{"id":4465,"date":"2020-07-30T14:31:55","date_gmt":"2020-07-30T21:31:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogschapman.wpenginepowered.com\/business\/2020\/07\/30\/student-spotlight-richard-lobel-mba-20\/"},"modified":"2020-07-30T14:31:55","modified_gmt":"2020-07-30T21:31:55","slug":"student-spotlight-richard-lobel-mba-20","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.chapman.edu\/business\/2020\/07\/30\/student-spotlight-richard-lobel-mba-20\/","title":{"rendered":"Student Spotlight"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"Name:<\/strong> Richard Lobel<\/a><\/p>\n

Degree:<\/strong> MBA, Finance<\/p>\n

Company:<\/strong> NCUA<\/a><\/p>\n

Position\/Industry:<\/strong> Credit Union Examiner; Federal Government, Financial Auditing<\/p>\n

Graduation Date<\/strong>: May, 2020<\/p>\n

What excites you about this position?<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

I have always dreamed of public service, and this position allows me to serve the community in a tangible way by ensuring the financial health of credit unions throughout Southern California. I will be visiting many credit unions through this region and that will certainly serve to make this an exciting and interesting position.<\/p>\n

How did you strategize landing this position?<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

I tried many approaches over the previous months.\u00a0 Certainly I applied to many, many jobs on job boards such as Indeed and LinkedIn. I also tried to utilize the connections I had made with Chapman as much as possible. In regards to this role, I knew that Federal Government hiring had not been impacted by COVID-19 and they hired purely on merit. I therefore figured I had a very good chance to land the role. To prepare for the interview, I believe I performed over ten mock interviews, which dramatically increased my confidence and preparedness.<\/p>\n

What career advice do you have for other students, or anyone, looking for an internship or job in this market?<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

I think the most important thing is to recognize that some days during this job search will be much harder than others. It is a very difficult process. What helped me was doing a little each day. This helped me feel like I was productive and working towards the goal. Also, applying directly on company websites is much better than applying on job boards. Even if you find the job on a job board, apply to the position via the company’s career page. I found this to be a much better way to reach the company. Good luck, you got this!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Richard Lobel, MBA '20 – Increased confidence from over ten mock interviews led to a strong government position!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3488,"featured_media":4476,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[130,302,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4465","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-argyros-alumni","category-argyros-career-advancement","category-graduate"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.chapman.edu\/business\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4465","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.chapman.edu\/business\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.chapman.edu\/business\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.chapman.edu\/business\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3488"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.chapman.edu\/business\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4465"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.chapman.edu\/business\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4465\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.chapman.edu\/business\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4476"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.chapman.edu\/business\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4465"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.chapman.edu\/business\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4465"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.chapman.edu\/business\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4465"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}