Re:Brown University raising $120M to eliminate all student l...
by pc86 on Wednesday November 29, 2017 @02:20PM
(#15809918)
And it's horrible. At my alma mater this person was in charge of helping kids who were finishing their degrees find gainful employment. Some kids who came from poverty, were getting the first degree in their family, and finally they had a shot at an upper middle class lifestyle. And they're supposed to get advice from some schlub whose entire resume is "B.A., [Liberal Arts School You've Never Heard Of]" then "Career Services Officer, [Same School]"? I think of the ridiculous advice he gave me ("GPA is incredibly important for your resume even 20 years after you graduate" and "Put hobbies and interests on your resume that show you're a well rounded person!") and shudder to think of the nonsense he was telling people who didn't know any better.
This happens a lot at universities. They are great places to work if you're OK with an "adequate" salary (with generally very good benefits and time off) and not being held accountable for very much. So you have staff people who have worked there for decades, if not their entire careers. Often entire families (parents and eventually their children) will be working there. Those sorts of people have no understanding of what the "real world" or private sector is like, so the problem of low productivity and low accountability perpetuates itself. It's normal and they don't know anything else.