[candre717]

Some Issues (generalizations, of course):

> Students confuse avocation with vocation.

> Students are foolish to IGNORE the realities of the job market for their majors as we assume more debt.

> College doesn't teach networking.

> College doesn't teach employable skills. Theory AND Practice.

> Students don't have realistic expectations of their first jobs after college.

> Even a little investment or initiative in learning something practical - like SQL, Drupal, or Sharepoint - can go a long way to opening doors to jobs students actually want.

> Not everyone needs to be a business or engineering major, but we, as a students, need think about life after college more seriously than we have.

[MartinCron]

College doesn't teach networking

I take it you've never been to business school. Sometimes it felt like they taught nothing but.

[skadamat]

I'm a business major in a top 10 undergrad b-school now and they still don't teach networking unfortunately.

They just throw networking and recruiting info sessions DAILY, but they don't teach you how to network. They don't teach you how to explore your passions and interests, research companies working on those kinds of problems, and how to approach them for internships, jobs, etc.

Business schools succeed when they send a lot of students to corporations, so that these corporations come back and sponsor programs and stuff for the B-School. If you're interested in other jobs besides corporations, you have to find them yourself!

[beambot]

Sounds like they're teaching it "trial by fire." My undergrad and grad EE days: 12-hour workdays (nights?) in a dungeon-like room.

I often say to mentored students: engineering is 80% banging your head against a wall, 10% cursing, and 10% progress. It's a long, hard slog to become an expert. Daily networking events sounds like that to me (and frankly, even more unpleasant!)