A while ago, on October 31st, I decided to attend an On-Campus Recruitment workshop under the now-revealed-to-be false assumption that “on-campus” specifically meant that the workshop was for ordinary part-time jobs and that, by attending, I’d be eligible to get a job, which I did and do somewhat desperately need in order to prevent myself from falling prey to the ever-increasingly-likely chance that I shall become the bum I know I am most likely to be and to be able to raise the social status I have within my family from “the guy who mooches off them” to “the guy who’s less likely to mooch off them.”
So, yeah, going to the workshop then would have been somewhat a waste of time, if not for the additional information covered within the presentation. For example, one of my biggest questions regarding job hunting was covered: whether it would be overkill to send a thank you email after a job interview or a job fair or whatever else to the person to whom I’d spoken, so as to better my minuscule chance of getting a response back; and the answer to that question is that, no, sending a thank you email is not overkill, but rather the recommended action to undertake a day after an event.
To speak with respect to how this workshop will help me with my career path, I gained interview insight, was reminded of some helpful interview tips, and confirmed the best amount of time to be early to an interview, 15–20 minutes.
