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In this episode, Monkey Mentor 1 shares with us his path to landing a job and implementation

consulting from a non-target with a low GPA. Enjoy.

All right. Monkey Mentor 1. Thank you so much for joining us today.

How's it going? Pretty good. Pretty good. Staying busy. So if you could just start off giving the listeners a little bit of background about kind of what you've been up to in the last year, and that'd be great.

So just to give you a brief background of myself, I am a recent grad.

I graduated in May 2018.

I come from a non-target school, low GPA. So I was below 3.2 and I am now implementation slash tech consultant, associate consultant,

at a boutique firm.

Great.

Can you tell me a little bit about the recruiting and what it was

like coming out from a non-target with a low GPA? Were you just completely striking out in

interviews? Did you land some interviews? Did you have to go about it a special way? Yeah. So my first line of, you know, reaching out for recruiting wasn't just, you know, leveraging

my connections, which is probably what I should have gone to first.

My first effort was shameless, lengthy, and cold emails.

I did this mainly to build relationships as I realized early on in the process, just asking for references wasn't successful.

So this meant, you know, getting on phone calls, grabbing coffee, actually building a relationship over the course of a few months.

And I actually, I ended up doing this

pretty late. I went to a school that had an entrepreneurship program. And I will say I got

suckered into entrepreneurship. You dabbled. Yeah, entrepreneurship is certainly something that's super sexy and really easy to market, especially

for schools nowadays.

And I felt like I was sort of lured into the sexiness of entrepreneurship.

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