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...last fall, reveals how absurdly stressful recruiting is. “Blame it on the economy” is the present mantra: an exogenous scapegoat for the tribulations of recruiting. However, structural failures in the Office of Career Services’ “On-Campus Recruiting” platform are presently more detrimental to the system’s efficiency at pairing applicants and employers. And thus, each year, many qualified applicants are left offer-less, and even students who do manage to receive offers still find themselves sometimes unhappy...
Like in Akerlof’s used-car market, the OCR platform presents employers with two categories of lemons (though others exist)—the disinterested applicant and the opportunitistic one. The former may not initially be interested in the job at all but feigns interest once granted an interview. This represents an error in selection against the interests of applicants who would like offers from the jobs they prefer most. But because of uncertainty in the market, interviews and offers are misallocated from those who should ideally receive them, those most qualified and committed for a given job?...
Benzan emphasized education as a part of his platform, saying that math skills for young children and college readiness for minority youth are among his top priorities...
...Crimson, the chaotic environment provided a good platform for learning, as the three skippers, Palmer, junior John Stokes, and junior Colin Santangelo, were team-racing together for the first time...
...Gingrich, an outsize personality whose Contract with America manifesto gave congressional Republicans a simple and accessible platform around which to rally voter discontent. This time, there's no clear-cut, dynamic leader to spearhead the charge and challenge Obama the way Gingrich challenged Clinton. On the other hand, in 1994 no one knew who Democratic House Speaker Tom Foley and Democratic Senate majority leader George Mitchell were. These days, the faces of Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid are plastered all over GOP attack...