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PI/PS Day Blues

By Bekki

Despite all the criticisms of CDO that I've seen here, I've been offering them the benefit of the doubt since August. When a meeting with one of the counselors didn't answer any of my questions, I figured it was just that I hadn't known what to ask. Now, after PI/PS Day, I'm about ready to give up on the CDO.

Let me start by saying that some of the problems I encountered with PI/PS Day were my own fault. Instead of submitting resumes to the employers through both the online system and individually, I just did them online. I also only submitted resumes to a few employers, instead of the 15 or 20 or 40 that some people did. It would have been nice, however, if the CDO had told us that the employers had a strict quota system, accepting a set number of student interviews from each school, and that some employers, like the EBCLC, wouldn't accept Boalt interviews at all.

Then there was the logistical aspect of it. The waitlist table wasn't really a "waitlist" per se. It was a first come, first served set up, where you had to haunt the table if you wanted a spot at one of the popular groups. Meet the advocates was a little better. The two sessions were held in large, crowded rooms. Some of the advocates didn't even show up. Others were only there for a short time. There wasn't much of a chance to have a real conversation, since at any given time there was almost always a crowd around each table.

I'm curious if anyone actually got a job offer on the spot through Meet the Advocates. For that matter, I'm curious as to how many people got offers right after an interview.

Full post as published by Nuts & Boalts on February 11, 2008 (boomark / email).