The Michigan Daily - Friday, March 5, 2004 - 7 JOBS Continued from Page 1 Yet, in these second-round interviews, the job recruiters were not asking about Penna's goals or work experience. Instead they put his credentials to the test, giving him case studies or examinations asking him to solve marketing-strat- egy problems that the company might face. "Every interview is different. They'll give you case stud- ies and say, 'Here's a marketing problem, you have 40 min- utes to fix it. Solve the problem. I want you to think out loud.' It's very high stress," Penna said. One of the most difficult second interviews consisted of five back-to-back case studies, an hour and a half apiece. Vice presidents and managers who graduated from Harvard or top consulting firms like McKinsey & Company even stopped by to gauge his qualities. "You may have all these numbers (in a case study). If you don't have the right methodology you are out of work, you know.You have to prepare yourself." But Penna was prepared. He had already been scouting out which businesses he wanted to attack once October arrived, and he had secured interviews through contact- ing employers and using the Business School network. Penna immediately looked over resources on previous case studies over and over again, practicing and refining what his strategy would be once his interview came. "I made sure I looked at them rather rigorously, and once I got the methodology down, I was prepared. ... Once you have acquired all this knowledge, now it's time to prove yourself. Confidence is the key." Still, even with the most preparation and his confidence behind him, Penna couldn't win every chess game. -"Every time I go to an interview it's almost like 'You win some, you lose some.' That's the reality of it. Very few peo- ple can win all of them." But Penna won the interviews that counted the most and was offered a two-year job at Microsoft after he graduates. After his time at Microsoft, he plans to attend a top graduate school and to go and work for other top businesses. While business students may have to face high-stress case studies and tough competition, art students face a different, but equally challenging process. Major, who graduated last year, had a completely different job search. In fact she said she didn't even prepare for it. "I had no strategy whatsoever, I was just really getting into my job search and thinking like, 'Okay I need to get out of Michigan, I can't stand another winter."' Major's specialty is in metals, sculpting ceramics and creating jewelry like bracelets and necklaces. Like many other hopeful art students, Major hopes one day she can make a career selling her art. Normally, art students apply for a position with a company or try to have their work featured in an art show. Major said her works prob- ably wouldn't make her famous any time in the near future. She added that it is typical for artists to go through years of rejection before they can ever find a career selling their art. "I definitely heard painters saying that they dropped off all their (works) at galleries and got laughed at. You have to be good or different, and it's hard and the judging is very subjective. You could make something and one jerk says its great, and another jerk can say they don't like it." The economy doesn't affect the art industry much, because it's always tough to find a professional art job, Major said. So she hoped to find an interim position to give her opportunities to work on her skills and then maybe go off to graduate school. But during her time at the University, Major wasn't focusing on her future aspirations. Instead she focused on her passion, creating art. As a result she said she ignored the job search process until after gradua- tion, which was a big mistake. Naturally, she then rushed to newspaper advertise- ments and job-searching websites, looking for a teaching position or at an art institute creating ceramics for stu- dents or clients. She just desired to find something to accommodate her skills as an artist. But there were no easy solutions as looking for an available job position was nearly impossible. "What was mostly frustrating was going on the Web. Half of the time, when you look at postings, it is already taken and they just don't take it down." She also found that she couldn't even apply to most of the job openings available. Her job searching finally turned up a few open positions. Still that turned out to be just as wearisome. "I was looking for places all over the country, and there were four jobs. And I didn't get any of them." Three months of searching and still out of a job, she cringed thinking about other options like working at a jewelry store doing menial tasks just to pay the bills. She said it was looking to become a reality, until an old art professor told her of an opening at a Dartmouth College art workshop. She later applied and finally got a job. Major added that she never expected networking would actually find her a job. "Luck and making connections, that's probably some good advice, networking is just the only way I was able to get a job. ... This job sort of fell into my life, I don't know what I would have done if I hadn't got it." The job wasn't really what she thought she would ever be doing though. "Basically, students come in and make stuff at the workshop." One student recently came in to make his girlfriend an engagement ring. Although the job seems like something at a jewelry store and its only part-time, for Major it's all she could have hoped for because it gives her some time to make a few art pieces for herself. "It gives me the freedom to express myself.... 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