<p>^The more recent ones, as per advice of college career office. What I think is happening is that businesses are being inundated with resumes. The bank HR person I referenced above said they get 80,000 applications for each available internship. So the personnel people have developed a system for eliminating the majority of applicants. But then they still have a hundred or so left. If D’s resume doesn’t get rejected early on for GPA or something else and she makes it to the interview stage, then the hiring managers go through their qualification checklist again to cull the interviewed applicants. D seems to be failing in the campus involvement/campus leadership category. I could see it if she failed in the experience-relevant-to-position category, or for not having enough coursework in accounting/finance/marketing, CS/whatever_______ . But for not being involved enough, that was a surprise.</p>
<p>Gfg
Your D may have just had some bad luck during her interview process. I know of a D1 swimmer from a state flagship school who recently graduated with a business degree who went to work for Apple after declining a job offer from a major investment banking firm on Wall Street. As she continue to interview hopefully she will encounter a recruiter who appreciates her work ethic which she developed while being a student athlete.</p>
<p>GFG, I sympathize with you and your daughter, but I agree with swimkidsdad, she has just encountered a few recruiters that don’t get it. Although not an athlete, I was really scared for my son as he approached graduation last December. He is the exact opposite of my daughter, zero involvement in any EC’s less than stellar grades, graduating from the dreaded no-name state university with a degree in electrical engineering. I was reading all the news about engineering jobs being outsourced, the numbers and starting salaries falling, contract jobs the new thing, scary stuff to a new graduate. On top of that, my husband had 3 EE’s working for him as techs who had graduated several years before. I was really worried for my son! </p>
<p>My son took a non traditional path through college, changing majors his senior year from business to engineering. It took him 7 1/2 years to graduate, working 20-32 hrs a week until the last 3 semesters. He never did any internships because he worked/went to school every summer. He finally applied for several internships for the summer before his final semester and secured a well paid internship with a national company. The recruiter was impressed with the fact that he had switched from business to engineering, the opposite of what they usually see, and that he had such good communication skills for an engineering major. They were willing to overlook the horrible GPA and lack of any EC’s because of his work experience and unusual story. In Sept., he attended a one day certification course held by a national company and the trainers, also intrigued by his story, gave him contact info for the lead recruiter for their division. By the time my son spoke to this guy, he knew his whole backstory and my son was fast tracked through the whole recruiting process. He had a offer in early November and started in January, with a good salary, great benefits and relocation package.</p>
<p>My point to all this is that it just takes meeting the right person, the recruiter that gets your daughter and the commitment she has made as a college athlete. They are out there, I know! When I tell people that my daughter is a college athlete, they are impressed, and she doesn’t go to nearly as impressive a school as your daughter. I recently had someone ask if she was looking for an internship this summer and give me his contact info, because a mutual friend mentioned my daughter was a rower and he had rowed in college also. The people who get it are out there, I have confidence your daughter will find them!</p>
<p>Thanks for the inspiring words, everyone!</p>
<p>TheGFG</p>
<p>I have appreciated reading your thoughts and the experience of your student.</p>
<p>Our K1 is in a yr round sport and at a top U…the sport demands 2 a days (one on your own and one with team) and K1 is a STEM major.</p>
<p>For the last several summers K1 has participated in the sport a- even last summer competed int’l… so the commitment to the sport is high</p>
<p>OTOH as a STEM major the P sets, labs etc are time consuming…so beyond class and sport…there is no time for anything else…
K1 might try to secure a job on campus for the spring.</p>
<p>K1 will be working on the resume and trying to find a summer job.
So this thread has been helpful
thanks</p>