UCS little help in search for arts jobs
For the hundreds of Yalies looking for jobs in industries such as finance or consulting, the job search process is, though difficult, straightforward. A cover letter, on-campus recruitment fairs and an impressive interview can spell a success story. But for students looking for a career in the arts, the story is quite different.
Career counseling processes in the arts, both for undergraduate and professional art school students, require months spent building portfolios, preparing for auditions and organizing performances or exhibitions to showcase student work. While Undergraduate...
hear, hear!
oh, please, yale, just hear!
I found UCS to be useless in my day, so nothing has changed on this front. In many cases, the way to get hired is to be waiting outside in the hall when the organization is ready to hire. Now, of course, one should be the BEST choice waiting in the hall, but a super resume, dynamite portfolio, or heaps of raw talent don't help very much if you aren't aware of a possible job opening.
But since everything costs money in America, how to wait it out? Better to ask parents, friends for some "help" than to compromise early on and get on another path. Marry money -- seriously.
I can't believe UCS is still stuck in its old ways. Check out the complaints in this article from TWO years ago: http://www.yaledailynews.com/news/features/2007/11/05/ucs-may-underestimate-i-bankers-and-financiers-amo.print
UCS is embarrassing compared to the career sites of other top-tier schools. Their career sites have almost all the job postings available at UCS and much more, even in the spring and summer when recruiting slows down. Ultimately, I can't help but think that UCS' narrow-mindedness makes Yalies less competitive in the broader job market.
Give me a break. UCS tries to bring lots of companies to campus -- it just so happens that any idiot (not merely those with art degrees) can become a consultant.
ie: it makes the most sense to bring McKinsey because McKinsey will get 500 resume drops.
The graduate school careers office is about the same for anything that's "non-professor". They try to help, but they just don't know how.
I agree with #6. They tell you to research and network but have no information about where the jobs might be and how to find out about them.
"Marry money -- seriously."
Dean Stern once gave me the career advice: "Marry rich, and divorce young."
That's what he did (1st man in the USA to ever be awarded alimony by an ex-wife, and it was, I believe, to this day the largest amount from a woman to a man). Now he is a mizillionaire, he leads a giant design firm, and is the Dean of architecture at Yale!!! Congrats!!!
Take that headline and replace "arts" with "non-consulting." UCS is only helpful if you're pre-med, or want to do consulting or i-banking. The rest of us are on our own.