Word: ocr
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...wealth of readily accessible resources, including brochures, contacts, career counselors, and programs aimed at providing information about a broad range of career opportunities. However, many students will not use any of these resources. This is because one program, the On-Campus Recruiting Program, overshadows all the rest. OCR has detrimentally and unnecessarily influenced undergraduates’ conceptions of employment opportunities, and OCS needs to do more to not only present other options but also to make them as easily accessible...
...seniors in the Class of 2008, 688 students used OCR, or about 45 percent of the entire class. These students submitted 15,816 applications in total. Almost half of the students who applied to jobs using the e-recruiting program accepted job offers, meaning that just over 20 percent of the entire graduating class ended up accepting job offers through OCR. OCR is unquestionably ubiquitous. It provides a large number of jobs to undergraduates and attracts many more applicants than there are positions available...
...However, the portal through which students access OCR, Crimson~Experience! (commonly called e-recruiting), can be a source of non-OCR opportunities. E-recruiting has become synonymous with on-campus interviews, but there are listings for jobs that do not offer on-campus interviews. Yet this aspect of the e-recruiting process receives little attention because OCR is so widespread...
...OCR affirmed the legality of Harvard’s policy on April 1, although CASV members claimed that the OCR only ruled in Harvard’s favor because of the quiet change in the policy’s wording...
Wendy R. Murphy, the attorney for the complainant in the OCR case, said that the changed language widened the scope of those who can initiate disciplinary proceedings to those who share their experience verbally but do not have supporting evidence...