Riz’s Rotman Blog

… So… I guess I’ll post something.

I had a mock interview with IBM today. It actually went very well. The woman interviewing me told me I did great except I should:

1. Play up some of my other interests some more because she found them very interesting.
2. Find a nice way to say “I left my previous job because the opportunities to advance were limited.” I think that is “niced up.” I probably said something different in the interview but I can’t remember.

If you hadn’t guessed, the job searching period has arrived. It’s actually starting to eat a lot of my time despite my decision to avoid info sessions (usually 2 a day) like the plague and only to apply to jobs that I’m very serious about—so far that’s only 4 jobs. Hopefully this strategy will allow me to get a job and keep my sanity/GPA.
Speaking of GPA, marks came out. I’m happy.

I guess I’ll also take this procrastination period to provide my initial impressions of the classes this quarter:

Biz finance - YIKES! The proff. just threw a bunch of stuff up on the wall yesterday and I had no idea what he was talking about. He was apparently giving a review. This does not bode well. Seriously though, I have no idea what to say about this class yet. More details when I can do the whole EBITDA-depreciation(1-tax rate)-Investments thing.

Strategy – This could go either way. In the first-half we focused on deciding on a strategy. In this half we’re focusing on how to implement that strategy. I think that implementation is the more important (and far more difficult) part of strategy. It should be interesting to learn though.

Managing Customer Value - I’m not quite sure what this course is about yet. It seems to be a little bit of promotions, a little bit finance, and a lot of bit of work. So far we’ve only touched on how to use “customer value” to value a company with no profit.

Managerial Accounting – This course seems like it’s all about cost allocation. Stimulating!

Macro Economics - I almost fell asleep during the first class. ’nuff said.

Well, that’s what I think about the classes after the first session. The information I provided isn’t very valuable. Meh… it’s my blog and I’ll waste bytes if I want to, bytes if I want to, bytes if I want to…

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