Friday, February 1, 2013
IIT Overlooked at SET Career Fair?
If there is one thing I learned at last summer's internship with a global employer is that the other technical interns I met did not seem to be more qualified than me in terms of showing the ability to contribute to many goals of a company. I am not knocking the other technical majors however at this year's career fair, yet again it baffles me how some companies show up looking exclusively for Comp Sci majors or Engineering majors. I believe that employers should open the minds of the HR representatives they send to these fairs so that we can finally bypass that awkward moment when you go up to a company and they show subtle, if not obvious, disappointment or disinterest because they have a quota they must meet that only involves certain majors. If a student has significant technical aptitude then that student should be treated with the same applomb as engineering and comp sci students. I was brought to a recent interview session (along with two other IIT students) for a widely known company along with schools and majors from all over the country and our group stood out significantly during the problem solving parts of the interview. IIT majors may not prefer coding, but we have just as much technical potential as other majors and should be treated as such!
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