Coming Soon: Speaking At Your School (If You’re in the Northeast US) and More

Ok this will be another comments/announcements post, but it won’t involve a trip to China, Singapore, or Korea (I know, I know, disappointing, right?). Let’s jump straight into things…

“Recruiting in a Down Market”: Trip to East Coast with Management Consulted

Kevin from Management Consulted and I will be traveling to the Northeast of the US next week (2nd week of February 2009) through the end of the month to speak at several schools there.

The topic of our presentation will be “Recruiting in a Down Market” – it’s something we’ve covered here a few times before, but with the worsening economy it’s increasingly on everyone’s mind.

Here are a few topics we’ll discuss:

Light-Speed Q&A: Sick Days, Marriage and Yerba Mate, Interviews, Military, Resumes, Financial Meltdown, Prestige and Public Speaking

In this week’s edition of Q&A (we’ve had Rapid-Fire, Lightning, 100-Meter Dash and now Light Speed… suggestions for new names are welcome), I once again compress as much information as possible into as few words as possible.

Surprisingly, this week we cover some questions that aren’t related to economic collapse / the end of investment banking as we know it / other end-is-nigh scenarios.

And we start with a question relevant to everyone from kindergartners to seasoned pros: the sick day. Oh, and marriage, which I suppose is less relevant to kindergartners.

Sick Days, Marriage & Yerba Mate

1. I recently had a cold and took a day off from work. Can you take sick days as an investment banker? Or do you have to come to the office even if you’re dying?