http://www.mscareergirl.com/2010/02/18/the-senior-series-interviews-out-of-town-and-out-of-pocket/ the blog for ambitions young professional women. Wed, 08 Feb 2012 18:08:12 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.mscareergirl.com/2010/02/18/the-senior-series-interviews-out-of-town-and-out-of-pocket/#comment-6739 The Senior Series: Should Seniors Skip Spring Break this Year? Thu, 04 Mar 2010 14:16:14 +0000 http://www.mscareergirl.com/?p=2135#comment-6739 [...] break in snowy Ohio, working hard to land an entry-level career. The frustrating part is, I already spent a big chunk of my spring break savings back in January traveling for an out-of-town job interview [...] [...] break in snowy Ohio, working hard to land an entry-level career. The frustrating part is, I already spent a big chunk of my spring break savings back in January traveling for an out-of-town job interview [...]

]]> http://www.mscareergirl.com/2010/02/18/the-senior-series-interviews-out-of-town-and-out-of-pocket/#comment-5912 Srinivas Rao Thu, 18 Feb 2010 15:49:24 +0000 http://www.mscareergirl.com/?p=2135#comment-5912 This is an interesting dilemma. It's a tough call because you want to appear eager, but you also don't want to shoot yourself in the foot. AS somebody who finished graduate school last year, I got to a point where I started turning down interviews. I actually would ask employers "Can you please tell me if this is a job that pays 10$ or an hour is entry level because that's not what I'm looking for?" After wasting gas money and time on several interviews like that I realized that you had to have a filtering process and place more value on yourself. I know someone who thought a good strategy was to apply to every job on the internet which was a complete waste of time. That person is still not employed. Some alternatives that might work include: using skype or doing video interviews. While it's not the same as doing an interview in person, companies need to be considerate of situations like this. I would be really wary of a company that doesn't pick up travel expenses, especially for a college senior driving 700 miles. But that's just my take. This is an interesting dilemma. It’s a tough call because you want to appear eager, but you also don’t want to shoot yourself in the foot. AS somebody who finished graduate school last year, I got to a point where I started turning down interviews. I actually would ask employers “Can you please tell me if this is a job that pays 10$ or an hour is entry level because that’s not what I’m looking for?” After wasting gas money and time on several interviews like that I realized that you had to have a filtering process and place more value on yourself. I know someone who thought a good strategy was to apply to every job on the internet which was a complete waste of time. That person is still not employed. Some alternatives that might work include: using skype or doing video interviews. While it’s not the same as doing an interview in person, companies need to be considerate of situations like this. I would be really wary of a company that doesn’t pick up travel expenses, especially for a college senior driving 700 miles. But that’s just my take.

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