Crisis aside, UCS no haven for grads
Carlos Francisco Fernandez ’08 never intended to contact Undergraduate Career Services after graduation — at least until Lehman Brothers, where Fernandez worked in natural resources, filed for bankruptcy.
The Yale graduate called UCS on Monday, Sept. 15, the day Lehman went down.
“They gave me an appointment as soon as possible,” he said.
Few alumni interviewed for this story said they would think to take advantage of UCS after graduation. But UCS Director Philip Jones said students can participate in Yale’s on-campus-interview program up to one year after...
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By (Anonymous)
7:16p.m. on October 1, 2008
People might not be going to UCS simply because it sucks.
George Patsourakos
It appears to me that the Undergraduate Career Services Office needs an additional career counselor -- or one of its current counselors to focus more on Yale alumni. When I read that alumni are writing letters to the Yale College Dean because the UCS is mainly concerned with four areas -- med/law school, consulting, and IBanking -- and less concerned with the other academic areas, I become nauseated. Moreover, the fact that many alumni have noticed that UCS is more concerned with helping current students than alumni needs to be remedied. The bottom line: Career counselors need to assist all Yale students and alumni equally, regardless of the student's major field of study; to provide less assistance to students majoring in certain fields -- or to alumni -- violates the professional ethics that career counselors must value!