Pat Hedley has three decades of global private equity experience at General Atlantic, and now works with entrepreneurs and mid-sized growth company CEOs to help them accelerate revenue growth, expand their strategic network and maximize their company value. She is also the author of Meet 100 People, A How to Guide to the Career and Life Edge Everyone's Missing, encouraging everyone to meet people and build valuable life-long relationships. In this episode, we walk with Pat about what meeting people and building valuable life-long relationships entails, a part of what is involved in networking, including: Understanding Yourself: Knowing who you are at the core of making connections Real Relationship-building: What it really means to establish relationships that are meaningful Focus on the Long-term: Not discounting connections you think won’t help you Can’t Lose Attitude: Getting past feeling intimidated to connect with people Click here to listen.

Yiping Yang is an MS Accountancy candidate set to graduate in 2019. She first met alumna Diana Ge (MS Accountancy '12) at a social event, and then when she started her internship at Deloitte last spring, Diana was her training facilitator. Yiping was impressed by Diana's confidence in giving lectures in front of dozens of interns and by her kindness in sharing great advice when interns approached her. From Yiping: "During my internship, I ran into Diana a few times in the office, she always seemed energetic, productive and efficient through her work. I was curious about her background, and when I asked her to do a phone interview, Diana was very happy to share her thoughts on what has led to her success."  1. Can you briefly introduce yourself, including your background, your current job and career path? I am from Beijing and I came to US for my Master of Accounting at Baruch. My current job is an audit and assurance manager at Deloitte’s New York office in the

The GCMC Podcast gets off-the-record thoughts and perspectives from individuals who have been hiring managers and in hiring positions in their careers. In this episode, we chat with Ottaviana De Ruvo, Campus Recruiter at Withum. To listen to this Episode of the podcast, click here  or listen on the Apple Podcasts app. Topics discussed with Ottaviana include: Developing your interpersonal communication skills Non-verbal communication at events and standing out at career fairs Communicating on-the-job with your team and supervisors Communicating with senior-level professionals and managers Understanding different types of communication styles Withum is a nationally ranked public accounting firm providing advisory, tax and audit services to businesses and individuals on a local-to-global scale. Meet Ottaviana and other Withum team members at the Accounting Career Fair and Midsize Accounting Roundtable. For information on jobs/internships and upcoming events, please login to