college/grad school career services offices: run-of-the-mill dud or toxic overflowing septic-tank dud?

I disagree. Mine sucks hairy caribou balls.

as i said on another thread. today, i called my law school career services office because i am looking to change my job, and i wanted them to either look at my resume or tell me if they could hook me up with anyone that would be looking for someone with my experience. i was essentially told to go pound sand because they're too busy setting up on-campus interviews for this year's bunch of law review/A students. i should've known better, since career services were a bunch of useless assholes even when i was a student myself. they always catered to the law review types -- because career services people are lazy fucks, getting people into big firms paying big $$$ is a revenue maker, and they're snobs towards mere "B" students.

why the fuck should career services even exist at all, if they don't help the people who most need help?

Or at school: we did loads of aptitude tests and stuff, then had a consultation about results. Kids doing arts/humanities A-levels were told to join the army, those doing sciences were told to be engineers, except for me and I think two others who were told that we could do anything we wanted! How helpful!

The career counselor for alumni at my alma mater actually gave me a lot of help!

where did you go to school, am?

mine wouldn't offer much service if you'd been out of school for a year.

fat lotta help they were when i lot my job three months into it...

UPDATE: the new director of career services called me an hour ago and apologized for the brusqueness with which i was treated earlier today. i will go in and talk with her two weeks from now (because of OCI), she will review my resume then, and give me any assistance that she can.

this was unexpected, and quite nice. i hope that it's a positive omen.

You gonna tell her about this thread?

I have a friend who just graduated from the school I think Tad went to, and I've heard very much the same things from her. That doesn't mean all schools are bad.

well there are no secrets on ILX anyway, gabb :-) -- i went to rutgers-newark law. is that where your friend went? the education there was good, just not the career services office.

i shouldn't complain too much -- not just because it's whiny, but because i've been relatively fortunate (i do have a job, after all).

I'm fairly sure I could make a phone call and get an internship pamphleting for the rights of hairy moose balls, so possibly Hampshire wins.

Actually, Hampshire is pretty good for networking among alumni rather than through career services, probably because everyone comes through somewhat dazed and looking at the bill from the last four years. When I moved to New Orleans -- to finish my Bachelor's, mind you -- I turned down a teaching job at a private school to do so, cause Hampshire alumni were the ones running the school. That's fucked up, but I think I have to put it in the actual-benefits-from-Hamp column for once.

UNO's career services was practically nonexistent, cause most of the students were either basically still high school students (still living with parents, etc) or part-time students who already had full time jobs.

IU has some sort of complicated database type thingie online which you access with your student ID and so forth, but it seems geared more towards finding kids summer internships than finding graduates employment.

Oh, I lie, I lie: "four years" ... that should've read "seven," obviously.

yes, same school. i always thought she was just imagining things.