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I am not good at writing cover letters. I’m a writer for crying out loud but I don’t know how to market myself. I’m not overly modest, but I have a hard time saying that I can positively contribute to XYZ company with my limited knowledge and experience. Since I’m a career changer, I have the most to gain from the experience. I need to get better at spinning it so that it sounds like I’m “doing them a favor” by offering them my expertise.

I know that companies offer internships so that people like me CAN get experience, but it’s just a weird situation for me. I’ve never had to market myself. Usually I got recruited for a job because some of my skills showed up in a resume text search.

As for marketing myself in-person, I’m pretty good at that. I like talking to people. I like finding out what they do, what they like about their job and ultimately what they’re looking for in an employee. It isn’t always that simple, but I can smile and get across who I am in person or even over the phone better than I can on paper.

I’m not stressing about this too much. I have an appointment tomorrow with someone at our career center to look over my cover letter and give me tips on how to market myself. I am applying for a really cool internship and I want everything to be as perfect as possible. I’m not worried about it, but getting another pair of eyes to look over my work will put my mind at ease.

In other news, I’ve been busy. One of my classmates put it nicely: the level of work isn’t harder, but the level of team projects has skyrocketed. It’s true. I’ve had team meetings every day this week except for Wed and that’s because we didn’t have class on Wednesday. I had OTHER meetings, but no sanctioned, official team meetings.

Midterms start on Monday and I’ll be spending all weekend doing finance practice problems and reviewing the IS-LM model for macroeconomics. A long weekend of studying is fine. The kicker is the Strategy paper my team has to turn in in a week. I’m not even going to think about it right now.

In other other news, I’ve been talking to fellow classmates about starting a student-led MBA blogging initiative. Apparently, something is in the works already but I want to add my thoughts as well. I think it is a great idea and would really help get the word out about the program. Visiting a school and talking to the administration is one thing. Reading what the students are actually doing is extremely helpful in terms of choosing a program. I hope this initiative gets up and running before the end of the year. Nerdy MBA bloggers unite!