Catapult Leaders: 10 Questions Black College Students Have About Getting a Job in Corporate America. Answered! Host Darryl L. Mobley with guest Dwain Celistan. Epi. 5
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10 Questions Black College Students Have About Getting a Job in Corporate America with host Darryl L. Mobley and guest Dwain Celistan
This Catapult Leaders podcast episode #5 is a blockbuster as it details executive recruiter Dwain Celistan's answers to “10 Questions Black College Students Have About Getting a Job in Corporate America.” This episode will help you get a fabulous job in Corporate America and succeed, and much more. Dwain answers host Darryl L. Mobley's questions about:
- What the best companies provide
- The importance of training
- What employers look for most, when they’re hiring for entry level jobs
- How he decided the industry he wanted to be in after graduation
- The one or two most impactful ‘things’ that helped him get that first great job
- What makes the first job out of college a good fit
- The mistakes he made when he was in college and looking for his first job
- The 1 or 2 things he would change about his preparation for the first job he took after college, if he could go back in time and change
- The importance of the geographic location of that first job
- The one big thing he wishes he had known when he started that first job out of college, that he did not know
- The one big mindset shift that he believes to be key to having a successful career in Corporate America
- How he dealt with being one of the very few Black managers in the company he joined
- plus, What he looks for when hiring a college graduate
- plus, The pros and the cons of your skin color
- plus, The 3 things college graduates must do as new employees on the job
- plus, What Dwain said that scared Darryl
- plus, How to stand out while on the job
- plus, What "on time" means
- plus, The importance of "preparation"
- plus, The shocking thing Dwain's first boss told him that he remembers to this day
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