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Which of the following will you bid on: 1) Lunch with CEO 2) 4 Hour Career counselling with VP HR?

Qianglong

Qianglong

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This two option sounds interesting, which is to have lunch with the CEO or a 4 hour 1 on 1 career counselling session with the VP of HR.

Now the company I am doing internship with is a fortune 20 company so these two executives should be quite venerable.

I was thinking, maybe the 4 hour talk with the VP will provide me with some career insights, future career path and development etc since I am only a 21 year old kid doing an internship in this company.

Which one will you guys bid on?

 
neither of those sounds very exciting, but I would pick lunch with CEO. Maybe Golf with the CEO would be cooler. Something interactive..... HALO?!!??? 😕

^ How immature does this post look? It looks like a 13-year-old posted it.
 
lunch, because it's a free meal!!!! well not free, but at least you won't lose anything

the 4 hr with the VP will be a bunch of crap
 
if i had to pick? If i was convinced I could make a -GREAT- impression, enough to get the CEO to remember me and want to hire me for the future, i'd do that. Otherwise the VP 4 hour thing sounds more helpful. Though the CEO thing could potentially be more interesting. and tasty.
 
Lunch with CEO. Order the Surf N Turf.
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The OP doesn't state the CEO is paying. Call me cynical, but I've worked for long enough in the corporate world to know that if it's not stated in writing that it probably isn't happening, so I'd not be the least bit suprised if dah boss asked for seperate checks.
 
During my annual performance review last year I was essnetially told that I wasn't kissing the right ass and needed to step it up. I pointed out that the lab supervisors and people who actually do work are more valuable to me than those who sit around in meetings, and I got dirty looks in response.

I talked to my former grad research advisor a few weeks ago and told him about this. His advice shocked me. He said that kissing ass isn't necessarily a bad thing.



I think I'm going to go become a sheep farmer.
 
Originally posted by: MrChad
4 hours of career counseling is banned by the Geneva conventions, I believe. 😛
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haha

come on, 4 hours of learning how to be a team player and appreciate diversity? how can you lose!
 
I would go with CEO.

His tales of experiences and knowledge should be more helpful and interesting than some HR couseling. It wouldn't hurt to also know him at personal level and try to develop a network as well.
 
Originally posted by: glenn1
Lunch with CEO. Order the Surf N Turf.
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The OP doesn't state the CEO is paying.
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Fortune 20 company and it's for charity, I'll bet you a lot of money OP won't be paying.

Since you're an intern I would say do the lunch with the CEO, if he's cool it might be fun, if he isn't it's only about an hour. Even if you offend the guy you go back to school at the end of the internship. Four hours with HR is going to be pure torture any which way you slice it.



 
Lunch with the boss would definitly be what I'd do. I always like talking to these people, learning about their busienss, how they ended up there, etc. I've even done informational interviews with pretty high up business people, they are surprisingly very open to that sort of thing. Let the boss do most of the talking, don't ask for a raise/new position etc.

career counseling with HR, lmao completely useless. You'll learn far more from the boss.
 
ok, i'll start to bid on the "lunch with the CEO" haha..thanks guys for the replies. I can tell now that the 4 hours of HR talk will bore me to tears.
 
My vote is for the CEO


BTW, which company?

fortune 500 top 20 Text

1 General Electric
2 FedEx
3 Southwest Airlines
4 Procter & Gamble
5 Starbucks
6 Johnson & Johnson
7 Berkshire Hathaway
8 Dell
9 Toyota Motor
10 Microsoft
11 Apple Computer
12 Wal-Mart Stores
13* United Parcel Service
13* Home Depot
15* PepsiCo
15* Costco Wholesale
17 American Express
18 Goldman Sachs Group
19 Intl. Business Machines
20 3M
 
It is a a fortune 20 company by size:

Full list Current View: 1-100 101-200 201-300 301-400 401-500 501-600 601-700 701-800 801-900 901-1000
Rank Company Revenues ($ millions) Profits ($ millions)
1 Exxon Mobil 339,938.0 36,130.0
2 Wal-Mart Stores 315,654.0 11,231.0
3 General Motors 192,604.0 -10,600.0
4 Chevron 189,481.0 14,099.0
5 Ford Motor 177,210.0 2,024.0
6 ConocoPhillips 166,683.0 13,529.0
7 General Electric 157,153.0 16,353.0
8 Citigroup 131,045.0 24,589.0
9 American Intl. Group 108,905.0 10,477.0
10 Intl. Business Machines 91,134.0 7,934.0
11 Hewlett-Packard 86,696.0 2,398.0
12 Bank of America Corp. 83,980.0 16,465.0
13 Berkshire Hathaway 81,663.0 8,528.0
14 Home Depot 81,511.0 5,838.0
15 Valero Energy 81,362.0 3,590.0
16 McKesson 80,514.6 -156.7
17 J.P. Morgan Chase & Co. 79,902.0 8,483.0
18 Verizon Communications 75,111.9 7,397.0
19 Cardinal Health 74,915.1 1,050.7
20 Altria Group 69,148.0 10,435.
 
I say the CEO option.

If the HR consult was 4 one hour sessions... then...maybe.... but 4 hours all at once, I don't think would be as productive as the powers that be might think.

Just a thought....

If you and "The Boss" aren't in the same location, are they going to pay expenses too?

I know for me to have lunch with "The Boss" one of us would have to travel to meet with the other.
 
Originally posted by: Dunbar
Originally posted by: glenn1
Lunch with CEO. Order the Surf N Turf.
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The OP doesn't state the CEO is paying.
Click to expand...

Fortune 20 company and it's for charity, I'll bet you a lot of money OP won't be paying.

Since you're an intern I would say do the lunch with the CEO, if he's cool it might be fun, if he isn't it's only about an hour. Even if you offend the guy you go back to school at the end of the internship. Four hours with HR is going to be pure torture any which way you slice it.
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I'll bet you a lot of money that an intern has NO chance of winning the lunch with the CEO.

I don't think either the lunch with the CEO or the career counselling would be beneficial, so I'd probably bid on neither.
 
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