Thread regarding University of Phoenix layoffs

to pile on the 'shitty example' here - here is a real life example - i work for a large it consulting firm, it's global. we hire 40 to 120 west coast new joiners every year. they get staffed in local offices, e.g., seattle, but can be on projects anywhere in the world. the hiring process is a production with three rounds of interviews, pre-screens, etc. since the hiring process is complex, we folow strict procedure, campus visits, pannels, prescheduled interviews, the whole shabang.... we pay top notch, the youngsters are very happy initialy (siutation changes once they realize that a 60 hr work week is a norn)... since hiring is a production we have to be smart about how we do things, this is industrial scale hiring process, we process over 1,000 candidates to end up with 100... so, folks graduating in may/june/july is the only pool we look into (rarely we'll make an exception, but things move fast and based on schedule it's hard to make exceptions)... since we do campus visits, advertising, etc. we cannot cover many schools, so we pretty much focus on 7 schools in california - berkeley, stanford, ucla, usc, uci, ucsd and claremont (most of the time)- so, if you are not in one of hte schools i listed, you are pretty much out of luck, you are being pushed thru a regular website recruiting channel where you competing with tens of thousands of applications for a handful of spots. most of top tier companies do similar things, focus on handful of campuses that typically yield good candidates, hit them hard and quickly and move on... now, we may agree or disagree on the education quality (shitty or not shitty ed) but when it comes to jobs there are schools that may help you launch a great career and schools that will do pretty much nothing for you...