<p>“I don’t think someone even needs the excuse of heavy loans or severe financial hardship to justify doing what is best for himself professionally, within certain limits. This isn’t like dumping your boy-next-door prom date when the football captain asks you a week later. The job you get after graduation can have a major impact on both your immediate life and future prospects.”</p>
<p>I agree. We keep telling kids not to have a “dream college” and let their career and future life be their “dream”. It seems crazy to force someone into a job when a better offer comes by.</p>
<p>BTW…what exactly does this Honor Code require? does it require that you work at least for 12 months for the company? Or can you work for a week and then quit? If so, then it’s a lame HC. </p>
<p>I liken this to being engaged. You’re “committed to marry” the person, but if you realize before the “I do’s” that someone else would be a better spouse/match, then break the engagement. </p>
<p>I would imagine the agreement between the career center and student is “Once you have accepted an offer you must notify all other companies you have applied to and you must stop interviewing.” The student didn’t have to use to the career center to get a job, but if he did then he needed to abide by their agreement. </p>
<p>I don’t see this as any different than to expect someone who is engaged to stop dating and looking for someone better.</p>
<p>If the agreement is that one will stop INTERVIEWING after receiving and accepting an offer, and the INTERVIEW at B has already been held, then dropping A for B would not be a violation.</p>
<p>Since not every company is recruiting at the school, and the student may be at an OOS school, many students can’t even interview at a hometown company until after graduation. </p>
<p>So, what happens if the student is supposed to start at Company A a couple of weeks after graduation, but interviews at a hometown company right after graduation and is offered a better job? Don’t see how a HC could do a dang thing to the student. Doesn’t the HC end the moment the student graduates? Or am I missing something. </p>
<p>The concern here is whether the student would be expelled due to violation of HC. Once the student has his diploma he could do what he wants, if it meets his own ethic.</p>
<p>After having once lost a job after two days because they found someone cheaper (I kid you not), I have very little sympathy for employers who lose employees to higher wage employers. </p>
<p>This discussion has come up before, and it’s always baffled me how most people’s opinions here differ from what is listed in college’s career services websites.</p>
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[quote]
Never accept an offer and continue looking for additional opportunities. This strategy is considered an egregious breach of ethics, and can seriously harm your reputation in
your chosen field. Employers in competitive fields worry about this practice to the extent that it is not
unheard of for a firm to rescind an offer if they find out that you have already accepted one from
another organization.<a href=“from%20Harvard%20http://www.ocs.fas.harvard.edu/students/materials/job_offer.pdf”>/quote</a></p>
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Accepting an offer is a commitment to the employer. Reneging on an offer could be seen as an ethical and possibly legal violation of that commitment. If you are not ready to make that commitment, do not accept the job offer. GECD considers reneges undertaken in any but the most dire circumstances a serious ethical breach. Doing so may result in the forfeiture of your right to participate in any additional campus recruiting. <a href=“from%20MIT%20http://gecd.mit.edu/jobs/find/apply/campus_interview/policies”>/quote</a></p>
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Reneging on an offer (i.e., accepting an offer, changing your mind and then rejecting it) is both unacceptable and unprofessional; doing so damages your professional reputation, the reputation of Yale alumni employed by that organization and, of course, the reputation of Yale University.<a href=“from%20Yale%20http://ucs.yalecollege.yale.edu/content/job-offers”>/quote</a></p>
<p>Most of the consequences just ban the student from using career services, and I haven’t seen anything about an honor code violation though.</p>
<p>While I do consider it wrong to accept a job offer and then continue your search as if nothing had changed, it seems to me that surely there are circumstances in which not withdrawing from all other opportunities is OK in absolute moral terms, even if industry standards or specific policies prevent it.</p>
<p>Jobs aren’t so easy to come by these days. Turning down a less than ideal option with no guarantee that you will get anything better is crazy. But I don’t think you should be wedded to that agreement to the point where you couldn’t accept a vastly superior opportunity that came along. Yes, saying “I signed with good NYC firm, but now I’m going to interview with somewhat better NYC firm” is selfish. But what if it’s “I took a mediocre job in Akron (where I have no desire to live) because nothing else had come through, but now I’m holding an offer from a fantastic job in LA”?</p>
<p>Does the company have any obligation to keep you for a certain span of time just because they hired you? Would the company be legally liable if they had to downsize before you ever started working and no longer had a job to give? If the answer to these questions is no, I don’t see why the employee should have a greater obligation than the employer. </p>
<p>If you are in an industry where you will be blackballed for doing this, obviously you don’t have much of a choice. Short of that, as long as the switch isn’t made lightly or frivolously, I think a college is being awfully high-handed in so categorically discouraging the practice, let alone making it an HC violation.</p>
<p>“having once lost a job after two days because they found someone cheaper (I kid you not), I have very little sympathy for employers who lose employees to higher wage employers.”</p>
<p>Exactly. My sister had an employer call her shortly before she was to start working and she was told that the funding for that job had been lost, so …no job.</p>
<p>A friend of mine started a job and was doing very well. But then the company had to do a 10% reduction and since she didn’t have her 90 days in, she was “out”. </p>
<p>“Never accept an offer and continue looking for additional opportunities. This strategy is considered an egregious breach of ethics, and can seriously harm your reputation in
your chosen field”</p>
<p>Scare tactics being used on naive students who don’t realize that most fields don’t compare notes that well…especially if that other job is in another region of the country. </p>
<p>Young folks can be very naive…as we’ve seen by some questions here on CC (do other schools know where I’ve been accepted? Do schools know that I applied for aid at some schools, but not others? Do schools know that I applied for a different major at other schools?)</p>
They have such policy with employers to protect those naive students.</p>
<p>The student didn’t have to use the center’s services. He could have searched for jobs on his own then he wouldn’t have to adhere to any agreement/policy. One can’t always have it both ways.</p>