Douglas Hsu GS
I think the career services are unbelievable and the people are really amazing. They do everything that they can to make sure that it's easy for students. And just for me personally, talking to Barbara (Peoples) and Laura (Joshi) and Nancy, the people who are here, has definitely helped me out with the process and they've been very supportive.
Olivia Olsen '08
I was so frustrated with career services I hired my own external career counselor, who did basically the same thing career services would have done but on a more individual basis and I got one-on-one attention with that.
I've found more job information by doing Google searches than by navigating the career services Web site. I frequently just look at other school's career services Web sites - including my state school's, which is actually featured on Brown's Web site as, like, the number one career networking Web site, which is hilarious It's really disheartening that I left state schools for this."
Annie Koo '08
I don't know, I haven't had much experience with career services. I feel like their focus has been mainly on people who are going into finance or consulting, which I'm not at all interested. And that's all the e-mails I ever get from them, so I don't really go to their events that much. I went to the Senior Meeting at the beginning of the year but I haven't done anything about it since.
I went once to review my resume and cover letter but that's about it. That was helpful; I got some good feedback. Maybe if I went there and really asked around, did my own work trying to find what I want to find that would be helpful in some way, but from what I've seen so far it's all about finance and consulting.
Dennis Kozee '10
"I think it's a really capable and helpful organization on campus. I think that a lot of people don't realize the kinds of questions that are appropriate there sometimes. It seems like a lot of people are in the dark about that kind of thing. But it really is solid, it's just kind of a shame that people don't use it.
To the extent that (people say Career Services focuses on finance and consulting), is just to the extent that you can say there are a lot of students at Brown who are interested in finance and consulting. There are a lot of firms that come to campus because there are a lot of students here that want to do that but that doesn't mean if you go in there with career woes, I guess, outside of finance or consulting that they can't or won't help you...
They still have helpful things to say in terms of pursuit of careers by students individually, on a case by case basis, with respect to whatever career that they want to do."
