What universities stand out for DC hiring managers?

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Anonymous wrote:In STEM, I do not care which university. I care deeply about which degree you have (hint: BS in X is preferred over a BA in X) and I care which upper-level electives you took. Those things drive skills and knowledge, which are the 2 things we seek.

I work in economics (fed) and BA vs BS in undergrad is meaningless. Some universities are better than others, for sure

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I hire a lot is engineers and computer science majors, math, stats, and economics.

Im also part of an angel investment group never would we invest in any companies whose CEOs are MAGA or religious.

I will not hire from small religious colleges or places like Liberty or Hillsdale.

I will hire students who did two years at a community college and then transferred to a four year.

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Anonymous wrote:In STEM, I do not care which university. I care deeply about which degree you have (hint: BS in X is preferred over a BA in X) and I care which upper-level electives you took. Those things drive skills and knowledge, which are the 2 things we seek.

I work in economics (fed) and BA vs BS in undergrad is meaningless. Some universities are better than others, for sure

Although, TBF, i don’t care much about undergrad.

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Anonymous wrote:Intelligence community has a soft spot for Yale and ND. But skills have to be there.

North Dakota?

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Most jobs don’t require geniuses. We are looking for people who are competent, can deal with people, and will do what you ask them on time and with good grace. That may sound simple, but is much rarer than it sounds.

The better the school, the more likely they will be able to do the job competently. But the chance of them being highly strung or otherwi Flakey or a flight risk also goes up.

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Anonymous wrote:Hiring manager in private sector. School doesn’t matter like it used to. At all. People need to understand that when they are thinking of spending 400k on undergrad

Flat false. And I run hiring in the private sector.

Agree. Private sector. We recruit at specific schools and then look elsewhere if not full. We use recent grads from those schools to recruit: we currently have recruiters for Duke and 7 of the 8 ivies and Georgetown. We hire many different majors from these schools. We have had a lot of success from them so that is where we look. We hired less this year and filled all spots with recruiting at these schools

Can you share what industry?

Broadly, consulting for businesses across the globe. Within that, financial consulting as well as HR and marketing consulting, and tech /innovation consulting.

DP who hires for finance and tech consulting within fortune 500. School name does not matter. 1:1 interview and 4:1 interview panel and in some cases testing for excel modeling or coding. Typically ignore ivy resumes became the ones we have demand higher pay for the same work and leave after a year or two.

Your job is like 8th tier for people wanting to do consulting

Lol I see the 20 year old troll showed up at 18:03, 18:09, and 18:10. Not even a middling trolling effort. Sad.

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Anonymous wrote:Hiring manager in private sector. School doesn’t matter like it used to. At all. People need to understand that when they are thinking of spending 400k on undergrad

Thank goodness.
Parent of an instate university student.

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At my org, for engineers, we don’t care what school, mostly flagships, and then some elite and some UMBC similar schools. For non-engineers that aren’t admin support, school matters way more, probably 60% elite and 40% flagships. For number of applicants, we get far fewer for our engineering positions vs. our business operations positions. Like 10-20% the number of applicants.

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Ivies save for brown and dartmouth, Duke, Hopkins, MIT, Stanford.

Private equity firm.

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Internships and work history matter.

Schools aren’t as important these days. Having said that, the bias I see in my DC-based office is this: left leaning supervisors won’t interview from SEC or southern schools and right leaning supervisors won’t touch the lefty schools. Moreover, supervisors from ivies or certain prestigious schools shun state schools while those of us who went to state schools are sometimes put off by the ivies. And everyone loves seeing applicants from their Alma mater.

UMD used to be popular at my company but not anymore. Why? The school got harder to get into and most supervisors who went there now have a kid or relative who was turned away despite having good grades. Screw you, UMCP.

I recently led a few recruiting efforts and reached out to HR for input following their initial screening. They flagged two very strong applicants from SEC/southern schools who they said other supervisors hadn’t bothered to interview…because they were turned off by the red state thing. I interviewed them and thought they were both impressive. Ftr, I’m a big lefty but I was disturbed by the obvious bias of my colleagues.

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Anonymous wrote:Hiring manager in private sector. School doesn’t matter like it used to. At all. People need to understand that when they are thinking of spending 400k on undergrad

Flat false. And I run hiring in the private sector.

Agree. Private sector. We recruit at specific schools and then look elsewhere if not full. We use recent grads from those schools to recruit: we currently have recruiters for Duke and 7 of the 8 ivies and Georgetown. We hire many different majors from these schools. We have had a lot of success from them so that is where we look. We hired less this year and filled all spots with recruiting at these schools

It should be "fewer" not "less".

Nope, " less" is actually correct here. Maybe don't correct people if you don!t actually know what you are talking about.

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Anonymous wrote:I really don't think it matters. Most of the people in my neighborhood who have good UMC gov con jobs went to VA Tech or Penn State. I am completely serious.

If you want to be a contractor, the biggest leg up is a service academy followed by just being an officer with a clearance followed by anywhere with a clearance

I’m the person you quoted and that’s not my experience at all. Graduate college, get an entry level job in HR, IT, Sales, Finance/Accounting, etc. Marry someone similar and live the good life by your early 30’s. Clearance is nice, but many of these places will just do it for you after hiring.

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You know what matters most? Knowing someone who can help you get your first job.

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Anonymous wrote:You know what matters most? Knowing someone who can help you get your first job.

And I don’t mean someone “important.” I mean, your neighbor Jim who has known you your whole life works at Raytheon (or whatever) and can ask a favor to get you started out.

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Anonymous wrote:Internships and work history matter.

Schools aren’t as important these days. Having said that, the bias I see in my DC-based office is this: left leaning supervisors won’t interview from SEC or southern schools and right leaning supervisors won’t touch the lefty schools. Moreover, supervisors from ivies or certain prestigious schools shun state schools while those of us who went to state schools are sometimes put off by the ivies. And everyone loves seeing applicants from their Alma mater.

UMD used to be popular at my company but not anymore. Why? The school got harder to get into and most supervisors who went there now have a kid or relative who was turned away despite having good grades. Screw you, UMCP.

I recently led a few recruiting efforts and reached out to HR for input following their initial screening. They flagged two very strong applicants from SEC/southern schools who they said other supervisors hadn’t bothered to interview…because they were turned off by the red state thing. I interviewed them and thought they were both impressive. Ftr, I’m a big lefty but I was disturbed by the obvious bias of my colleagues.

I don’t hire, but I can absolutely see this happening. Any little thing on the resume can send it into either pile.