The problem with graduates taking these menial jobs is that they feel they have to have something, anything to get by in the meantime. The problem is also that some of them lack confidence in their abilities. The greater problem here is the career services "help" process. These processes are written by higher ups who haven't worked in the trenches of Career Services. The CYA mentality of CS processes to avoid more lawsuits, leaves "career advisors" little time to actually assist graduates in finding jobs. Those advisors who do care about helping people find industry related work got out when they realized they were hired to do data entry 80% of the day to "CYA" for Ai. I'm speaking from personal experience. EDMC/Ai is all about business, as most companies are. Accept this before its too late. I urge you all to find a job elsewhere where you are allowed to make a difference in someone's life or, start your own company and make a difference in lives and create jobs as well.
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@IdtfDE0-dws You have no idea what you are talking about. HLC is a regional accreditor. The same accrediting body which provides most public universities with their accreditation. You will not be "shutting down" this agency with a few complaints about Ai. Some Ai schools hold HLC accreditation, but many use ACICS. Please get your facts straight before handing out advice.
Has anybody ever seen who works Career Services At South online? The biggest partying people who don't know their own name come the weekend. Its where ARs go to die.
Career Services is a joke at Ai. Fraud Clown blatantly told us to lie at Hollywood and LA to fudge the numbers, the lying weasel that he is. I hope he gets cancer of the clitoris.
At my AI Campus there was 4 career services persons to take care of our entire school. You could never arrange a meeting to go over resumes or interview tactics, and after a while... they stopped appointments with students and arranged an email only system. Two of them where around my age at the time, and had no schooling or experience with handling jobs. Of course I relied on my own search tactics and word of mouth most of the time but still wasn't even close to what was promised when i was applying... and knowing how it was alone would of persuaded me to go somewhere else.
@IdtfDE0-ujf here's another fact you forgot: Career Services claim that students "disappear" off the place of the planet after graduation, therefore unable to help them find a job. Uh no, besides the fact that they disappear due to debt, the students immediately reached out to career services after graduation, guess what? They can help you for up to 6 months, after that they move on to the next student. They say they will follow up with you on your 6th month, but on the first day of the 7th they just ignore until fired, guess they forgot to forward the "keep in contact" logs to the new people.
This is such bs...I own my job search. I have sent out tons of resumes and nothing. I've tried to use Career Services but the only jobs they had were part time jobs at Hastings or Walmart etc.
When I went to AI I was told that Career Services could help me find jobs in the industry, retail jobs are not industry jobs.
I'm now starting over at a real college, and "starting over" means just that since none of my AI credits can transfer (another lie I was told). All AI wants is $$$ to hell with the students.
"Career Services is amazing at our college. They help the students find work, rewrite resumes, help with websites and continue to make connection years after they graduated. I had a nephew who contacted them 4 years after his first position ended doing video production for a legal firm and they sent him some new leads for another position. The best employers have been graduates from our campus. Career Services has a good reputation in our area. However, most colleges/universities give you a diploma and say "good luck", they don't hunt down jobs, arrange interviews with employers and hand-hold you through the process graduates like AI does."
Ok, well sorry to say that the college scorecard and other stats don't really add up to what you are saying. I have heard from many students that their instructors and career services were so out of touch with what employers wanted to see, that they tell them information that runs contrary to what they should be. Recently, students that went on a field trip to Nickelodeon were shot down on each portfolio because they had been told to "put everything" in their portfolio in hopest that the recruiters would find something to like, rather than specialize the presentation to one specific focus. As a result, all students missed out on an opportunity because they were given bad information by people who should be paid to know better.
Sorry, but going over a phone interview, giving feedback, and shoveling craigslist and monster.com ads at students is NOT doing them a service.
We all know that career services true job is to find ways to get rid of the less talented students by finding them work at kinkos, and latching on to the gifted students who were able to excel despite the school's lack of legitimate higher ed. Career services often get by on having good smiles, being generally amiable to current students, being great at PR and behind the school 100% no matter what.
Once the current class is out the door, they do as much as necessary to keep them from getting too upset, but their focus is already on the next class not the ones whose money they have already fleeced.
It is like this at all Ai campuses
Career Services is amazing at our college. They help the students find work, rewrite resumes, help with websites and continue to make connection years after they graduated. I had a nephew who contacted them 4 years after his first position ended doing video production for a legal firm and they sent him some new leads for another position. The best employers have been graduates from our campus. Career Services has a good reputation in our area. However, most colleges/universities give you a diploma and say "good luck", they don't hunt down jobs, arrange interviews with employers and hand-hold you through the process graduates like AI does. So it is an mazing strength of the company. But students need to own the process of looking for a job. This helicopter approach to some students has left them with an entitlement ego that it is the college's responsibility to get them a job. They have to research potential employers, network, be creative on getting their foot in the door. Some Millennials want it on a silver patter or they just give up. Recently one of our grads took their parents to the job interview to negotiate the salary...obviously that interview needed quickly. We have to push them to embrace the process, believe in themselves and work hard at getting that first career position.
The truth is all schools fudge their numbers. Can't have a 30%< grad rate and low assjob placement rates. College is a joke .