Advice on boosting career despite mediocre credentials
So this is my situation:
Last year I graduated from a school on the lower end of the T50 with an econ B.A., a mediocre GPA (between 3.4-3.5), no econometrics experience and a couple of completely irrelevant internships. I currently have a job in New York at a well-known F500 financial services firm; unfortunately its a dead-end position in back-office compliance. It is also crushingly dull.
Despite my lackluster credentials I am a pretty smart guy and while I understand that I'm not going to be landing interviews for sweet gigs at top firms any time soon, I do aspire to something that offers more juice, more opportunity to build a professional skill-set, and that I'm not embarrassed to explain at parties, hopefully without having to leave New York City and break my recently extended lease. Unfortunately I have no real idea what to aim for or how to go about doing it. My first thought was just to begin applying for mid-tier consulting firms (which I take to be outfits like IBM or Deloitte), but that was just for lack of any better ideas. I'm not particularly fixated on any one company or field; my main goal is to escape my Office Space job for something that might actually help me develop professionally.
Figure out what you are interested in, then focus in on a particular area in the industry you want to be in, and network with alumni.. And non-alumni... network, network, network. If you don't know how you would go about networking or preparing for interviews then buy some of the guides that WSO has to offer. They are pretty good and concise.
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