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Harvard’s Office of Career Services is an excellent asset for students. Whether a student is looking for a summer internship, exploring career opportunities, or finding post-graduation employment, OCS has a wealth of readily accessible resources, including brochures, contacts, career counselors, and programs aimed at providing information about a broad range of career opportunities. However, many students will not use any of these resources. This is because one program, the On-Campus Recruiting Program, overshadows all the rest. OCR has detrimentally and unnecessarily influenced undergraduates’ conceptions of employment opportunities, and OCS needs to do more...
Every winter, juniors who are interested in summer internships in the finance industry can be seen hurrying in suits from interview to information session to yet another interview. E-recruiting makes the process of landing a lucrative financial internship easier, streamlining the process by which interested students find out about and apply for the positions. The same students then generally use e-recruiting their senior fall to apply for full-time jobs at the same list of banks and firms...
...students uninterested in finance, the path to an internship or job is more uncertain. Though the Office of Career Services has a database with hundreds of jobs that are not in the financial arena, the onus is still mostly on students to learn about opportunities on their own and go through the application process with less guidance than that which e-recruiting provides for its counterparts in finance. Laudably, the college has developed many programs that focus on helping students obtain jobs in alternative careers, such as public service. This new emphasis is in students’ best interests...
...Another service at Harvard that deserves praise is the Institute of Politics’s Director’s Internship Program. Through the IOP, students can apply for internships in politics or public service, ranging from interning at a congressman’s offices to working for Politico. This year, a record 375 students applied for a Director’s Internship. Students clearly have an interest in working for such organizations, and the opportunities afforded to them by the IOP are commendable...
...business, consulting, or finance. Many of these students were lured to the business world because of the lucrative financial benefits associated with such jobs. Unfortunately, many public-sector jobs require students to sacrifice the opportunity to make a great deal of money. A student with a summer internship at Goldman Sachs, for example, will receive a much higher salary than a student working for his local congressman. Commendably, Harvard has taken great steps to address this inequality. The IOP’s Summer Stipend Program offers a stipend to students working in low- or non-paying summer jobs in government...