Career Guidance - All questions answered! Vol: I'm tired of the negativity

With all the constant negativity surrounding the job market, I'd love to help anyone that's willing to try.

I'm by no means satisfied with my career, yet, but I would like to help people with resumes/job searching/skill honing, and pretty much anything career related.

As for my background, I have BS in Business Administration and General Engineering. I graduated with a 3.2 GPA (not that impressive), but I've landed a full-time job right out of college, working as a consultant for a big firm, and will be moving to a new company in June as an Operations Lead.


I want to help with anything, so post here with a question you think many can benefit from, pm me if you don't want to share.

Perfect! Industrial Engineering is the closest to what I'm doing, working with manufacturing sites and what not, can you give me more info on what companies you're looking at?

What job are you talking about? But either way, both full-time positions were landed completely on my own, no connections involved at all.

Haha, right on! And have you ever heard of Razorfish or Digitas?

So if you want to get a job in a Consulting firm, get ready for long hours, honestly, but there's a good amount of traveling and freedom.

Look at Accenture (always hiring), PWC, Deloitte, Boston, Cognizant, E&Y, KPMG, but you already know about the accounting firms.

Do you want to stay accounting, or are you willing to change industries. Currently, my client is a HUGE telecom player, and telecom is booming right now.

PS. most of these firms, especially Accenture don't care which major you are.

So you want to work with warehousing? Are you still in school? do you have a concentration? (Supply-chain, procurement, aggragate planning, operations, quality, etc.)

Try Accenture, and Deloitte for sure. They both have Technology Consultant positions. Excelacom is a small firm, that is getting larger. Also, have your tried working for the gov't, the navy does have positions for people aren't part of the armed forces, as electrical engineers. I know in Philadelphia, they do, down by our Naval Yard.

Let me know if this helps or not.

In August, when I was working for my current position, I applied to over 40 different positions, some I heard from, some I didn't. And that's ok, you just gotta persevere. It doesn't hurt to apply right?

Have you applied anywhere yet? I would suggest the obvious, GS, BR, Barclays (Big firms), do you know of any smaller local firms? In philadelphia, we have SIG and Turner Investments, both relatively large institutions.

Do you have a high GPA? Any experience?

Absolutely, they def. would. Besides what I listed already, I know JNJ has a FLDP, so does Lockheed Martin. With that being I know there are hundreds of companies that have something similar (2 years of work, rotating a couple of times in various roles).

What industry?