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...even with the general economic malaise and private sector hesitancy to hire, some bright spots still existed. For instance Wright-Swadel notes Microsoft ramped up its recruiting efforts this year, hoping to take advantage of the decline in demand for the most talented students...
...hope students with [career] dreams didn’t alter them without checking to see if they were possible,” Wright-Swadel says. “The reality is that [the current economic downturn] isn’t going to have a dramatic effect on long-term career options...
Twenty-five percent of Harvard College graduates traditionally head straight for graduate or professional school after Commencement. Wright-Swadel says this year’s statistics seem to be within a few percent of that average...
Instead of more seniors immediately continuing with school, Wright-Swadel suggests that the decline in the economy is causing students to spend less time out in the workforce after graduation—maybe only one or two years today instead of two or three years in the past—before continuing their studies...
...decreased pressure to go into a certain set of high-paying jobs has also led OCS to see an increase in the number of seniors thinking critically about their plans instead of just following what Wright-Swadel calls “the lemming effect” into consulting or I-banking...