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...earlier and more numerous inquiries at Harvard's employment services this year are good indications of student concern. Wallace is right. Remage also reports that more people than last year visited the OGCP as early as semester break in search of a summer job. Honnet, too, noticed that students came in earlier this year to inquire about summer employment...
Charles R. Ruemelin, OGCP government careers counselor, this week described a year-to-year shrinkage in the public sector job market. But Ruemelin can't talk specifies yet because when money is scarce governmental offices delay for as long as possible making decisions about reductions of cuts in internship programs. If Ruemelin calls now to find out about a program, he is told that the program has no coordinator because, of a hiring freeze, and that the budget for the program...
Internship programs designed for only minority students are at least as scarce as jobs in health and government. OGCP counselor William D. Wallace has a folder tucked away behind his desk filled with old brochures of programs in the health field which no longer exist...
...perhaps optimistically, that it will land him a job as a government clerk, if he cannot find anything better by June. For others, the rating is a prerequisite for a government internship program, and the competition for these jobs can be stiff. After Ruemelin ran a notice in the OGCP newsletter advertising 15 pre-law internships in Washington 15 to 20 people came into the OGCP every day for a week for more information--a number "up noticeably" from last year...
According to Ruemelin, the OGCP's effort during the past two years to publicize job opportunities has intensified the competition. For example, OGCP's Government Internship Guide makes it easier for each one of the 2000 people who has picked it up to apply for internships, but if it's easier for one person, it's also easier for everyone else with a copy of the guide...