Hire Me
This past week was definitely very busy. I'm a vice president in the Engineering Student Council and this past Wednesday we held the Spring Career Fair. If you've never run a career fair, I can assure you that it's very difficult. We had about 50 companies in attendance and I think at least 1000 students passed through. My fiancée was one of the coordinators so congrats to her on our most successful career fair yet.
This is a historical moment… the first real picture of me on this website. Now back to the topic…
I'm still looking for an internship, so this week was really important. If I stay in the U.S., I would definitely want to work for Intel, since they are all about my concentration (digital circuit design with a splash of analog here and there). Their corporate culture is nice too, and if I could work my way up to a permanent assignment in Israel, I would be really happy. Unfortunately I haven't had an interview with Intel yet, so I'll have to keep digging.
I did have an interview with Verizon Thursday morning. I've done the interview thing enough times now that I wasn't nervous, and I think the whole thing went pretty well. One of the questions definitely surprised me though, it went along the lines of:
Tell me about a time you had to deal with the needs of the customer and how you did that.
This might not seem unusual on the surface but it was… I mean, how many customer oriented experiences have I had? 2, actually. At first I wasn't sure what to say but then I told the interviewer about last summer at GE Rail, which would actually be a good topic for another day. The whole interview was allright and I might even have a chance with Verizon, though they wouldn't be my first choice.
Plus, I'm still looking at options in Europe. I stopped by Cornell Career Services yesterday and asked about international internships. Turned out the lady in charge of international careers was in the room and she asked me what languages I speak. Before I could answer her, she said, "Please tell me you speak German!" I told her I'm in my second semester of German and she hinted that she had good news for me, but I won't know until my meeting with her next Wednesday morning.
Exciting, right? My real, real top goal is to work in Hungary, but I'll take what I can get for the summer. I would really like to see Germany, I have a great-grandfather who was German and a summer there sounds great. I'll just have to wait and see what comes my way.
And if you have a cool tech company and realize you are about to lose out on a hot candidate, feel free to contact me. Especially if you are in Europe. I'm still open to offers.
Update: this one is for Sam.
You wouldn't want to work in Europe if you love hamsters lol. Good luck on finding something - summer's in mainland Europe are nice. Holland is really nice too for the summer along with good ole UK. Just a question, what is that bloke holding in the second photograph, it concerns me slightly
He has some paper in his hand, at an angle. The red is the edge of the table.
Reminds me of those kids' magazines with those pictures that said, "can you tell what this is" and everything was really blurry, enlarged, etc.
There are more pictures over at http://www.foxymcloud.com by the way.
My, what a strapping young lad you are. You are very good looking
Please, please no more public comments like that! How embarrassing!
Salude and good luck!!