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Companies tend to prefer the closed method because they can choose which students to interview, says Linda Z. Chernick, the associate director of the OCS who supervises recruiting. This February, 26 companies will participate in the bid method, while 87 already have opted for the closed process which began this fall...
...Chernick says that the bidding process was initiated five or six years ago to replace the first-come, first-served method of granting interviews. Under the open system, "students would be waiting outside at five in the morning" to sign up for interviews, she says...
...media was overwhelming negative on job opportunities for liberal arts graduates, and students were coming in panicked," says Linda Chernick, OCS business counselor. "In the past year that's really turned around because we're seeing scores of articles extolling the rosy future...
Only 33 percent of the Class of 1986participated in on-campus recruiting as opposed to40 percent of the Class of 1985, the OCS surveyshowed, and some investment banking firms hadempty interview slots last year because fewerHarvard students than expected were interested inapplying to those firms, Chernick says...
...They want to think about things a little before beginning a job search. Students feel a little more confident with the better economy," Chernick said...