Internships
- So…you want to work abroad?
- Your Internship Search Summer Checklist
- Accounting: Bigger than the Big 4
- Wall Street Vs. Main Street: Finding the Ideal Company Size for You
- Searching for Summer Internships While Abroad
- Making the Most of Your Summer Internship
- The World Is Your Oyster
- Testimonials Outside The Box Marketing Jobs
Interviews
Networking
Professionalism
Recruitment
The Bottom Line featuring Christopher Kalloo
The Bottom Line is a student run podcast that goes in depth on the recruiting process. Through interviews with GW alum and industry leaders, The Bottom Line provides you with the tools and insights from industry leaders that will help make you successful in the job...
The Power of UBER Networking
I’d like to share a networking experience. It was a rainy Saturday night at the beginning of February. Still very cold in DC. So, when I left the Gelman Library, I decided to take an Uber home. It was nearly 9 p.m. I stayed silent in Gelman for 11 hours, so when I got...
Keeping in Touch with Your Employer After the Internship
As the semester winds down, many of us will be leaving our semester internship or preparing to begin our summer internship in the next few week. With these transitions in mind, I wanted to share a few tips that I have about keeping up conversations with...
The Opportunity Cost of Managing Time
Our entire lives we have been told that time management is an essential skill, especially for when we enter into the workplace. Instead, what if I were to tell you that it in order to manage our time, we should focus first on managing our energy? When I think of the...
Asking the Right Questions During an Interview
Of all the advice Fowler Coordinators can give underclassmen about the recruitment process for internships, I believe that emphasizing thorough research is the number one priority to standing out from the dozens, and sometimes hundreds, of applicants aiming for a...
So…you want to work abroad?
In my year as a Fowler Coordinator, I have met an astounding number of students in search of interning abroad, even if it is just for a month or two. Luckily, I have some experience in that area. Like many, I was not entirely sure what I wanted to do for my sophomore...
Your Internship Search Summer Checklist
Attention underclassmen! While you are still in “productive mode” leading up to finals, it is wise to create a strategy for this summer’s professional development. Many of you are reaching the point in your college career where you will start shifting your attention...
Body Language in Your Job Interview
Back in October 2016, when I was deep in the weeds of the summer finance internship application process, I ran into an issue while getting ready for interviews. I had already made my interview preparation goals very clear: (1) I will conduct extensive research in...
Accounting: Bigger than the Big 4
When most people hear the word Accounting, their minds instantly jump to someone sitting in a cubicle with an old-fashioned calculator crunching numbers from 9 to 5. I have got to admit, I was definitely one of those people. That was until I went through the...
Wall Street Vs. Main Street: Finding the Ideal Company Size for You
It’s no secret one of the key factors that contributes to what it’s like to work at a company is simply the number of total employees. This affects how many markets the company operates in, the amount of business it handles on an annual basis, and the size of its...