Does that mean that more counseling is now necessary to address salary negotiation?
A lot of students want to know how to evaluate their job offers. They want to know how to compare salary vs. job content. Dollars are one thing, but many students are starting to evaluate other things as well. For example in this year’s national survey, students ranked job responsibility, company culture, long-term career opportunities, industry type, lifestyle, and people met on the job above compensation. Furthermore, 50% of the 10 schools surveyed in the 1998 national survey said that they would not take the highest offer, opting instead to go to the job that was most interesting to them. Does everybody get a summer internship who wants one? On average, what percentage of the student body garners an internship? For us this year, for the first time, 100% of the class has a summer internship. Is the internship something you encourage every student to take advantage of? Absolutely. One of the reasons it’s so important is because of that 75% of the class who are making a career change.
