-I am disgusted with Rotman's education and career services. The school is outrageously expensive and an air of superiority pervades the faculty and student body, despite the fact that Ontario has been in a deep recession for the last 10 years. The career services center is utterly useless, unless you're looking for the chance to join a group counseling session to talk about job hunting. The school is very competitive, grading students on a bell curve, despite the fact that a bell curve cannot be applied to a student body of 180 or a class size of under 40. Many students at Rotman come from very wealthy and prominent Toronto-based families and are thus able to secure employment very easily. For the rest of us, it's a complete gamble. The school goes out of its way to appease those who are very wealthy and make large donations to the university, but everyone else is left to their own devices
-The single glaring weakness of the school is the career center for a number of reasons, all of which have very little to do with the economy. The most frustrating of these reasons is that the staff simply lacks any sense of urgency. While students are scrambling around trying to find jobs, the career center staff feel free to miss or come late to appointments and focus their efforts on easy tasks such as providing resume reviews, mock interviews and searching existing internet job boards and providing job links on the school career portal. All of this takes very little time and effort and I can do these things myself. It is clear that the incentives of the career centre staff are not aligned with the single most important activity that they could be providing students--finding companies that specifically want to recruit Rotman students. Unfortunately it doesn't appear that the school recognizes the severity of the issue despite feedback provided by students (we dedicated on class of our integrative thinking class to providing feedback to the head of the career center however none of this feedback was implemented). The dean's own comments on the matter: "We have acknowledged our challenges in the Corporate Connections Centre in the past and we have worked very hard to overhaul it, substantially ramping up our investment in that activity. While everything at the School can always be improved, I think it might be time to start seeing the CCC as a relative strength, not a weakness. Beating the US top ten is not a trivial accomplishment." Although I recognize the importance of benchmarking and also the dean placing importance on Rotman's rankings, calling the career centre a strength is a complete farce and is a slap in the face of students that have had to struggle hard to find jobs themselves due to the shortcomings of the career centre.
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发表于 2010-11-25 11:28:11
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