The point of this MBA, the point of the TWO year MBA, was to have a summer internship. This serves both the purpose of, well, making a little money, but also of doing something NEW, before going back to where I came from if no new opportunities present themselves.
Well, after just one round of interviews with Gas Natural Fenosa, the local gas and electric utility company, they have offered me a summer position! Not only am I not really interested in the job, I didn't even apply! The only reason they even interviewed me is because I checked the box on the career services website - I didn't even write a cover letter! I took the interview because I knew I needed interview practice. And, as an added bonus, the whole thing was going to be in Spanish! It definitely helped by ego to not only be complimented on my Spanish by the HR woman interviewing me, but to also actually receive a job offer from them. It was definitely attractive - staying in Barcelona for the summer, doing something I know I can easily do, and getting to practice my Spanish all summer. On the other hand, its doing basically almost exactly what I was doing before.
Now that I had this offer, though, I figured I could look into the other option that had been made available to me. My dad's friend started up and owns a company called Newspaper Direct, better known for its PressDisplay.com service. Apparently they basically power the online version of almost every published newspaper out there, and are launching an application for smartphones and stuff too. Apparently, their problem is that they have too many brands and a little bit of an "identity crisis" and I could work on their marketing team helping them with this re-branding strategy. Well, that sounds whole helluvalot cooler than designing processes for a utility, so, I think I'll take it!
Well, after just one round of interviews with Gas Natural Fenosa, the local gas and electric utility company, they have offered me a summer position! Not only am I not really interested in the job, I didn't even apply! The only reason they even interviewed me is because I checked the box on the career services website - I didn't even write a cover letter! I took the interview because I knew I needed interview practice. And, as an added bonus, the whole thing was going to be in Spanish! It definitely helped by ego to not only be complimented on my Spanish by the HR woman interviewing me, but to also actually receive a job offer from them. It was definitely attractive - staying in Barcelona for the summer, doing something I know I can easily do, and getting to practice my Spanish all summer. On the other hand, its doing basically almost exactly what I was doing before.
Now that I had this offer, though, I figured I could look into the other option that had been made available to me. My dad's friend started up and owns a company called Newspaper Direct, better known for its PressDisplay.com service. Apparently they basically power the online version of almost every published newspaper out there, and are launching an application for smartphones and stuff too. Apparently, their problem is that they have too many brands and a little bit of an "identity crisis" and I could work on their marketing team helping them with this re-branding strategy. Well, that sounds whole helluvalot cooler than designing processes for a utility, so, I think I'll take it!
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