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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...
...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...