Tamia Marrow, 21, managed to successfully land a full-time offer after interning virtually this summer at BlackRock.Tamia Marrow, 21, is a first-generation college student who aced her virtual internship this summer at BlackRock.
Marrow isn't shy about admitting that she comes from humble means. She and her brother are the first in her family to go to college. Without her scholarships, Marrow said she wouldn't have been able to go to college in the first place.
"The current full-time analysts, they reached out, some of them called me, emailed me, sent me a text to congratulate me," she said. "I knew always that I was going to accept because this was my goal. Working for BlackRock was my goal." "I tell students all the time: Companies nowadays are not looking for the student who knows all of the technical terms. They're not looking for the student who has five years of experience, because no student has that," she said. "They want the student that they can teach and the student that is going to put their best effort forward."
The imperative of advancing diversity and inclusion at BlackRock has been on the mind of the firm's top leadership, including CEO Larry Fink, as Business Insider has previously reported.LinkedIn post this summer