As career week culminates today at the Career Forum, I have resigned myself to a future of unemployment. I might as well start collecting the checks. When the glossy, black Introduction to Career Week landed in our mailboxes last weekend, I already began to feel the dread.
For someone with no interest in business, there are apparently few
openings in today's job market. According to this book, this week's
panels, and in fact, Harvard's
entire vocational ideology, a job in media means serving as an analyst at
Walt Disney. A job in public service: Associate Analyst for a non-profit consulting firm. A job in entertainment: assistant analyst of a production company. A job in technology: e-commerce analyst for a local start-ups.
Let's cut the QRR bullshit and rename the new core department, Future Analyst Reasoning Requirement. Even the book itself allows gimmicky advertisements from Mckinsey, Trilogy and Credit Suisse more than half its pages (earning HSA a pretty penny), creating a future business person's "little green book." (This is the Harvard student's
equivalent to Mao's "little red book").
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