.
Details were given on the hyper-competitive world of consulting, with stories of travels to Paris, the Middle East and all over the continental U.S. to work with clients in a vast array of jobs and outlets including oil companies in Saudi Arabia, tourism markets in Beirut and solar wind companies in northern Europe.
The three graduates also detailed the day-to-day life as a consultant, a job that includes an extensive amount of traveling and long hours, requires intense teamwork and a knack for improvisation.
After the original introductions, Kellogg graduate Chris Click began a slideshow presentation, which described in detail how the interviewing process would go and what criteria the applicants would be graded on.
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