Meeting with a Mentor
April 01, 2009 - by Kanishka KelshikarI must apologize to everyone for not keeping my blog updated. March has been an eventful and thus, busy month for me on both, professional and personal fronts. Fortunately, spring break did provide some respite! Alright, so now back to the grind. Recently, I caught up with one of my mentors, who is the managing partner of a private equity fund in midtown Manhattan. We spoke about the economy and how the finance industry will be structurally different going forward.
Needless to say, we hit the topic of careers and job opportunities for graduating students. She did agree that we are in very challenging times in the job markets given that we have been losing over 600,000 jobs per month for the past couple of months. However, she emphasized that in times like these, only the relationships that you have developed that will push your résumé/application through the door. She said that she would connect me with a recruiter at Accenture, a global management consulting, technology services and outsourcing company, to see if we can get some wheels rolling. Well, I am keeping my fingers crossed about Accenture but for now, I am still reaching out to everyone I know.
