Roy Benjamin

Internship Year: 2008
Then: Marketing Intern at TD Bank
Now: 20+ Year Career at TD

“I was unemployed for about a year and a half after I graduated. The job market was hard – no different than probably what people are experiencing today.”

“I applied with a different name just to get back in. By the time I walked into that TD interview I had nothing left to lose – and that’s exactly what got me the job. Stop rehearsing your answers. Stop performing. Human beings have a detection system for phony – it’s why we know the difference between a real apple and a plastic one. When you walk in as yourself, that’s when the door actually opens. Twenty years later, I’m still here.”

• New grad