Episode 82
How To Convert Career Fairs/Networking Events into Job Interview-Generating Machines - w/ Hrohaan
In this episode I talk with Hrohaan Malhotra, a Data Scientist at Wells Fargo who actually landed his role through a career fair. Hrohaan rewired the usual career-fair playbook: he didn’t show up to collect business cards — he showed up to build one great, memorable interaction.
Who this is for
- You are trying to get hired without sounding like everybody else in the pile.
- You would rather hear Hrohaan's version while the mess is still fresh than get another polished hindsight sermon.
Key takeaways
- Convert Career Fairs/Networking Events into Job Interview-Generating Machines - w/ Hrohaan
- Hrohaan rewired the usual career-fair playbook: he didn’t show up to collect business cards — he showed up to build one great, memorable interaction.
- got his job through a career fair. So I think you'll find it rather ironic when he'll share with us today why one's...
- be optimizing for something completely different. He takes us through how to craft the perfect elevator pitch, dealing...
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You and I are probably in agreement that the optimal outcome from attending a career fair is an interview call back. But what if I told you that you're actually setting yourself up for failure
actually setting yourself up for failure by hoping and optimizing for this outcome? outcome? For every career fair success criteria was am I able to connect with a few new people on LinkedIn?
people on LinkedIn? I'm Naman Pande. This is the Ready Set Do podcast and in this episode my guest is Rohan Malotra. Rohan is a data scientist at Wells Fargo who actually got his job through a career fair. So I
got his job through a career fair. So I think you'll find it rather ironic when he'll share with us today why one's game plan for any career fair should actually be optimizing for something completely
be optimizing for something completely different. He takes us through how to craft the perfect elevator pitch, dealing with clearly uninterested recruiters and also how you can actually
Show notes
In this episode I talk with Hrohaan Malhotra, a Data Scientist at Wells Fargo who actually landed his role through a career fair. Hrohaan rewired the usual career-fair playbook: he didn’t show up to collect business cards — he showed up to build one great, memorable interaction. That single idea changed everything. Here’s the distilled playbook we unpacked — practical, no-fluff, and proven.
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