Students search the Web for their first real jobs
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The World Wide Web has become a job search tool for recent college graduates, often assisted by campus career centers which post student resumes on college Web sites. Grads themselves use the Web to find prospective employers and submit resumes. Students with degrees in the information sciences seeking jobs in high technology use it most often and derive the greatest benefit. Liberal arts majors benefit less. They often seek work in sectors with fewer openings and less reliance on the new technologies. Using the Web to submit resumes is not as easy as many are lead to believe. To assure that automated filters do not reject a resume, students must choose keywords that programs may be written to search for. Some graduates express concerns over the impersonal nature of the evolving process.
Publication Name: The New York Times
Subject: Business, general
ISSN: 0362-4331
Year: 1999
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Click here for the Ivory Tower
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Unext.com's Cardean University is affiliated with the University of Chicago, Columbia University, Carnegie Mellon University, Stanford University, and the London School of Economics and Politics. Michael Milliken, through his Knowledge University, has invested, but the subsequent partnership agreements with schools sets the limit to his participation at a 20 percent nonvoting interest. Unext.com sees students in other countries seeking a U.S. education, but not wanting to relocate, as its best market. Some professors are skeptical about the quality of education delivered online. Other supporters of campus-based learning wonder if students will be able to form the contacts among their peers that will serve them in the pursuit of their chosen field.
Publication Name: The New York Times
Subject: Business, general
ISSN: 0362-4331
Year: 1999
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Editor explores unintended, and negative, side of technology
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Stephen L. Talbott publishes criticism of technology and computers on the Web. He was formely an editor of Perl programming books at O'Reilly and Associates. He is the author of 'The Future Does Not Compute.' His newsletter, NetFutures, has 4,500 subscribers. He believes we shouldn't unquestioningly accept the growing role of computers in modern life.
Publication Name: The New York Times
Subject: Business, general
ISSN: 0362-4331
Year: 1999
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