Sleepless in Seattle: Network,
Network, Network
How time flies… I’m in my 5th
week of the internship and I try to network as much as possible. I Network with
people in my team, in my division, in my company and with other MBA’s. Most of
the network is done through lunch meetings and coffee breaks – you probably
know what I’m talking about. Although it is pretty easy to stay in my room, crunching
presentations and data to provide some sort of useful output to my group I
prefer to fill-up my day with meetings – and my nights with the crunching and
reading and processing the data.
My networking can be divided into 3
types. The first is the most important one – the internal division network. I
am engaging in meetings and casual conversations with people from my own group and
division to learn about them and their day2day work. To understand how they
could help me with my project, what is it like to work with and around them and
just to enjoy the company of very smart and fun people. The second kind is the
future type – I try to meet with people from different divisions and different
roles in the company to understand how the big picture comes together, to see
the vision of other people in different positions around the company. The third
type is the MBA connection – I try to attend all the organized events that the
Microsoft recruiters sponsor and the unofficial ones also.
But more than everything I try to
manage time to be with my family. I haven’t seen them for 4 weeks and my entire
first MBA year was mainly around recruiting and networking, so the time I spent
with my wife and kids was pretty limited. I can’t say I have much more time now
but it is much better than before. So most of the days I try to be home around
19:00-20:00 be with my kids for couple of hours and back to some work around
23:00.
Till
next time,
Barak
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