In this Andie Coller piece in Politico, it's refreshing to see the blend of tongue-in-cheek bribery suggestions with good, basic, what makes sense to get hired advice. Jim Messina is the director of personnel for the Obama transition team and he says,“I believe that politics is truly a merit-based world,” he told High Country News magazine in August. “If you work hard and you’re honest — and you keep winning — you’ll get to rise. [In my early political jobs,] I was the kid who was the first in the office and the last to leave. And it’s still kind of true. ... I’ve been chief of staff to three famous members of Congress and I work for a fourth, and when [each] hired me, I don’t think any of them even asked me where I went to school — they just asked me what I had done, and I love that.”
That doesn't help us for admissions, but it does help with regards to what we tell students to get out of their experiences: EXPERIENCE! A light-weight internship at a big name won't cut it here. Name-dropping and enthusiasm won't cut it, but a record of results will.
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