Comments on: Career Centers in most universities are crap http://yukaichou.com/society/career-centers-universities-crap/ The Journey to Being Influential Sat, 21 Jan 2012 06:35:33 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: christie http://yukaichou.com/society/career-centers-universities-crap/comment-page-1/#comment-7977 christie Mon, 17 Oct 2011 21:00:25 +0000 http://yukaichou.com/?p=316#comment-7977 Like this post. It's a valid issue as schools cut back on career counselors. I went to see this cc at Au and she had been there for 25 years. She was wearing a mumu dress and was dressed for a day in the backyard. What I dislike is how they try to be helpful but then make you feel not so. After she deconstructed my resume (I had earned a masters but not at their university), she handed me this generic resume for an undergraduate for me to model my resume upon. Another issues is how some cc's play favorites. One fellow at Udc practically hinted that if we paid some seed money, it was a source of motivation. In fact, at that university, down to one ft counselor recently, all they really do is enroll you in CollegeCentral online. Some online services are better than others. At Cosd, last time I checked they had 89 jobs, at least 35 of which were for one particular hotel chain working as a hotel desk clerk in Fla. Apparently some outfits are really there to make money by sponsoring Job Fairs. When one is an older student (second career), minority asian, and female, they think there's something wrong with you. This is a placement, not a husband one is shopping for; but nevertheless they think you've got a history to overcome. What is amazing is that so few people complain. In fact, most just quietly disappear from campus. Maybe they don't want to get burned too often. Like this post. It’s a valid issue as schools cut back on career counselors. I went to see this cc at Au and she had been there for 25 years. She was wearing a mumu dress and was dressed for a day in the backyard. What I dislike is how they try to be helpful but then make you feel not so. After she deconstructed my resume (I had earned a masters but not at their university), she handed me this generic resume for an undergraduate for me to model my resume upon. Another issues is how some cc’s play favorites. One fellow at Udc practically hinted that if we paid some seed money, it was a source of motivation. In fact, at that university, down to one ft counselor recently, all they really do is enroll you in CollegeCentral online. Some online services are better than others. At Cosd, last time I checked they had 89 jobs, at least 35 of which were for one particular hotel chain working as a hotel desk clerk in Fla. Apparently some outfits are really there to make money by sponsoring Job Fairs. When one is an older student (second career), minority asian, and female, they think there’s something wrong with you. This is a placement, not a husband one is shopping for; but nevertheless they think you’ve got a history to overcome. What is amazing is that so few people complain. In fact, most just quietly disappear from campus. Maybe they don’t want to get burned too often.

]]> By: Yu-kai Chou http://yukaichou.com/society/career-centers-universities-crap/comment-page-1/#comment-2592 Yu-kai Chou Sat, 23 May 2009 04:33:35 +0000 http://yukaichou.com/?p=316#comment-2592 Yea. It's been 1.5 years already. I hope they're doing better now. Yea. It’s been 1.5 years already. I hope they’re doing better now.

]]> By: Yeyen Ong http://yukaichou.com/society/career-centers-universities-crap/comment-page-1/#comment-2591 Yeyen Ong Sat, 23 May 2009 04:30:24 +0000 http://yukaichou.com/?p=316#comment-2591 Interesting! That really sucks about the people at UCLA's career center, what crap! Interesting! That really sucks about the people at UCLA’s career center, what crap!

]]> By: Yu-kai Chou http://yukaichou.com/society/career-centers-universities-crap/comment-page-1/#comment-1847 Yu-kai Chou Sun, 04 Jan 2009 08:54:12 +0000 http://yukaichou.com/?p=316#comment-1847 Hey Emerson! Thanks for commenting. I totally agree with you. UCLA has so many resources(students) that are just lying around waiting to be used by them. They should really focus on making sure as many students get a great job instead of protecting their territory. Afterall, people go to college to find a better job. What use is there if the actual department that does that doesn't REALLY want to help? Hey Emerson! Thanks for commenting. I totally agree with you. UCLA has so many resources(students) that are just lying around waiting to be used by them. They should really focus on making sure as many students get a great job instead of protecting their territory. Afterall, people go to college to find a better job. What use is there if the actual department that does that doesn’t REALLY want to help?

]]> By: Emerson http://yukaichou.com/society/career-centers-universities-crap/comment-page-1/#comment-1843 Emerson Sat, 03 Jan 2009 01:32:49 +0000 http://yukaichou.com/?p=316#comment-1843 What an intriguing post! I find it mind-boggling that so many universities are in the same boat. I have been saying the same thing about the UCLA Career Center since I arrived on campus. I did not realize that they were trying to stomp down student groups from encroaching their territory. Unfortunately, UCLA's career center is quite lacking. I think they are definitely understaffed for the size of UCLA. I am personally not a fan of BruinView because I feel like the usability on the site is quite poor. I usually feel that the people at the UCLA career center will either not tell you anything of interest, or their advice is rudimentary. It is unfortunate that such a great school, has such a problem. The career center needs to take advantage of the talented students and work with them rather than against them. Between encouraging more floor programs and sponsoring student groups they could make do with their small staff. Teaching a dozen students some tricks and sponsoring them to lead seminars could create a terrific network that would continue to branch out. While their students are handling that work, they should be approaching businesses about posting jobs on Bruinview or speaking at events. There is not nearly enough breadth of businesses on BruinView and the number of talented UCLA students is tremendous. What an intriguing post! I find it mind-boggling that so many universities are in the same boat. I have been saying the same thing about the UCLA Career Center since I arrived on campus. I did not realize that they were trying to stomp down student groups from encroaching their territory.

Unfortunately, UCLA’s career center is quite lacking. I think they are definitely understaffed for the size of UCLA. I am personally not a fan of BruinView because I feel like the usability on the site is quite poor.

I usually feel that the people at the UCLA career center will either not tell you anything of interest, or their advice is rudimentary. It is unfortunate that such a great school, has such a problem.

The career center needs to take advantage of the talented students and work with them rather than against them. Between encouraging more floor programs and sponsoring student groups they could make do with their small staff. Teaching a dozen students some tricks and sponsoring them to lead seminars could create a terrific network that would continue to branch out. While their students are handling that work, they should be approaching businesses about posting jobs on Bruinview or speaking at events.

There is not nearly enough breadth of businesses on BruinView and the number of talented UCLA students is tremendous.

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