Word: chernick
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...Harvard students are sophisticated and they read," says Linda Chernick, associate director of the Harvard Office of Career Services. "It's clear that the crash will have a definite impact on the numbers [of students who will choose to be recruited for investment banking], but no one knows what that will be this year as of yet because the deadline for February recruiting is not until December...
While investment banking firms insist that neither their financial analyst nor recruiting programs have changed as a result of the crash, the career no longer looks as appealing as it once did. Chernick says that she has suggested to students "because of the unusual situation this year and the obvious economic uncertainty, that it is a very good idea to have back-up plans and other options as alternatives to investment banking...
Although there is "no perfect [recruiting] system," Chernick says, the advantage to the bidding process is that the students with the most interest get interviews...
...Campus Recruiting Program] should not be seen as the only way to get a job," says Chernick, stressing that OCS has other resources available to aid seniors...
...companies like Harvard grads; last year one-third of the 200 interviewed students got job offers, according to Chernick. "We've had great success over the past years and we have Harvard graduates currently at the partner level," says a representative from Peat, Marwick Mitchell. "We hire a lot of Harvard people and are very disposed to Harvard students...