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A common complaint is that Harvard does not prepare students for anything
directly preprofessionally. This makes it difficult for some students who would
like a more technical, practical education to better prepare them for a career in
finance, for example. However, the Harvard name is still as powerful of a brand
as it always has been--employers usually think that these other more practical
aspects are trainable, and the fact that you are from Harvard is still extrememly
impressive to them and testify to your smartness. The Harvard name opens doors
for sure. The career center/campus recruiting is extrememly competitive,
time-consuming, and stressful for everyone during the fall. The problems are that
the only companies that come are i-banking or consulting firms, and so you have a
huge number of talented, hungry Harvard students competing against each other for
a small pool of jobs that are very hard to get by nature. Also, some people get
sucked in to ibanking or finance jobs even if they are not sure if they want to
do it, simply because everyone and their mother does it. Harvard needs to promote
other careers as well, but those other companies do not actively recruit here.
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