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Post by crusader99 on Feb 8, 2019 19:36:03 GMT -5
As a parent of a graduating senior, the one area in need of drastic improvement is the career placement. Students graduating with economic degrees, that we know, from Nova, ND, BC and PC have mostly secured employment. While most of my child’s HC friends and peers (most Economists majors with 3.3-3.5 gpas) are still searching. the basic instruction from career placement is to randomly email HC alumni without any insight into who to direct the outreach or whether the recipient is in a position to help or is expecting a student outreach. One counsel suggested searching indeed.com or retain a head hunter. There is virtually no on-campus recruiting or direction. With an economy at or near full employment, this has been a terrible end to an otherwise enjoyable college experience. After $280K, more is expected.
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Post by sader1970 on Feb 8, 2019 20:00:28 GMT -5
Very surprised to read this. td128 has led a mentoring program for football players for years with some great success. I have personally worked with the Career Development people to try to get students interested in the large and varied careers in the insurance industry and, in fact, our Holy Cross Insurance Professionals group have had 3 networking events during Homecomings, most recently in January. In fact there are careers available for any major within the Insurance industry. Trying to get the students to go on a Saturday morning is even harder than getting them to go all the way up hill to the Hart Center for a basketball game. Reminds me of the joke of the guy praying to God about why he hasn't won the lottery despite his repeated prayers. One day he hears a voice from the clouds "Meet me half way . . . . BUY A TICKET!" I have personally worked with students and given them career advice, most recently of a senior economics major who wants to become an insurance actuary. I have put him in touch with a fairly young alum who is a Actuarial Director located right in Worcester. The students, especially the juniors and seniors need to attend the kinds of events that the career development people have on campus, including our group. No one is going to just hand them a job. As I tell the students I meet and counsel: "NETWORK, NETWORK, NETWORK!" They have plenty of tools at Holy Cross and perhaps the best alumni network in the country. They have to show some initiative to connect. Try these: HOLY CROSS INSURANCE PROFESSIONALS (HCIP) LINKS OF INTEREST Why college graduates should pursue a career in insurance? Insurance Institute of Insurance video: Information and Communications about HCIP LinkedIn link to Holy Cross affinity group: www.linkedin.com/groups/8559327Joining the HCIP group Interest link to Holy Cross affinity group (Holy Cross site): www.alumni.holycross.edu/s/1380/15/indexnonav.aspx?sid=1380&gid=1&pgid=3019&cid=6118Holy Cross Insurance Professionals Message Board Posts and messages about and for the group as well as available job openings open to all registered members: hcinsprofessionals.freeforums.net/ |
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Post by crusader99 on Feb 8, 2019 20:45:39 GMT -5
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Post by alum on Feb 11, 2019 8:36:11 GMT -5
As a parent of a graduating senior, the one area in need of drastic improvement is the career placement. Students graduating with economic degrees, that we know, from Nova, ND, BC and PC have mostly secured employment. While most of my child’s HC friends and peers (most Economists majors with 3.3-3.5 gpas) are still searching. the basic instruction from career placement is to randomly email HC alumni without any insight into who to direct the outreach or whether the recipient is in a position to help or is expecting a student outreach. One counsel suggested searching indeed.com or retain a head hunter. There is virtually no on-campus recruiting or direction. With an economy at or near full employment, this has been a terrible end to an otherwise enjoyable college experience. After $280K, more is expected. I don't know have an opinion regarding how the career placement office does relative to other schools and when you limit it to just economics majors, I suspect that it is really hard to compare. I do know that if you are talking about jobs with the big financial services firms that the key there is through internships. I am not sure how well HC is doing getting kids into those programs. FWIW, the kids I know who have graduated from HC in recent years are working, attending professional schools, or preparing to attend professional schools since so few go right away from any schools these days. Attached is the report for the class of 2017. www.holycross.edu/sites/default/files/files/outcomes/2017outcomesreport.pdfThe results are pretty good--especially the close to 10% that are heeding the Jesuit call to be men and women for others. I also know, from having five kids, that sometimes our children are not as forthcoming about their own efforts as we would like them to be. My wife is hectoring our fourth child who is a senior anthropology and economics major at a smaller Catholic New England liberal arts college about looking for a job and while he says all of the right things, I am not sure how much he is getting done.  Oh, and a GPA in the 3.3-3.5 range is not, like it or not, anywhere near the top of the class so students with grades like that are not likely to get the best internships or jobs. Another idea---get a job in Advancement or Admissions at a big state university and get a free MBA or other degree while putting some money away and learning how to be a good employee. One of my kids did that and has landed a very cool job in Boston after those efforts. He also accumulated a ton of airline and hotel points which he is still using. He's at Whistler this week with a bunch of buddies. |
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Post by lou on Feb 11, 2019 9:11:27 GMT -5
There are HC alums in hiring positions on Wall St. Students need to find them (HC has a list) and make contact in a timely manner. I have heard stories about managers being contacted by students for summer internships, but months before the summer jobs open up. Problem is they should have been contacted the previous year. BTW, the Ivies have this figured out and those kids get most of the jobs. HC has a lot of work to do in this area.
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Post by WCHC Sports on Feb 11, 2019 9:59:19 GMT -5
I personally thought that it was tough to take advantage of the programs when I was a graduating senior. Either I did poor research/preparation, or HC didn't make it easy enough. My guess? Probably the former.
All I can do now is volunteer my time as an alumni professional mentor, and hopefully push folks to take advantage of whatever they can-- Crusaders for others!
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