Youre fresh out of school with a good degree, internship exp, extracurriculars and a 3.7+ GPA

[☑︎#VoteDemocrat]

You're working a job that provides decent exp but shyt pay and although you are trying to move to something better you keep failing job interview after job interview; one per month.

What do you do?
What do you do brehs?

it can't be them, can it?

 

[Momentum]

I wouldn't whine on the internet.:thiscac:

 

[☑︎#VoteDemocrat]

Lord knows.

I've prepared for hours for some of these jawns.
I've webcammed myself practicing answers
Lord knows I'm fresher than a muhh when I walk into the room
I'm tired of shaving my beard
I've left interviews feeling and knowing that it couldnt have possibly went any better. Didnt make the final round
I've been in interviews where I'm in a suit talking to people in jeans and an american eagle polo...not even making eye contact with me
I've left interviews feeling like it coulda gone better...but this job I have now was one of them.

I am clueless...and too broke/prideful/cynical to even pay for one of them coaches.

what do you do?

have ou considered b-school?

 

[newworldafro]

When it comes to Accounting, getting your foot in the door is the hard part. It took me a year and a half to land a job after graduating. I was stocking shelves in a dusty ass warehouse, dealing with mfs making slick comments about how I wasted my time and money on college. I hooked up with Robert Half Accounting and they set me up with a couple of interviews. I took the first offer and declined the 2nd interview with the other.

Studying for the CPA now. I got a homie down in Houston making about $250k. He's out of accounting but the background + CPA opened all kinds of doors for him.

Is he solo or work with a company? or both??....

 

[Hijo de luna]

Is he solo or work with a company? or both??....

Nah, one of the oil and gas companies down there. I just checked Linkedin, his title is 'Director of Corporate development & Strategy'

 

[Ohene]

you did all that but did you actually network?

You see networking as a university student is something else.

Essentially youre networking with ppl double your age who are too busy for you, cant relate much to you and have no reason/ambition to help. But to answer your question yes.

One example. During my third year I started a club on campus called the Association for Information Systems and went to a campus event at TD Canada Trusts' head office in downtown Toronto to speak with professionals. I had a chance to speak with some of them and got business cards. One dude I got his...emailed him trying to schedule a small sit down and he didnt reply. I came to see a subsequent email after that from my faculty's office that scheduled the meeting asking those who attended the event not to contact x,y,z people and he was one of the ppl listed . The dude was really that bytchmade that he told the faculty to tell us not to email him after i emailed him . Why go to the event then?

But thats not the point. During that event I actually met a dear woman who was also an alumni in my school. We chatted, exchanged info and it also happened that her background was in some of the operational/IT stuff within TD so I thought it was a great opp for me to network with her and build that relationship. I emailed her and she invited me...and my left/right hand men to her office. We had a dope meeting and eventually a second after i called her. She later agreed after meeting 2 (in an email) to provide my club $2000 in sponsorship. I replied to said email asking what a good time for me to visit her in her office would be to handle the administrative stuff and then bloaw she just stopped answering my emails and even my right hand man who was doing an internship at the same company.

Networking is a crapshoot. You can do all the right things but at the end of the day like someone once said its theirs to give...not yours to take. They can up and disappear rendering the work you did worthless.

 

[DrX]

wear a pair of glasses too appear non threatening and try to get a govt job also because they hire blacks......the private sector pretty much banned blacks bro unless u wanna wash windows or clean shyt from toliets

 

[Ohene]

wear a pair of glasses too appear non threatening and try to get a govt job also because they hire blacks......the private sector pretty much banned blacks bro unless u wanna wash windows or clean shyt from toliets

My glasses...doesnt get anymore non threatening

@Napoleon definitely am looking towards b-school in the future. I'm young and got a lot of time ahead of me. Thats the positive thing.

 

[Ohene]

I wouldn't whine on the internet.:thiscac:

word. i dont even wanna make this about me though. I know its a lot of other dudes going through this. Not just blacks eithers...theres whites going through it as well

 

[iBrowse]

Like I said breh I've practiced answers for hours and even webcammed myself doing so. It is what it is, time to go for broke and do it my way


These are the struggles of new graduates. I'm going through it so hopefully a lot of yall wont have to.

The crazy thing too is that a lot of what gets you the position is who you know...its a sad fact but a fact nonetheless. Networking is a bytch.

 

[Sweet James]

Reach out to this guy. He could probably help you...Michael Wekerle

I read an article a while back, where he helped put a black kid with the exact same qualifications as you through college. The kid is now working at Royal Bank

LinkedIn: http://ca.linkedin.com/pub/michael-wekerle/64/279/3a1

Article: http://www.thestar.com/life/2013/04...ucation_and_their_heritage_at_us_college.html

ATLANTA — Morehouse College, the only all-male, historically black college in America, has a legacy of privilege and excellence that can be intimidating to a young man from Jane and Finch.

Martin Luther King Jr., filmmaker Spike Lee and Atlanta’s first black mayor, Maynard Jackson, were Morehouse men. Actor Denzel Washington sent his son there. Students at the liberal arts college in Atlanta attend lectures wearing blazers, boat shoes and browline glasses. At weekly assemblies, they clasp hands and recite a 19th-century hymn about brotherhood.

But even among the Morehouse elite, Nathaniel Goulbourne belongs to a rarefied class. The 23-year-old Torontonian is just one of two Canadians attending the college, drawn by the promise of a black higher-education experience not offered back home.

“It took some time to get used to things here. The environment, the South, hushpuppies, grits,” says Goulbourne, a senior accounting student who grew up in the Jane-Finch corridor.

“But I see a lot of growth in myself. And I definitely represent. People on campus are like, ‘Yeah, that guy’s Canadian.’ ”

Toronto’s high-school dropout rate among African Canadians is 40 per cent. To drive that number down, the Toronto District School Board launched an Africentric elementary school in 2009. A black-focused high-school program debuted last September.

Lacking in Canada, however, is a post-secondary option tailored to black youths. It’s partly why Morehouse enticed Goulbourne.

“I thought a school like that would be the best incubator for my ideas,” he says, adding that he was frustrated by a dearth of “visible” African-Canadian icons, compared to America’s civil-rights luminaries and hip-hop moguls such as Sean Carter and Russell Simmons.

“I can’t dismiss people like Lincoln Alexander,” he says, “but I think many people would have to dig to find out about these figures.”

Statistics on the number of African-Canadians studying at historically black colleges and universities (HBCUs) are spotty. The New York-based Institute of International Education, a non-profit organization promoting educational and cultural exchange, says that “close to 50” Canadian visa students were enrolled in 28 HBCUs in the U.S. in 2011-2012. But many of the remaining 77 HBCUs didn’t provide data to the institute’s Open Doors report on international students.

Three Canadians have graduated from Morehouse since May 2000. That will rise to five by the end of this year, when Goulbourne graduates with another Ontarian, 22-year-old Jan-Michael Coke, a kinesiology student from Bolton.

Coke, a left guard for the Morehouse Maroon Tigers football team, loves the GTA’s multi-ethnic diversity. But living in the South gave him a keen sense of heritage.

“It’s like being in the heart of black history,” says Coke, whose family moved to Stone Mountain, Ga., a suburb famous for a granite Confederate memorial etched into the side of a mountain.

“You see that carving, and consider what the Confederate flag and army represented — oppression, hardship,” he says. “Then you go to school and walk through the dorm where Martin Luther King spent time, you go through the chapel and see the pictures of great black history icons. It’s mind blowing.”

It’s also hard not to be mindful of race on campus. Morehouse regularly invites speakers who lived through segregation. In class, students philosophize about cultural capital, racial justice and Afrocentrism.

But amid those weighty subjects, here’s another big idea to chew on: Why African-Canadian scholars might feel compelled to go to the U.S. for inspiration to become community leaders back home. What edge do historically black colleges offer?

“It’s a matter of engagement,” says George Dei, a University of Toronto sociology professor and advocate for black-focused education. “If people feel the environment is not inclusive, they can’t identify with the learning environment. There’s a desire to feel a sense of belonging. I think that’s what these students were getting there.”

Dei says the African presence in Canada isn’t as celebrated as it is in the U.S., and argues that Canada should make more visible the contributions, achievements and sacrifices of “role models in our backyard — not just famous people or people in the media.”

Goulbourne, whose GPA is 3.8, credits an “iron sharpens iron” code for pushing him to become the top accounting major in his class. The idea is that Morehouse men raise the bar for each other.

“The motto is: I got my brother’s back,” Coke adds, recalling a time when he overslept, missed a seminar and woke up to pounding at his door. His classmates were outside, demanding that he explain his absence.

Coke made the honour roll for the first time last year. It’s hard to keep his grades high, he says, but that’s not the only challenge: He says it’s a struggle to pay the annual $26,000 tuition, particularly when schools in Toronto look so affordable by comparison.

“My father knew I really want to stay down here, but it was getting rough. We talked about making me go to York University.”

With help from extended family in Canada, Coke collected enough money to stay at Morehouse. He aspires to open his own rehabilitation clinic.

Goulbourne’s college education was also made possible by donors.

He met legendary Bay Street trader Michael Wekerle through a Toronto outreach program years ago and delivered a 20-minute presentation laying out his plan to graduate from Morehouse, reinvent himself as a prominent African-Canadian businessman and return to mentor kids from his Jane-Finch neighbourhood.

Wekerle was impressed. He agreed to finance Goulbourne’s $40,000 a year tuition and housing costs — on the condition that Goulbourne eventually “pay it forward” by sending another underprivileged Toronto youth to Morehouse once he establishes himself as a businessman.

“He’s probably one of the more successful stories I’ve seen in my life,” Wekerle says. “I’ll be going to his graduation, which I understand President Obama will be attending.”

Expectations for Goulbourne to make a positive noise are high, indeed immense.

That pressure was made ever more acute on a Tuesday morning last month when Goulbourne’s brother texted him with the tragic news that St. Aubyn Rodney, a 15-year-old with whom Goulbourne spent time at a Jane and Finch basketball program, had been shot in the stomach and killed.

“I went outside my class, crying,” Goulbourne says. “This was one of my little guys. I was talking to my brother and he just said, ‘Yo it’s crazy, but that’s why you’re over there. Kids are falling through the cracks. You just gotta work harder.’ ”

Goulbourne will return to Toronto in May for a four-month BMO investment-banking internship. He’s amped for a homecoming, he says. He’s excited to see the friends he used to hoop with at the Driftwood Community Centre, to smell Jamaican jerk chicken, to hear reggae on the local radio again. Most of all, he’s eager to connect again with neighbourhood kids and present himself as the kind of African-Canadian success story he yearned to meet when he was growing up.

“It’s interesting because I almost feel uneasy when I come home. I see the growth in myself, but I see that everything is exactly the same at home,” he says. “Here I am, about to graduate from Morehouse, and I’m like, I really have this calling to go back home. I want to change things, give someone the same opportunities I had. That’s what it’s always been about.”

Worth a shot:

 

[iBrowse]

Reach out to this guy. He could probably help you...Michael Wekerle

I read an article a while back, where he helped put a black kid with the exact same qualifications as you through college. The kid is now working at Royal Bank

LinkedIn: http://ca.linkedin.com/pub/michael-wekerle/64/279/3a1





Worth a shot:

“The motto is: I got my brother’s back,” Coke adds, recalling a time when he overslept, missed a seminar and woke up to pounding at his door. His classmates were outside, demanding that he explain his absence.

community

 

[s3ven_LvLs]

meanwhile its nikkas I know up on bank wire transfer and check scams, selling drugs, driving lexuses, living in downtown toronto and getting the finest p*ssy.

If somebody told you life was fair they lied to ya .

Whats crazy is when you have folks from school that look up to you getting on or trying to big you up while you pale in the dust.

Like, "damn, what does this asian/white dude have over me? I used to tutor him in Intro to Finance. "
Like, "damn, my contemporaries see it in me...why cant the employers. "

Bruh I know your struggle. Going through the same type stuff right now. Graduated in may with a biology degree 3.1 gpa (this is ok you should really aim for 3.5 or higher if you are biology major). Anyways, have not had a job since march. I am going to dental school but I got to take the DAT again and really wished I had just a regular routine job like a grocery store or waiter to save up and pay for the app process. Its a stagnant time right now but I got the connections to get into my school of choice I just need to come up with the right score.

Also, I somewhat get tired of explaining to people why I am not in dental school yet. Especially, since I was tutoring folks in organic chemistry (which is the weed-out class for healthcare professionals.) Its life though I can't complain at least I gotta a firm position and a direction.

 

[Thatrogueassdiaz]

Lord knows.

I've prepared for hours for some of these jawns.
I've webcammed myself practicing answers
Lord knows I'm fresher than a muhh when I walk into the room
I'm tired of shaving my beard
I've left interviews feeling and knowing that it couldnt have possibly went any better. Didnt make the final round
I've been in interviews where I'm in a suit talking to people in jeans and an american eagle polo...not even making eye contact with me
I've left interviews feeling like it coulda gone better...but this job I have now was one of them.

I am clueless...and too broke/prideful/cynical to even pay for one of them coaches.

What r u interviewing for?

 

[Ohene]

Reach out to this guy. He could probably help you...Michael Wekerle

I read an article a while back, where he helped put a black kid with the exact same qualifications as you through college. The kid is now working at Royal Bank

LinkedIn: http://ca.linkedin.com/pub/michael-wekerle/64/279/3a1





Worth a shot:

thats a great story
if i'm keeping it real my morale is too low for any of this shyt right now though

What r u interviewing for?

mainly accounting/finance positions at your typical billion $ corps