What career is suited with my background?
I've been having a tough time really finding any job that fits my background. I have experience working in corporate social responsibility and marketing at F500 technology companies. I've undergone extensive in classroom excel training. I went to a top 20 school. I have a 3.5 GPA double majored with a health field and environmental economics.
I tried my stint at finance 2 years ago, but I got killed in the interviews. My dad works in wealth management, so I was pretty decent on technicals. I couldn't nail the behavioral on why "finance". I was chosen as an alternate on basically every final round interview.This is why I ended up with a marketing gig at a F500 b/c I didn't want to risk no internship.
With my majors, I decided to do a corporate social responsibility gig the following summer to get more industry experience in health/ environmental issues. It didn't end up being too fruitful and the team wasn't even hiring full time an entry level position (they didn't even know interns were supposed to be hired full time!).
Now I'm going out on job interviews for consulting, healthcare consulting, biopharmaceutical consulting and all I keep getting asked is technical questions/ why I didn't intern in consulting earlier. The technical questions usually ask about coding experience. Mind you, I've taken a lot of quantitative courses (microeconomics, business stats, bio stats, industrial organization, epidemiology, calculus and a bunch of other econ courses). My most technical course was geographic information systems and I worked with raster/ vector data to solve a consulting problem. Most interviewers have no idea what it is, so it's hard to explain.
Due to my majors, it seems like most interviewers gloss over the fact that I've taken a bunch of economics courses (just applied to natural resources.) I get the feeling the "environmental" in front of it basically means I didn't study economics.
I was wondering if there's any type of jobs I'm "missing" and how can I improve on what I have so far.
