"It seems like the College is trying to make some incremental changes to provide students with more opportunities to learn about public service," Simmons said. "But the College is still vastly under-serving and vastly under-challenging its students."
According to Judy Murray, Recruiting Program Director for OCS, the Career Forum will be more diverse than in past years, but not as varied as she had hoped.
In order to increase the number of opportunities available this year, Murray sent out letters to 70 different new companies inviting them to the forum, but only two responded.
Instead of having 20 to 30 new companies present as she had hoped, the forum will feature five to 10 additions. The forum will feature over 140 companies, and is expected to draw over 2,000 students
But Murray added that she has seen an increase in government job recruiters coming back to campus, and that the number of computer science and Internet companies represented has doubled this year.
According to Mark G. Heiman '00, President of the Harvard Investment Association, the forum is "a pretty good section of what the real world is like and what people from Harvard will end up doing."