Hello all,

Yesterday I had an interview with an oil and gas company for a Financial Analyst position. I have about 4 years experience in oil and gas and just obtained my MBA in December of last year. Because of the position we talked a lot about the work that I did in my MBA.

I am contemplating sending them examples of my work (I have several directly related to finance in oil and gas) as it allows me to standout a little bit through my work and gives me an opportunity to reach back out to them so I am fresh in their mind. I was the first one to interview and they have a couple more people to interview this week.

My question to the board is your thoughts on if it would be a good idea to provide examples of my work to the employer or would be inappropriate?

TIA

Sorry, should have clarified. I'd only provide papers or case studies from my MBA program, no work done for another company. We talked about work done for those classes a lot in the interview. That's why I bring it up

Maybe should've had it in the interview while it was on topic?

I explained all of it well, I was mostly wanting to use this as an excuse to reach back out to them. Maybe this is wrong, but I've always felt you have a little disadvantage when you're the first one to be interviewed

rmp15 said:

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Sorry, should have clarified. I'd only provide papers or case studies from my MBA program, no work done for another company. We talked about work done for those classes a lot in the interview. That's why I bring it up

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I don't see an issue with providing them work from your MBA program - unless it was done with confidential info from your current job.

As a hiring manager, I wouldn't look at it. No offense to the work done but if we'd already discussed it in the interview, that's probably all I need to know and I don't have time to look at case work on the side.

If you're looking for an excuse to reach out, just send a link to an interesting, published article on the topic or a well-written thank you email, specifically mentioning that you'd enjoyed the discussion around x,y,z topics and look forward to hearing from them.