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For fields outside of finance and consulting, which traditionally dominate the recruiting process, students say they have had a harder time getting career assistance at OCS. And OCS counselors say it is harder to provide students with direct paths to such careers—a source of frustration for students...
Gilmore says part of the appeal of jobs that hire through a recruiting process is that the system offers students an accessible, already-established framework to follow in order to achieve employment—a framework that is largely absent in other fields.
A 2003 survey by Sarah Deighton, who interned with OCS while a student at the Graduate School of Education, showed that the number one career choice among students in all years—who were asked to “indicate the top three fields you are most interested in...
And resources exist for students who seek jobs in fields other than business, like the Center for Public Interest Careers. Students who are interested in such careers, however, say they have not found adequate career resources at OCS.
“I guess that’s something that we haven’t really discussed,” says Robert A. Lue, executive director of undergraduate education in Molecular and Cellular Biology. “If we pursue the matter of a strict GPA cap, there may...