Well, my internship got cancelled and I'm gonna be working as a Seasonal Warehouse for a large American multinational food and snack company. I'm going into my 4th year and was wondering how I can spin warehouse experience to land a decent gig in MO or FO.
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Sorry to hear about the internship, tough break.
I worked full time in a warehouse for 2.5 years of college. During a few MO interviews (non-target OCR) I was able to use some variation of the following talking points:
FO is quite a bit more challenging and the angle would be more along the lines of “knowing for sure you never want to go back to a warehouse.” I suppose you could also pull the industry insights card (i.e. If you want to be a healthcare banker and you are working in a medical supplies warehouse). Also, pray you can meet a senior banker with a blue collar background who respects the grit.
Good luck
I can definitely see the transferrable skills between the two positions now. Thanks for the quick and insightful reply!
bump
I would bring it up in the interview as a "respond to failure or challenge" type of thing if you did in fact respond to it in a way that challenged your personal growth, but not put it on the resume--seems like too cheap a move.
Disagree on not putting the experience on resume. I think people would rather see that he spent the summer doing something other than watching netflix and jacking off to full-time IB job postings on LinkedIn.
Might have read wrongly, I thought he meant the cancelled internship, as in "INTERNSHIP - WAS ACCEPTED FOR SUMMER PROGRAM WITH XYZ DUTIES BUT GOT CANCELLED DUE TO COVID19". I would definitely put the warehouse internship.
I’d put both, this is exceptional circumstances, shows that he had something good planned and figured a backup.
I definitely had a question about this myself. In the event my internship gets cancelled, and I had a solid firm lined up, would it not add some credibility to my resume if I have it on there, at the time of full time recruiting?
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