Grad School Blues - Why someone should hire me

I'm about to enter my second year of grad school to earn my International MBA - be done in March! I'm really glad that I went back to school at the time I did, when everyone is losing their jobs due to the recession, its nice to know that I can focus on developing myself and learning more. Also the company I worked for in D.C. was being overtaken by the greediness and stupidity of the owner/manager who was mostly great at hiding the severity of the companies health from his employees. I was naive and trusting and wanted to take the experience to learn more and come back never to be put in that situation again.

But now there's the worry of not finding a job when I'm done that will be enough to sustain the school debt I'm in from trying to earn that education.

I think that my biggest obstacle is making myself stand out from all the other applicants coming out around the same time. Not to mention those that have the same degree as me but not the work experience or hard-working ethics. I didn't have the best test score entering grad school, but I didn't pay tons of money to take the prep course like most. I do have a 3.6 gpa and am president of the women in business club, so that's good. Mainly I'm focusing on studying abroad, that seemed to be the best thing for me from undergrad. Now in grad school I did a trip to Croatia and in December will be going to five countries in Asia and doing an independent study paper comparing the countries (I haven't figured out what yet).

Last night I was working on my resume, and I thought of writing a cover letter in advance that I could work on and make eye-catching and passionate. Then I can apply to jobs quickly and just adjust it slightly to fit the application.

Here are some ideas on why someone should hire me, no particular order and not edited (some sarcasm included):

- When I am a leader I focus on helping my followers succeed, because only when they succeed do I look good
- I'll calmly get my work done in an efficient manner, I won't continually act stressed and run around the office swearing and letting everyone know how busy I am, slamming drawers and bossing people around.

- I can step up when needed to lead a team, but I'm great at being a follower and helping my leader to succeed

- I can learn how to do new tasks very quickly, if I don't know how to do something I'm great at Googling it or reading books or asking someone, in order to learn

- I speak Spanish conversationally and could speak fluently if needed

- I am nice to my coworkers and know how to motivate them to finish tasks and take pride in their work

- I can have a conversation with the janitor or the CEO of the company, or the CEO of our companies prospective client or competitor, and make them all like me.

- I take on a lot of work but am honest when I don't want to take on too much so that it would hurt my work

- I have worked since I was a pre-teen, in every job imaginable - retail, fast food, customer service, door-to-door surveys, phone surveys, pay day loans approval and collections, data entry, sterilization technition at an endodontist, bulk mail stuffer and sealer, baby sitter, house cleaner, corn picker.

- My work after college offered extensive responsibility and due to the incompetence of the business owner I led the entire office and we were able to produce. I think that the skill of not being taken down by hardtimes but finding another route is vital.

More to come on my development to be a millionaire in 2 years !! (my goal)