The End of the SCP

We are finishing up our final SCP report during the next couple of days. I got back to Oxford on Sunday and have been meeting with the group daily, editing and polishing the 50-page document. In the end I think it will turn out well. We have a solid recommendation and the academic frameworks to support it.

After that's finished I'll be focusing on my job search. There are a few leads I'm still chasing but I need to spend more time applying to open positions. The problem I've run into with "networking" is that it only works if the people you talk to happen to have open positions. Particularly in this economy no one is going to randomly create a job. But those efforts may still pay off so I probably shouldn't discount them entirely. I spent most of July trying to work my way into a strategy position at American Express and I made some decent headway, but the company's poor earnings reports resulted in a handful of cancelled interviews for me. So in August I started to expand my search a bit, though I admittedly didn't look quite as hard as I will be looking after the end of summer. It seemed that many people were out of town in August and I'm hoping they'll be back after Labor Day.

The last bit of the MBA is the week-long Capstone session in mid-September. It's an intensive week of group-work and scenario analysis...I think...I need to read up on everything we have to do that week. Following its completion there is the last black tie dinner and then an end-of-course ceremony. My parents and hopefully Casey (who is also job-searching) will be in town for those events. Audra and her husband are making the trip from Houston for the end-of-course ceremony. I haven't seen them since their wedding last September so I'm really looking forward to their visit. The next couple of weeks will be fun.