Word: career
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Eleven hundred seniors, or fully two-thirds of the graduating class, will go through on-campus recruiting this year. All but a few are pursuing careers in business. A significant handful are plagued by doubts about the integrity of their career choice, having been bamboozled by some peers into believing that they are "selling out." Many on this campus paint investment bankers, management consultants and indeed the entire capitalist business system as socially irresponsible, and plead with seniors to take up "responsible" careers that will benefit the 1.3 billion chronically poor of the world. I would like to echo this...
...final determinant in many Harvard students' choice of a business career is the pursuit of excellence. Every age is remembered, if it is remembered at all, for excellence along a certain dimension. We might remember the Romans for their military might, the Renaissance for its superlative art and architecture, the Enlightenment for its philosophy. A millenium hence, the only thing for which our American century will be remembered (with the possible exception of theoretical scientific advances in atomic physics and molecular biology) is the perfecting of a nuanced, sophisticated capitalist business system that has lifted large masses of humankind...
These, then, are the simple and powerful reasons for a career in business. Many proponents of so-called "responsible careers" on this campus would have me justify my career choice to a homeless Bolivian man. Since I just got behind the wheels of the bulldozer that will likely build that man a bigger, better, more efficiently constructed home financed at lower cost, I can justify my career very easily. Can those with the toothpicks do the same? Kaustuv Sen '99 is an economics concentrator in Eliot House. He is also The Crimson's reader representative...
...Career Forum has become an easy target for students who are eager for more information and support in seeking positions outside of banking and consulting. However, the lack of representation at the fair by non-profit organizations has less to do with callousness on the part of the Office of Career Services (OCS) and everything to do with the structure of the non-profit world...
...hiring structure of the nonprofit world, therefore, students need assistance and support in creating job search strategies. OCS and Philips Brooks House (PBH) are working together to make such searches and strategies less isolating for students. From October through April there are monthly workshops on elements of non-profit career searches. On Dec. 10, Philips Brooks House will focus on "Opportunities in Education." In addition, Gail Gilmore conducts regular small-group job strategy sessions for students interested in non-profit work...