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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Usually they have jobs waiting for them via their parent/relative’s company or connections.

It’s not just about the degree.  It’s about the legions of privileges that enabled you to attend such a school in the first place.  (And please none of the rags-to-riches stories - these obviously are not the norm.)[/quote]

That’s false. You need to meet more actual people not toil in imagination land.

What matters is the Career Services Department, Recruiting, Alumni network and job or grad school placement in your area of interest.

Only some of the wealthy Intl students openly go work at some big fmaily conglomerate in the homeland. But many families require their kids to work 10 years elsewhere to learn more and new things, then come to family company. [/quote]

It’s way less subtle than work for family business. It’s knowing some executive and recommending your son, and then you hire their daughter etc. it’s also knowing which careers and how to navigate them. [/quote]

Unclear how you ever got an internship or job in your teens or 20s.

Did you apply and do a few rounds of interviews?  And then you noticed that a bunch of hires were fast tracked into the training class or role by not interviewing, just by being someone’s kid? 
That’s what you saw happening? When and where was this?! [/quote]

DP.  My family isn’t rich, but my dad was president of a publicly traded company.  When I was interviewing for my first job after getting an MBA, my dad called someone at a company that I’d sent a resume to.  The hiring manager reported up through someone used to work for my dad, and that executive made sure I got an interview.  I only found that out much later, and I was pretty disappointed to hear it.

I advanced pretty quickly there, but was occasionally mystified that some people I met were really hostile on fist meeting me.  I knew the company was a spin-off of my dad’s company, but didn’t know that he was deeply involved in its creation through IPO, so they all knew who my dad was and viewed me as having my job through nepotism, which turned out to be true. [/quote]

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