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The career department is not a lot of help. Most of the people I graduated with
or who graduated before or after me, had to do all their legwork themselves, and
received little or no help from career resources. They have cheesy fake
interviews, which don't teach you anything, adn workshops which aren't helpful
either. For example, I went to them for lots of resume help. Later I emailed my
resume to family members in the business world, and they told me it needed major
changes. Their are a lot of successful alumni, however you'll have to contact
them yourself to make a connection. The office doesn't provide lots of helpful
lists-many lists are too general-and many people work in a field that wasn't
their major. The campus interviews were a joke as well. I didn't go to school
for four years to interview as a department store clerk or a bank teller at a
campus interview. The interviews and general alumni networking are only for
investment banking-or at least they were before 9/11, and finance and for several
consulting firms. Their are internship opportunities available to students for
1-3 months every summer. However, again, they are in limited fields, mostly
unpaid-and with some housing costs too-which are expensive in big cities, and
involve a lot of xeroxing, typing and coffee making. Real job experience? Not
really. And did a lot of people get good job offers from them? Not really. So for
a lot of people it was giving up your summer for 0 dollars and 0 experience. A
few people did make connections. A few people eliminated jobs. The internships,
like the alumni contacts, are limited in the fields they cover. Many potential
job fields don't have internships through the school, and the school is unhelpful
with finding interships via other sources for students. From what I've found,
most alumni with successful jobs, either are self-made-no thanks to their alma
mater, have parents or family who gave them a successful in-track-75% of dension
alumni-or contacted almuni themselves and got a connection. The biggest career
encouraged is probably graduate or law school because they don't know what to do
with all these liberal arts candidates. The lack of a business undergraduate
major, education certificate, and engineering major are problems for some
students. That and the liberal arts degree can either harm you or help you by
making you more diverse. However, with today's field most people need a more
specific master's degree anyway, and some of the above students except those
wanting to teach-who by state law for public school need a certificate, can get
into great graduate programs or find good jobs without the traditional major or
curriculum. Some students find their extracurricular involvement and close
relations with professors help them into good graduate schools. Some students
also get Fulbright scholarships, or other awards or national honors as a result
of working closely with professors.
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