Word: ocr
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...problem with OCR is that the scope of available positions is incredibly limited. While OCS excitedly announces on its website that over 25 different industries were represented in last year’s OCR, it acknowledges that the companies represented are heavily weighted to the consulting and, at least until this year, financial sectors. This is an obvious fact to anyone who has ever used the program...
...There is nothing wrong with applying for jobs in consulting or finance. These areas often promise highly paid, intellectually stimulating positions and can be good options for individuals who do not yet have a clear direction of where they want to go in their careers. However, OCR makes these options much more salient and gives them much more weight than it ought to; it is comparably much easier to find and apply for these jobs than for jobs that are not listed through OCR or on the e-recruiting website...
...friend of mine once noted that, if 1,000 (or even only 688) people run by your window screaming, you are going to go outside and see what all of the commotion is about. In this way, OCR similarly distracts students from looking at other job opportunities; “everyone” is looking at jobs through OCR, so it is very easy to think that you should be doing so as well...
...make other opportunities more readily accessible, but more needs to be done. E-recruiting contains jobs that do not necessarily conduct on-campus interviews, and a first step OCS should take would include advertising these positions and making it clearer that, through the same process and website that OCR uses, students can find an even broader range of jobs. As a second effort, OCS should make a point of adding more companies to the e-recruiting website even if they do not hold on-campus interviews. The key is making as broad a range of opportunities as possible accessible from...
...This is undoubtedly one of the hardest years for job seekers in recent memory, and, while there are fewer opportunities to be found through OCR, this affords the perfect chance to reexamine the way that students are looking for and finding employment. By explicitly broadening its focus, by making students aware of other opportunities, and by making it even easier to apply for these opportunities, OCS will further its goal of helping students find the right...