Word: summer
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...Alvin Bowles, the senior vice president of integrated marketing at BET Networks. According to Wells, Bowles initially told her, “Sorry, we’re not hiring,” but she continued e-mailing and calling before finally securing an internship in New York City the summer after her graduation. Wells called the current economic conditions a “great opportunity,” forcing job-seekers to be more flexible than in times past. “This pushes students to think outside the box,” she said. “E-recruiting...
...students who depend on certain OCS resources during July—including the Harvard Business School 2+2 program applicants, students on fellowships expecting checks in the mail, and graduate students writing dissertations—would still receive these services. Additionally, undergraduate interns who unexpectedly find themselves without a summer job could still rely on OCS for impromptu bailouts. But what OCS does not anticipate doing, according to Mount, is laying off employees. Instead, she has spearheaded an effort to seek consensus among the OCS staff to determine how to best cope with expected budget cuts. Mount referenced the president...
...Most importantly, this embarrassment with the party alienates allies from other schools. Imagine you’re at a College Republicans’ summer conference in Washington, D.C. You’re chatting with students from more conservative campuses when one of them calls George W. Bush his hero. You cringe—you liked Bush, but not that much—and the others roll their eyes: They think you’re a New York Times-reading, sushi-eating liberal...
...said. “The economy’s sinking, and we weren’t surprised,” Mount said. Students shared similar sentiments about the shrinking job market. Tracy L. Meng ’10 said she secured an internship with a consulting firm this summer, but said that this year’s job process had been especially difficult. “It’s been tough, and I’ve been grateful to have an offer,” she said. “I think that eRecruiting is one of the most...
...classic methods of studying headaches involve comparing the number of people coming into emergency rooms for headache-related causes in the winter as opposed to the summer, or to ask patients to keep diaries. But these methods don’t necessarily illustrate the triggers of headaches...