An excellent post from Jonathan Degani at Job Mob suggests that the best way to get into a company or organization is to understand the internal dynamics and how most people make their way into that company:
If you know where you want to go, the best thing you can do is contact
someone who is there and learn the path, down to step one. Then focus
your job search on getting to that one pivotal step. For example, in KMPG, the new blood enters either (1) as a CPA or (2) in transfer
pricing.
When I spoke to someone from Osem, I found out that in order to work
there you have to start out in the PR department. Nielsen’s workers
all start out in marketing analysis.
This is particularly true for entry-level positions at larger organizations where there tend to be certain entry points into the company where they are likely to hire from the outside.
The trick, then, is to do some research into the company and to try to find people to talk with who can offer insight into the typical paths at that organization. Here are some additional resources for conducting that research and making those connections:
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