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<p>My GPA is somewhat above average. Its not 'good' by GE standdards. The only thing I have going for me is attitude and communication skills. Seriously, you can have a great resume, great gpa, whatever. If you fail in the interview, you are done. Work on your interview skills, that is v. important. Actually, the only work related experience I wrote on my resume is a project I did 2nd semester of my freshman college year.</p>

<p>1) Know what you are talking about, know how to market your strengths
2) Don't show any signs of nervousness, don't stumble
3) Appear confident in yourself, stay relaxed, talk slow and think twice</p>

<p>That really helped me. Which GE are you guys applying for? What are your majors?</p>

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Which GE are you guys applying for? What are your majors?

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I'm majoring in M E. I'm not sure which GE I'm applying for; I'm just going to hand my resume to one of the representatives during Fall Career Fair. Did you apply to specific one?</p>

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<p>I'm majoring in IE and hoping to get into their Aviation division. </p>

<p>1) If I plan to start my coop in July, when will I apply? in Jan?
2) Moreover, do you apply to a specific division or to GE in general?
3) "My GPA is somewhat above average. Its not 'good' by GE standards". Whats good by GE standards? 3.5?</p>

<p>Thanks</p>

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I'm majoring in M E. I'm not sure which GE I'm applying for; I'm just going to hand my resume to one of the representatives during Fall Career Fair. Did you apply to specific one?

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Yes, I applied to Transportation and specifically Infrastructure. If you are ME I would honestly recommend <em>not</em> doing transportation. At least, not in Erie/Grove City. You will be somewhere between a drafter and an IE in your tasks</p>

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I'm majoring in IE and hoping to get into their Aviation division. </p>

<p>1) If I plan to start my coop in July, when will I apply? in Jan?
2) Moreover, do you apply to a specific division or to GE in general?
3) "My GPA is somewhat above average. Its not 'good' by GE standards". Whats good by GE standards? 3.5?

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<p>1) Starting co-op in July? GE prefers you start in the beginning of the summer/school year. Yea, Jan is fine.
2) You apply to a specific division
3) I'd say the average GPA of the people I work with is somewhere around 3.6ish. 3.0 is the cut off, but you knew that already.</p>

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<p>iloveagoodbrew, I interviewed with GE Security, which is under the Industrial and Consumer division. </p>

<p>Since I am in electrical engineering, I don't think it is required that you be in IE in order to be considered. However, the other student from my school (who probably got the job in OMLP) was a junior in IE. </p>

<p>Leadership development is a keystone of GE and I think above all, the interview questions reflected that. Off the top of my head, I do remember questions along the lines of:</p>

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<li>Strengths/weaknesses</li>
<li>Talk about a time you made a mistake--how did you deal with it?<br></li>
<li>What interests you in manufacturing and leadership? </li>
<li>What qualities make you an effective individual?<br></li>
</ul>

<p>Hope that helps--I'll post more if I can remember them.</p>

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<p>ilovegoodbrew,</p>

<p>If you are accepted to one GE company, lets say GE Nuclear, how difficult is it to switch to GE Healthcare or another company?</p>

<p>Are they completely independent?</p>

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- Talk about a time you made a mistake--how did you deal with it?

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For a question like this, can you say something like you plagerized in high school but you approached the teacher the next day and learned learned something from this experience?</p>

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<p>I probably won't get hired if I say this right? That's probably something they don't want to hear.</p>

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<p>Phone interviews with GE Energy for internship? Can anyone discuss?</p>

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5 interviews, eh?! damn... Sounds like a lot of interviews. lol..

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<p>FYI, this is fairly typical for full-time jobs.</p>

<p>One interview I had with a FFRDC was with five or six people throughout the course of the day, then I had to make a technical presentation to a roomfull of PhDs. One person asked me to derive the triangular shape element from finite element methods. (Yeeauuugh...) Didn't want to stay in LA, so when they followed up to ask me to do ANOTHER day of interviewing with a more specific department, I declined.</p>

<p>For the interview at my current job, I interviewed with 7 people, two others took me to lunch and grilled me there, and then the boss and another engineer took me to dinner. The interview day lasted twelve hours-- longest interview I've had.</p>

<p>Shortest interview was with a huge aerospace conglomerate. It lasted 45 minutes and they read standardized questions off of cards in a conference room. I didn't get a good feel for the company that way, so I didn't accept their offer.</p>

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For a question like this, can you say something like you plagerized in high school but you approached the teacher the next day and learned learned something from this experience?

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<p>It's <em>probably</em> all right. If you 'fessed up to your teacher pretty quickly, interviewers are less likely to hold it against you. In fact, admitting a mistake like that in a risk-intense situation like a job interview might come across as you showing moral fiber, and that you're not afraid to take risks to answer questions truthfully.</p>

<p>Or you could end up with someone who has a crusade against plagiarists, and you'll tank it.</p>

<p>It's a little risky, but not like saying, "I once killed a man in cold blood. That was a mistake. I learned a lot about tarps."</p>

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<p>I got the intern for next summer as well, in GE transportation. Anyone knows what I am going to do in the inter? Any chance that I can stay in GE?</p>

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<p>What location will you be interning? Did you have a phone interview by any chance?</p>

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<p>I'll intern in PA. They didn't give me any phone interview. After the job fair, on campus, I got a call from them. Then an interview the next day. And then I got the offer at that night.
It's amazingly fast...</p>

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<p>Better wages yes, security I would say no. They cut 10% of their work force every year. </p>

<p>You need to be the best at what you do no matter where you work.</p>

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<p>OK-so son was offered an internship with GE/EID Houston, TX. Can anyone share any info about this--type of work, housing, adequate salary/housing stipend, any info? Thanks!</p>

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<p>For intern engineer interviews, does GE have behavioral interviews? Asking because ilovegoodbrew said his interview was only 20 minutes. From your experiences, what kind of questions do they ask?</p>

<p>I'm going to be interviewing for an Energy Intern Engineer position this coming week...</p>

<p>Also bumping notre dame AL's post.</p>

<p>Thanks for any insight!</p>

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<p>Hey,</p>

<p>No, the guy who interviewed me didn't do anything complex. Just simple stuff...What do learn in classes, interests, strength/weakness, etc.</p>

<p>good luck, if you have specific q, pm me i'll try to help. oh, i'm going back there next summer too ! :D (grove city)</p>

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<p>Just found this thread... I just accepted a job with GE for OMLP and did 3 co-ops with Aviation. If anyone has any specific questions for me, feel free :-)</p>

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<p>^What kind of stats did you have? Some really well qualified friends of mine were denied...</p>

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<p>3.7 GPA in industrial engineering from a good engineering school, president of an org, study abroad... is that what you're looking for? Not sure what you mean exactly by stats</p>

<p>My co-op managers liked me a lot and helped me out in the process by sending recommendations and such... I know that helped a lot.</p>