Word: contests
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...front door to Eliot House, something entirely new had burst onto the campus poster scene. Disguising itself as an ordinary poster, the blinding orange flier nearly blended in with all of the "Take Back the Night" posters until its bold, screaming words came into full view: "RESUME CONTEST...
...terms alone are shocking in their normalcy. Resume. Contest. Both are words that you'd expect to see on a poster, maybe even on the same poster, as in "To enter the Third Annual Edible Pre-Frosh Contest, send your resume to University Hall." Or "Prepare to witness a blood-chilling contest as the Women's Ping-Pong Team and their Princeton rivals resume their bloody battle of balls." But a resume contest...
...closer look. And once more, the poster delivers. "Are you a senior looking for a JOB?" it screams. "Are you a sophomore or a junior looking for a SUMMER INTERNSHIP?" (Notice that these categories apply to an overwhelming majority of students.) "Then enter the 1st annual Harvard Resume Contest! Contest judges are looking for well-rounded resumes. Your G.P.A. is not required...
...here one of the most common Harvard fantasies, though one rarely so explicitly exploited, emerges. (Or, shall we say, resumes.) Harvard students became Harvard students via a nationwide resume contest that all of us won. But now that we need to go through the process of finding a "JOB" or a "SUMMER INTERNSHIP," we secretly wish that this whole business would just take care of itself--no irritating cover letters, no nerve-wracking interviews, just drop the thing in the mail and be done with it--we're good enough, aren't we? And here, suddenly, on the bulletin board...
...what is the glorious Resume Contest award? A plum position at a fancy New York firm? A paid political vacation in Washington, D.C.? "Three winners," the flier promises, "one from each year, will receive a $50.00 prize!" Here our hearts sink. After all, it was merely months ago that certain companies, running their own private resume contests, were offering a $50,000 prize. (The superfluous zeroes on the poster are part of the tease.) And then we get to the fine print: "As part of a larger research project on career choices by organizational researchers, a resume contest will...