While this might be a fact of life for undergraduates, a new method of entry awaits. Alumni contacts can take you around the lines, past the personnel screening departments and straight to hiring managers who want to meet you. This is legal, ethical and aboveboard. It's the way things are done in the real world. It's all in who you know.
Alumni are part of a lifelong members-only club.
You're about to become a member. The members-only entrance will be open for you almost anywhere you can think of. Starting Above the Bottom Laura MacLennan was an English major at Massachusetts's Amherst College. Her first post-college job was as an account executive at an ad agency in New York City. When asked how she worked her way up to that position in the highly competitive field of advertising, she says she didn't.