Word: ogcp
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Robert J. Ginn, associate director of OGCP, notes that 1975 has been "the toughest year to find work for students with geographical limitations." He says men have been coming to him trying to find jobs near to where their girlfriends are going to be working or studying, while in previous years the roles had been reversed. Ginn also says there is a substantial upsurge of interest among women in going to Business School...
...social life there--well, let's not talk about it. But they pay well, and if I learned Arabic, when I came back I could find a job teaching that." My schemes weren't even at this stage: I was as bewildered as a friend who took the OGCP's interest test and found that whereas freshman year he'd been interested in Music and Art now he was only interested in Having Adventures. He didn't know where to prepare for this career, so he applied to the London School of Economics...
...OGCP counselors tell students they can escape this competition by being more imaginative and aggressive in their search for jobs. "Most jobs are not perfectly designed and if they are, you don't fit these description," OGCP director Francis D. Fisher '47 explained last month. Fisher's solution: get employers to think how they can use your unique assets, and they'll hire you even if there was no formal "job opening...
...matter how tough the squeeze, Harvard's job counselors say Harvard students will pull though. At last month's OGCP job hunting clinic, Fisher gave lots of advice. "Try to get yourself into as many positions as you can where you are in conversation with people who have the power to hire you," he said, adding, "If you know someone with energy and time you can always turn knowing any person into knowing someone else. No matter how tough the labor market, you do this enough times, in enough situations..." Fisher said...
...OGCP Counselor Ruemelin: A shrinking summer job market poses problems for students...