I did not find an intern. The reasons are: first, my background are international trading(import, export) and IT. In Canada, international trading is not a career path at all, and for the IT part, almost none IT companies recruited intern from Ivey this year. The majority of intern positions at Ivey this year are finance, consulting and a few marketing jobs, plus many non profit which I do not even consider as qualified intern positions for MBA students. Oh, the other reason might be marks, since Ivey's system, very very few chinese students can get good marks (class participation is worth at least 40-50%, and I might argue that this portion is kind of biased). Many say that marks are not important, but I think it is, especially as a student, a Chinese student. If you cannot get better marks than local students, what else do you have? For 2006 graduate, native students are doing much better, as far as I heard, many of them got job offers. But for Chinese students, things are different. And that again proves that marks are important. Because in Ivey, Chinese students are at the bottom marks. Of course, language would be another problem, if you get the interview opportunities. But if your marks are not good enough, you probably cannot even get interviews. Think as the employers going to the campus, well the background, most of the students are similar or at the same level, (if you really have solid, outstanding background, you might not go back to school, or you might go to top ones), then marks become an important judgement, since that reflects the level you are when you compete with other students in the same school at the same time. |