the air

Where do I begin? The past week has been an extremely hectic week. Last Wednesday was an internship fair at Northern Illinois University and I decided to take my pompous ass over there to try my luck. I visited eight different booths hosting different companies. All of them told me that they will get back to me in about a month or so once they have visited other campuses and compiled a list of desirable candidates. However, one company seemed to have particular interest in me. Haldex Corporation talked to me for about 20 minutes, which seemed like an eternity to me. For those of you who don’t know, at a job fair, you generally only talk to the recruiter for approximately five minutes and hardly more than ten minutes. Near the end of my conversation with Haldex, they informed me that I sounded like the perfect candidate for them. I did not really pay too much attention to that comment.

Last Friday morning at 8:30 AM, I got a call from the HR Specialist at Haldex who wanted me to come to the headquarters and meet with the Product Utilization Team (PUT). I set up the interview for noon on Wednesday, February 21, 2007, which is tomorrow. I am actually sort of nervous, but at the same time, I am going in with the attitude that I have nothing to lose because I really don’t have anything to lose. I am hoping that this interview will lead to an internship this summer with Haldex. For the past couple of days, I have been simply researching on the company and trying to learn as much as I can about the company. So wish me luck for tomorrow’s interview.

Today there was another job fair at the Engineering Building. This time, all the companies were looking for engineers interested in internships and full-time jobs. I can’t put my finger on it, but I simply did not enjoy the fair today. It seemed like the recruiters themselves were not too enthusiastic about the fair itself. Since I was up late last night working on an assignment (which is why I could not make a post yesterday), I literally had no time to research any of the companies that visited the campus today. Again, I decided to go in and “wing” the entire session and hope to come out on top. To my surprise, I only visited two companies and both seemed to have a genuine interest in me. One company, Caterpillar, made a few notes on my resume that seemed to indicate that they wanted to pursue me as a possible candidate, even though they mentioned they have limited openings for the summer internship session. Hopefully it leads to something.

What a week it has been and I’ll be sure to post my interview experience with Haldex tomorrow. Gotta love progress!

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