<p>are those jobs easier to obtain than those of iBanking? How do salaries compare?</p>
<p>I am a URM attending a top undergrad business school, and will probably have a 3.3-3.4 GPA upon graduation, good EC's, do I have a shot of landing a job in the finance department at a place like 20th Century Fox, or Google? (I want to move to go back to the west coast post graduation)</p>
<p>Much easier, salaries much lower.</p>
<p>Very easy given your solid gpa and strong school. Its one of the few fields hiring grads in the business world (along with IT and sales)</p>
<p>^^well I actually don’t know about google and fox. They hire the best of the best and your gpa isn’t quite up there with the best.</p>
<p>Google won’t even talk to you unless your GPA is 3.7 or above and you graduated from a top 25 program. They do have some contractors that they hire where those stats don’t apply–but those jobs are also difficult to get.</p>
<p>Kind of stupid rules if you ask me–especially since the rules apply to people who have been out of school for 25 years as well as those who are recent grads. As a person with 25 years of experience and a 3.5 GPA from UCLA’s MBA program, I’m among those who they won’t even talk to.</p>
<p>if you are a URM, I have heard the GPA isn’t as crucial. Any truth to this?</p>
<p>For places like Google, they literally have people begging to work for them so they have the option to pick who they want and set what rules they want. The best way to get jobs at places like Google or big name brands is to network and have someone in the company refer you directly so your resume doesn’t get stuck in the 10000 applications for each position.</p>
<p>commentcomment is exactly right. If you don’t already know someone who works there–either in the department where you want to work or as a recruiter, you are at a major disadvantage. I know 5 people who work there (3 regular employees, 1 contract employee, and one who is a recruiter that I worked with on a previous occasion) and as I said, I still couldn’t get an interview.</p>
<p>(Not that I’m worried about it since I recently took a new job with a well-known Fortune 500 high-tech cell phone manufacturer located less than 2 miles away).</p>
<p>I know at least 10 people who work for Google and I doubt any of them has a GPA>3.7 but all of them graduated from top 10 universities in both technical and non-technical fields. They also have a younger workforce. Google is the only company that I know of that has several laundry rooms (bigger and nicer than the average laundromats) for their young apt dwelling workers to do their laundry for free.</p>
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<p>Top 5, top 10? It’s hard if you aren’t from Stanford (econ) or Wharton or Haas. Google recruits heavily from Stanford, even their administrative assistants have come from Stanford in the early days.</p>
<p>NYU Stern…so I wouldn’t have a regional advantage.</p>
<p>Your best bet is to apply through on campus recruiting. Does Google go to Stern to recruit?
If not, just send them an application to see what happens. Good luck.</p>
<p>Better yet, find the person who needs that intern or employee. For example you see a listing for a Finance intern at company X. Instead of going to HR who is hiring and screening on behalf of the person in charge of Finance or the person looking for that intern, go find that person directly. Cut out the middleman. Ask the person what is required of the position, whats going down, and pitch to him. Why pitch to HR when your gonna be working under finance? If he likes you, its so much easier to get the position.</p>
<p>but commentcomment, how do you figure out whothat person in the finance dept. is?</p>
<p>Check out Indeed, contact information, call their offices. Chances are, you will not be able to find out from their website and people who work for PR or customer service will be reluctant to give out their contact information so you need to do a little digging.</p>
<p>Remember that girl in high school you had a crush on and wanted to learn more about her but you were afraid to approach her so you spoke with her friends and asked whether she had a boyfriend and for her aim sn? same techniques apply here.</p>