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Harvard Creates Managers Instead of Elites

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Iwalked alone into the Sheraton Hotel with fifteen resumes in a folder tucked under my arm and a dim sense of dread, ready to confront the Harvard Business & Technology Career Fair. The resumes were probably unnecessary. I was only a sophomore, but gnawing uncertainty about my career direction compelled me to browse my options for the future. “Hi!” A recruiter popped up next to me as I pressed my name tag to my chest. “Do you have any questions for us?” She held out a flyer and a free branded water bottle to me, and I stifled the urge to draw back. The flyer read, “We are a leading global professional services firm providing a broad range of risk, retirement and health solutions.” A description that failed to summon any enthusiasm. I flailed. “Yeah, what intern roles do you have available?” This is an exchange that I have enacted countless times: mustering polite interest in the same few companies with almost identical—frankly, uninteresting—job descriptions that recur at these fairs.

Kelly Sikkema/Harvard University I walked alone into the Sheraton Hotel with fifteen resumes in a folder tucked under my arm and a dim sense of dread, ready to confront the Harvard Business & Technology Career Fair. The resumes were probably unnecessary. I was only a sophomore, but gnawing uncertainty about my career direction compelled me to browse my options for the future. “Hi!” A recruiter popped up next to me as I pressed my name tag to my chest. “Do you have any questions for us?” She held out a flyer and a free branded water bottle to me, and I stifled the urge to draw back. The flyer r

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