Every professional needs business cards to build relationships and develop their personal network. And these personal cards are essential for college students and recent graduates, too!
I found out just how important these personal cards can be during my senior year at Duke. I was on a Southwest Airlines flight from San José to Austin, and I just happened to be sitting next to the Vice President of Mergers & Acquisitions at Google! Needless to say, I was star-struck! This was an amazing opportunity for anyone looking for a job.
So, I pulled myself together enough to introduce myself, and we ended up having a great chat. When we landed, he said to me “I really enjoyed talking with you and would like to keep in touch – do you have a card?”
I was like a deer caught in headlights! I didn’t know what to say. Of course I didn’t have a card! I was only a senior in college!
So, I wrote down my name and number on one of those square airline napkins and never heard from him again. And I don’t blame him – I wouldn’t have contacted me either!
That’s when I came up with the idea for my Personal Networking Cards. They’re like business cards, only for college students and recent graduates. It’s the perfect way to present yourself as a professional even though you’re still looking for a job.
That’s why you should have my Personal Networking Cards – to ensure you don’t ever find yourself in a situation like mine!
You’re probably wondering – who in the world is this Résumé Girl? So let me introduce myself …
My name is Lauren Hasson and I help college students and recent graduates all over the nation land their dream job or internship!
And I not only absolutely love what I do, but also really enjoy dishing-out advice on all things career and internship search-related!
I’m a self-described read-a-holic (I read all the college career advice books so that you don’t have to!) and I’m an avid writer. In the rest of my spare time, I collect and watch “who-done-it” movies and follow Duke basketball – Go Blue Devils!
So why Duke basketball? Well, I also happen to have graduated Phi Beta Kappa and Magna Cum Laude from Duke with a triple major in Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, and Economics.
After I graduated, I became an investment banker with Morgan Stanley and literally didn’t sleep for an entire year! Eventually the nights spent napping in my small cubicle got old so I packed-up my bags and moved back to Texas (I grew-up in Austin) to become the Lead Researcher at one of the world’s largest hedge funds.
But no matter how hard I tried to like my job – I just couldn’t. So in 2006 I said sayonara to my day job and signed-on to help college students and recent graduates pursue their dreams full-time.
And I couldn’t be happier!