I really hope this isn't true about Chicago.

corranged
Mon, 21 Apr 2008 14:49:58 +0000

Yeah, this isn’t true at all.

There are awkward students here. There are awkward students everywhere. There may be more here, I’m not sure, but if you have social skills now, it’s not as if they’re going to vanish when you come to school here. I go to the U of C, and I’ve had a lot of successful interviews. Actually, most of my interviewers have told me that I interview well and come across well because of the way I speak, act, and handle myself.

The U of C is obsessed with resumes. Students generally write their first professional resume during their first year. You need to have your resume critiqued by someone in the career office before you’re allowed access to our job search website (which is where you’d need to sign up for a career fair that required registration). The College asks for your resume constantly, and they’re very good at providing useful feedback.

Very few industries care all that much about major. It’s true that we don’t have an Accounting major or a Marketing major, but no one I’ve ever interviewed with has ever had an issue with that. I’ve heard many employers say they like the U of C because the students have such well-developed critical thinking skills from the core. If you’re looking at business, marketing, or any related field, they’re basically going to be looking at your ability to write and reason. I’m generally not interested in applying for jobs if the company specifies a particular major because it shows that the employer is focusing on the wrong things.

Also, people who lack social skills probably aren’t looking at PR careers, at least not in the types of numbers she suggested, and as JHS said, there certainly aren’t very many students with 3.9s.