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...this ease of entering firms is self-perpetuating. At the career forum, I met up with old friends who were working at A.T. Kearney, Bain, Goldman Sachs. It's tempting to work in a place where you already know people. The machinery of placing students into the private sector is a well-oiled machine...
This convenience argument is one I cannot argue with. I cannot argue with it because it's true. Look at the OCS newsletter and you will find private sector classifieds vastly outnumbering public service jobs...
Thus, the disproportionate flow is understandable but regrettable. I don't consider recruiting seniors selfish or greedy, but it is a shame that the men and women most qualified to enter the public sector are the same ones who are least likely to do it. Perhaps it is because recruiting is safe...
...career forum, over 60 tables were dedicated to corporations, roughly four to public service. The overwhelming majority of organizations interviewing at OCS is in the private sector. Now Harvard may argue that the demand for a Peace Corps presentation is not there and only banks can afford to rent the Faculty Club for a panel discussion...
...believe seniors entering the private sector are greedy and selfish and lack a social conscience. I do believe they may be a little risk averse and the College could do more to ameliorate qualms about entering public service. I think it's important to realize how, relatively to others, if the world were a hundred people, how really fortunate and how much we could...