Last week, I was rejected for a job with Boeing.
Normally, I would feel let down by such a failure, try to understand why Boeing didn't think I was good enough, and rationalize to myself that I really am a good person and it was Boeing's loss and not mine (essentially my same reaction to being rejected by girls.)
However, last week when I received that "job opening has been filled" email, I brushed it aside. The reason: that job was a summer internship for last summer, and I applied for it about 6 months ago. In the past six months, I have probably been rejected by Boeing for a dozen different internships--most of the rejections coming in June and July when I was already working somewhere else.
Getting into a job or internship is a fickle process. From my experience, it is a far cry from the straightforward college admissions process that everyone at WashU should be familiar with. Companies do not send out brochures or those little CD's the size of business cards to students with high PSAT scores. Companies do not have January 15 deadlines. Companies do not wait list the borderline applicants. What does it take to land a job? Well...I'm going to leave that for the other Career Peers and my future posts. If you really want to know, just drop on by Umrath Hall and visit with one of us or an advisor (basically Career Peers in grownup form).
So, I should probably say who I am. Besides being a Career Peer with WashU's Career Center, I'm a senior mechanical engineering student from Utah, and I like to gripe about Boeing.
-Dave
Normally, I would feel let down by such a failure, try to understand why Boeing didn't think I was good enough, and rationalize to myself that I really am a good person and it was Boeing's loss and not mine (essentially my same reaction to being rejected by girls.)
However, last week when I received that "job opening has been filled" email, I brushed it aside. The reason: that job was a summer internship for last summer, and I applied for it about 6 months ago. In the past six months, I have probably been rejected by Boeing for a dozen different internships--most of the rejections coming in June and July when I was already working somewhere else.
Getting into a job or internship is a fickle process. From my experience, it is a far cry from the straightforward college admissions process that everyone at WashU should be familiar with. Companies do not send out brochures or those little CD's the size of business cards to students with high PSAT scores. Companies do not have January 15 deadlines. Companies do not wait list the borderline applicants. What does it take to land a job? Well...I'm going to leave that for the other Career Peers and my future posts. If you really want to know, just drop on by Umrath Hall and visit with one of us or an advisor (basically Career Peers in grownup form).
So, I should probably say who I am. Besides being a Career Peer with WashU's Career Center, I'm a senior mechanical engineering student from Utah, and I like to gripe about Boeing.
-Dave
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