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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Hi OP, I think your brother's wife could find a job here pretty easily.  For your brother, it sounds like he could easily get a Business Development Associate role at CEB, Advisory Board, or a similar place.  These places pay $30k-$45k/year and have kids straight out of school cold-call people to drum up business.  If you can put up with it long enough, you move into an Account Executive role.  Lots of young people in these jobs and they're pretty low-stress, so he can meet people and have a good time (on a budget, but still).  TONS of positions like this in the area.[/quote]

Good luck landing a job with Advisory Board without stellar credentials. They recruit from ivies and the like.[/quote]

This.  It's absurd the stuff people are recommending on here. Yes, sure people come to DC without jobs in their 20s. Yes, sure people get unpaid internships on capital hill and end up in a well placed lucrative career building off that. Yes sure people get jobs at the Advisory Board Company.  But those people are people who have been preparing their resumes for 8 years. You don' t just show up in DC with an associates degree or fourth tier college from rural CT with some low level job experience and get one of those jobs. [/quote]

Maybe 10-20 years ago, but certainly not today.  If you went to an Ivy League school and are sitting on the phone, cold-calling people for $30k at ABC, I'm surprised you passed through the Ivy admissions process at all.[/quote]

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