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Other schools in the Boston area have different policies with regard to Southwestern. MIT doesn't allow the company to recruit on campus because "students objected to misleading advertisements." Phyllis Jackson, assistant director of career planning and placement, says. Jackson adds that in the past recruiters have asked to use MIT rooms to interview but have been denied permission since they refuse to fill out detailed information forms about the company. Boston University has also banned Southwestern because recruiters used campus facilities without permission...
Mallon has been affiliated with Southwestern for the past six years. As an undergraduate at Dennison son College, he sold books and became a student manager. Although the managers receive no salary from the company, they receive a percentage of the total sales their recruiters make Mallon says if he doesn't feel a student is working he sends them home but adds that the attrition rate of his teams has gradually improved each year After college he became a full-time, salaried district sales manager for the company. Saving enough money, he was able to pay his way through...
However, Boston College allows Southwestern to recruit through its career planning office, and this year 26 B.C. students are planning to join. John Steel, director of career planning at B.C., says. Steel explains that the company has a fine reputation but adds that problems with student managers sometimes develop. With the high turnover of personnel. Steel says relationships with recruiters differ each year, adding that last year Southwestern wasn't sponsored because recruiters didn't stay in contact with the school. Galloway says the recruiters' independent relationship to Southwestern contributes to the problems because there is no one overseer...
Tufts' student employment agency was founded last year, and Director Bernard Pakala contacted other campuses in the area to learn about Southwestern. He discovered that it "wasn't well liked" and was skeptical because recruiters didn't seem to try "to weed out the non-salesmen...
Although he heard many complaints about the recruiting practices of Southwestern. Yale's Noise says he allows the company to recruit on campus. "I heard horror stories about the aggressive sales organization, but if people join with their eyes open they should be all right." Noise adds that if a student can succeed in that rigorous program, "you can succeed in a more gentile marketing management program when you graduate...