Q TIPS:
Quick and Quintessential Career & Job Tips
Job-hunting tips from the April 29, 2002 issue of
QuintZine.
Are you graduating with a "useless" degree? It all
depends on your perspective and self-image, said Dale
Dauten and Kate Wendleton when they advised a political
science grad who wrote to the syndicated columnists for advice.
"Who cares what your degree is in?" Dauten said.
"They're all 'useless,' and they are all valuable.
Do you really think that a 22-year-old with a degree
in management knows [a lot] about managing?
Recruiters on a college campus put a lot of emphasis
on school experience only because that's all most
applicants have to talk about." Added Wendleton:
"As for the degree, just say you majored in liberal
arts."
Student interest in public-service opportunities
is up, according to an ABC News report on the Class of 2002,
perhaps dually a product of the recession and a potential
wave of altruism since the Sept. 11 terror attacks. Teach for
America, the corps of recent college grads who teach in urban
or rural public schools, has seen a trebling of applications
since the previous year, officials say. The Peace Corps has
also seen a dramatic rise in inquiries -- about a one-third
rise in Sept.-Dec. 2001 from the same period the previous year.
It's worthwhile to keep volunteering or working in
public service in mind as an alternative to a job or grad school
right after college graduation.
One of the Internet's most innovative and popular
job/internship sites for new grads, Job Direct, has
closed down its operations. If you had a resume registered
on JobDirect, it may have been transferred to
TrueCareers, a Sallie Mae Company
engaged in college-level campus recruiting.
Are you graduating with a "useless" degree? It all
depends on your perspective and self-image, said Dale
Dauten and Kate Wendleton when they advised a political
science grad who wrote to the syndicated columnists for advice.
"Who cares what your degree is in?" Dauten said.
"They're all 'useless,' and they are all valuable.
Do you really think that a 22-year-old with a degree
in management knows [a lot] about managing?
Recruiters on a college campus put a lot of emphasis
on school experience only because that's all most
applicants have to talk about." Added Wendleton:
"As for the degree, just say you majored in liberal
arts."
