-: Really an MBA or a graduate degree is so much more
important today because there's so many students
that have undergraduate degrees,
and it's really difficult for an employer
because you need the right people.
The environment is changing and you need to have people
that have experience,
and so I interact with students all the time and I tell them
they need to get experience
because even just having a graduate degree
without any experience doesn't help anybody.
And I try to tell people,
"No one's gonna give you a job."
And they kind of look at me like,
"What do you mean, no one's gonna give me a job?"
You have to have something of value to offer somebody,
and so do internships, do free stuff.
I always tell kids,
"Take the crappy jobs because those are the jobs
"where you really learn something."
And a lot of times the expectations are low
because they don't think somebody's going to be able
to do that, but when you do it, you get recognized.
I get hundreds of resumes and try to figure out
what do I look at.
And try to some way have it stand out,
whether you include a video, whether you include a photo.
Talk about relevant experience.
Research the company and see what issues they're having
and include in your resume things that you've done
that are similar or ways that you think you can help
with a specific issue.
So try to be as specific as possible.
That would be one way to stand out.
I think the most important thing is you try to make contacts
and I have students all the time come to me and say,
"I need to get an internship or I need a relationship.
"Can you introduce me to people?"
And just that one introduction,
I know lots of people, and so I can make
a dozen introductions, and then of those people,
they can make another dozen introductions.
It's really that networking that's so important.
Don't sit back and wait.
Get out there and network, talk to people.
You'll be amazed what happens if you ask,
'cause people want to help.