<p>Is it at the beginning of senior year, the middle, or towards the end?</p>
<p>Depends the industry. Accounting us at the very beginning. Ibanks are beginning to middle in my experience.</p>
<p>What about a non-traditional job/industry like interning for a Major League Baseball team? Locking up a job early in senior year would be amazing.</p>
<p>I’m asking about my brother. He’s a sophomore at Northwestern University and should graduate with a 3.7 GPA.</p>
<p>Do you hold your brothers hand when he crosses the street? How about your lazy brother goes to talk to people with a lot more knowledge on the subject in his career office.</p>
<p>You’re a bully, big4bound. I do hold my brother’s hand when he crosses the street because he is blind.</p>
<p>Does anyone know when he can expect to be hired?</p>
<p>Right.</p>
<p>When you get hired depends on industry and desire. Examples… There are some restaurant groups who will hire full time managers a year out (so you could have an offer in July before your senior year which would have you start in July after graduation). Many of the top companies in consulting, engineering and trading will extend offers to summer interns at the end of the summer, so 15% of seniors return to school with an offer in hand. The finance companies do fall recruiting and will extend offers in October; consulting firms have more drawn out processes, but the top companies extend offers in late October/early November, and overall most of the companies that do fall recruiting extend their offers by the end of the calendar year.</p>
<p>Restaurants/Hospitality agencies extend their offers toward January or so, so if you’re doing that, don’t expect an offer right now. </p>
<p>Generally speaking, companies do not do very much spring recruiting for Full Time employees since they are focused on recruiting summer interns, so when you are applying for jobs in the spring, you will probably be looking at smaller companies and/or non-standard industries (with standard industries to my knowledge being consulting, finance and engineering), and you will probably have more luck applying directly to the companies as opposed to using your campus’s career services website.</p>
<p>One thing to keep in mind is that if you do choose to do fall recruiting, your GPA matters. With a high GPA (>3.6), you will probably be in contention for all of the top jobs, especially with prior work/internship experience. The process will be stressful but short… first round interviews are usually in September, second round superdays are in October, and you will get decisions and offers in mid to late October. If your GPA isn’t as stellar or if you are not looking to go into Finance/Consulting but still want to do fall recruiting, the process can be very difficult and drawn out. I started applying for jobs in June, and in November I had a week where I submitted five applications, had one first round interview and had a superday. You can be in entirely different stages of the process, so just be ready to experience uncertainty!</p>
<p>chrisw, you are my hero!</p>
<p>Thank you for the thoughtful response.</p>
<p>Exactly what I was looking for.</p>
<p>chrisw or anyone else, do you guys think an intern position with a Major League Baseball team could be secured early senior year or even the summer before senior year?</p>
<p>I suppose getting an internship is possible, I don’t see why it wouldn’t be accessible. Typically interns in top companies are juniors & seniors.</p>
<p>[Career</a> Opportunities | MLB.com: Careers](<a href=“Careers at Major League Baseball | MLB.com”>Careers at Major League Baseball | MLB.com)</p>
<p>^ For details / opportunities</p>
<p>Thanks for the link, wowurrcool.</p>
<p>Nothing comes up, though, when I put Operations, Full-time.</p>
<p>This job would be full-time out of college and it would be for a team, not for MLB Network, the commissioner, or MLB.com.</p>
<p>I’d say it would seem pretty unlikely. Think logically. Major League Baseball organizations’ primary employees are its players, which number in the several hundreds (for every team there are nearly a dozen farm teams, all of whose players are paid by the parent organization). Hiring operations staff isn’t a top priority, and so you don’t really see MLB teams recruiting on college campuses, except for baseball players. If you want a job, apply for one. If they tell you to wait, wait and apply later. Seems pretty intuitive</p>