<p>how helpful are they?</p>
<p>Very helpful. I suggest that you stay in contact with them throughout your 4 years at Tufts.</p>
<p>i’ve heard that it’s hard to get help finding that kind of stuff at Tufts.</p>
<p>but their academic advising, at least what I saw in IR, is first rate.</p>
<p>so two contradictory opinions. from their website they seem ok</p>
<p>I don’t use them because for science related resources they’re not really good at all. So this is what my IR/econ friends tell me. Evidently they find career services to be pretty useless when it comes to internships and other job related activities. They don’t have many alumni connections and their internship listings are lacking. </p>
<p>From my experience, one of the things that career services/premed office has never bothered to do is to create a shadowing list of physicians for premeds. It would be pretty easy for them to do, but they’ve never bothered. I don’t know if that’s a reflection on career services, so take it as you will.</p>
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Yes take advice from a prefrosh</p>
<p>guildsman, career services in college will not find you a job like they might in certain grad schools, but they are very helpful in guiding you to one. You’d be surprised at the number of people who have extremely poor cover letters/resumes/interview skills. If you shore up those skills you will land jobs over people who are more qualified.</p>
<p>I can’t comment on what they should be doing, but from my friends experience (most of whom ended up getting internships by themselves) the services provided were severely lacking. I guess it completely depends on what you expect from them. But the shadowing thing is something they and the preprofessional advisers, for instance, could easily do.</p>
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Again, it’s very difficult for career services in college to find you a internship/job in your field because interests are so spread out across the student body. You’re going to have to wait until grad school to find career services like the ideal one you describe. Meanwhile your professors are a much better tool at building connections.</p>
<p>I do agree that the preprofessional advisers are severely lacking. I know at Princeton they actually hire someone to work on your application essays with you.</p>
<p>Well that’s probably because Princeton has an actual endowment, and people want to hire Princeton students.</p>
<p>According to wikipedia, Tufts has the 48th largest endowment of any university/university system (including UC’s/UT, etc) and there are only ~75 with endowments larger than $1 billion.
[List</a> of colleges and universities in the United States by endowment - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia](<a href=“http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_colleges_and_universities_in_the_United_States_by_endowment]List”>List of colleges and universities in the United States by endowment - Wikipedia)
So yes, Princeton has a much larger endowment. However, if employers were unwilling to higher Tufts graduates that would imply that they didn’t higher graduates of other schools considered less prestigious, which would mean we basically would have no economy. So, for the most part, people want to higher Tufts grads to more or less the same degree as Princeton grads.</p>
<p>That’s still small for a school at its academic level.</p>
<p>Not to be a prick… but hire, lol. Not higher.</p>
<p>Tufts is slowly growing… just wait another 20 years. We’ll get up there.</p>
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<p>are your trying to imply that people DONT want to hire Tufts students?</p>
<p>this whole argument is absolutely ridiculous, and i think that if you have so much trouble with the school and how it doesnt meet your standards of prestige/reputation/endowment, then why go in the first place?</p>
<p>well, because i liked it the most out of my options.</p>
<p>so someone’s gotta bad case of the infamous ivy envy.</p>
<p>I got a job. </p>
<p>It’s a pretty sweet job. Granted, Tufts hired me, so I doubt it proves any points one way or the other about who wants to hire Tufts grads, but it seems that I may be the only person with firsthand experience with Tufts career services, so:</p>
<p>My experience with them has been, literally, life changing. I’m still in touch with my career counselor from my senior year, Donna, on a regular basis (I just met with her last week, actually) and her perspective and advice has been invaluable to me. Donna, who I adore, worked with me on my resume, cover letters, networking contacts, prospective industry search, and other areas I’m sure I’m leaving off the list. I credit her wisdom with guiding me towards work in Higher Ed and her constant (and I do mean constant) help with my resume with landing me the interview. The interview, which is where I shine, is what landed me a job I genuinely love.</p>
<p>But here’s what career services doesn’t do: they don’t place you in a job. Nationwide, career services offices are trending away from job placement and trending towards teaching networking, self-advocacy, and other career relevant skills. This is part of an effort to give career services lifelong relevancy; rather than being useful only in your senior year and only for that first job, you should be able to return to them for counsel, support, and advice at any point in your life you feel ready for a change. Having the expectation of going to career services and scanning a list of job openings will lead to disappointment. But, then again, that’s what Monster.com is for.</p>
<p>good to hear from somebody with experience. </p>
<p>How is working for Tufts by the way? I’m probably going to have to find a job on campus so any perspective on that would be nice. I know working in the dining hall is mildly different from being on the adcom but still :)</p>
<p>and no, no ivy envy to whoever said that. I would have loved to go to brown but aside from that none of the ivys appealed to me. and dear god how i hate princeton dude. thats like my anti-school. not for me at all.</p>
<p>Regarding working at Tufts, there are usually lots of work study positions in the academic departments. Offices like chemistry and biology hire assistants and the library front desk is almost always staffed by students who do the check outs, reserves, etc. Working in the dining services area gives you opportunities ranging from cafes to dish washing rooms to student managers to serving at the food take out place (Hodgdon). Overall I haven’t really heard anyone complain about working and everyone is usually very friendly.</p>