The interview with F was very informative and helped us gain some very valuable but still only initial insights into the hiring process for student employers. Fred is a CEO and a serial entrepreneur that hires students and recent grads. The 2 most important points I pulled out from this interview was:
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Employee/Company Fit- The most important piece for Fred to hire any individual
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His process- He uses recruiters within his own company to look through resumes and cover letters- from there he will call about 10-30% of the students resumes that get through the recruiters
This is how the interview sized up compared to our hypootheses:
Hypotheses 1- N/A- he doesn’t do this step- recruiters do
Hypotheses 2- Yes- most resumes don’t show personality and they don’t take stock, or importance in the cover letter
Hypotheses 3- Half- Only cares about skills to get past the first set of screening for the resume process.
Hypotheses 4- No- Maybe in the interview but not until then.