Informational Interview Paper

For the informational interview I contacted a family friend Rebecca Gray Detling who is an executive sales manager with ICH Global LLC. I first just started off asking Rebecca on what she majored in college, how it prepared her for her job, what courses were the most valuable, and what class she wished she would have taken while in school. While in college Rebecca majored in physical therapy and had a minor in finance because she knew she wanted a future in the business field while helping out people in the medical field. Once out of college though she said that the most valuable class she took was a little of every class because with a career in the medical field, sales, and finance not one class is better than the other but a little of each class was extremely valuable. …show more content…
One shocking thing that we talked about was that she thought that college was not necessarily the best option for someone wanting to become an analyst. She said that if someone right out of school was applying for a job and so was someone with no college but had years of consulting under their belt she wouldn’t take the college graduate because real world work was way more important in her field. College students with no internships don’t have what most business companies are looking for. So I then asked her what does a college student with no internship background need to help get a job and she highly recommended networking on LinkedIn with people in their field of study and want to contact them asking if they could job