"… Not many students who go to ‘accepted student’ weekends stop by the career center when they are on campus. That is a mistake, said Robert Franek, author of The Princeton Review’s ‘Colleges that Create Futures.’
Although college admissions offices often laud their institutions’ career help, in a Gallup Poll only 16 percent of college students said their college career center was very helpful.
And students really need the help. Despite a sharp upturn in the nation’s employment in the last few years, the New York Federal Reserve reported this year that 43 percent of recent college graduates were ‘underemployed’ in jobs that did not require their college educations. That is a harsh reality when four years at a public university can cost over $100,000 and when the average student with loans has been leaving college with over $30,000 in debt.
To improve the odds of better career outcomes, experts provide this advice." …