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by was_boring
3279 days ago
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Effort doesn't alway equal results and we shouldn't be praising them not attaining their stated goals. (or perhaps they are, and their goals don't matter to their customers -- students) I'm just a single point of data, but none of my friends ever found the career services people to be helpful in any meaningful way. In my world, their success rate is 0%. |
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My post wasn't intended as praise for career services... it was intended as praise for departments and universities that prepare their students for internships and jobs.
> and their goals don't matter to their customers -- students
I don't know this, but I think a lot of the dedicated professionalized career services people are mostly there more to placate clueless parents. It's marketing, and it works.
> none of my friends ever found the career services people to be helpful in any meaningful way
Absolutely. The scare quotes in my original post are there fore a reason...
That said, good career services people are usually work closely with or are even embedded in the department -- not a separate service in the admin building. They ensure that there are regular talks from the alumni network or local community. That companies are invited to come in for an evening and talk about what they're working on / what skills they need. And then ensure those companies are invited back to job fairs etc. in the Fall, with companies who take it as a serious opportunity and who you think are most likely to fast track your students' resumes.
In fact, at smaller universities/departments, the best career services employees are typically professors who keep in contact with graduated students are former colleagues.