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...into the recruiting track know that they want a career in business, others do not share that same certainty. For this set, the idea of a job that is structured around the two-year commitment typical of an analyst or associate is appealing. According to OCS Director Bill Wright-Swadel, students are eager to work for companies “who are not going to be upset that after two years [that they] want to move...
...hand, upperclassmen flock in droves to recruiting events to schmooze, learn about prospective careers, and hopefully pick up a few business cards along the way. Around 1,100 students are currently participating in the on-campus recruiting program, according to Director of the Office of Career Services [OCS] William Wright-Swadel. Before the end of the year, that number is likely to swell to 1,600 or more as curious sophomores and freshmen, in search of internships and information, jump into the mix, he added. “It’s seductive,” Wright-Swadel said...
...improving, many companies are finally growing, resulting in increased job openings,” she added. Employers expect to raise starting salaries by 3.7 percent in order to attract enough college graduates to fill the increasing positions, according to Koncz. The director of the Office of Career Services, William Wright-Swadel, could not be reached for comment yesterday. Ivan Z. Corwin ’06 said he has already experienced the effects of this favorable job market. The math concentrator plans to work for a hedge fund for a year before attending graduate school...
...websites. OCS warned that they had reason to believe that potential employers were logging onto such websites to gain additional information about job applicants. “As much as anything, it was prompted by conversations we were having with employers and graduate schools,” says William Wright-Swadel, the Director of OCS. “We found out that one of the tools they were using to evaluate candidates was information students were posting on the internet on websites such as Facebook.”Hughes disagrees with Wright-Swadel about the prevalence of employers using Facebook...
...Most students say they need accounting skills to compete for jobs with graduates from other schools. But Director of Harvard’s Office of Career Services Bill Wright-Swadel said that the lack of an accounting course at the undergraduate level does not put Harvard students at a disadvantage once they get on the job market...