> Students are foolish to IGNORE the realities of the job
market for their majors as we assume more debt.
> College doesn't teach networking.
> College doesn't teach employable skills. Theory AND
Practice.
> Students don't have realistic expectations of their first
jobs after college.
> Even a little investment or initiative in learning
something practical - like SQL, Drupal, or Sharepoint -
can go a long way to opening doors to jobs students
actually want.
> Not everyone needs to be a business or engineering major,
but we, as a students, need think about life after
college more seriously than we have.
I'm a business major in a top 10 undergrad b-school now and they still don't teach networking unfortunately.
They just throw networking and recruiting info sessions DAILY, but they don't teach you how to network. They don't teach you how to explore your passions and interests, research companies working on those kinds of problems, and how to approach them for internships, jobs, etc.
Business schools succeed when they send a lot of students to corporations, so that these corporations come back and sponsor programs and stuff for the B-School. If you're interested in other jobs besides corporations, you have to find them yourself!
Sounds like they're teaching it "trial by fire." My undergrad and grad EE days: 12-hour workdays (nights?) in a dungeon-like room.
I often say to mentored students: engineering is 80% banging your head against a wall, 10% cursing, and 10% progress. It's a long, hard slog to become an expert. Daily networking events sounds like that to me (and frankly, even more unpleasant!)
> Students confuse avocation with vocation.
> Students are foolish to IGNORE the realities of the job market for their majors as we assume more debt.
> College doesn't teach networking.
> College doesn't teach employable skills. Theory AND Practice.
> Students don't have realistic expectations of their first jobs after college.
> Even a little investment or initiative in learning something practical - like SQL, Drupal, or Sharepoint - can go a long way to opening doors to jobs students actually want.
> Not everyone needs to be a business or engineering major, but we, as a students, need think about life after college more seriously than we have.