Whats the role of Stanfords CMC Committee?
It’s a group of about 12 students who meet every week to talk about the key issues that students are worried about. They make sure that the CMC and the student clubs are working together to help students find the career of their dreams. For instance, there can be tension in the recruiting process if students accept a job and then renege. Or perhaps a company rescinds a job offer. Generally, students don’t like talking about it. And sometimes when I talk about it, I sound a bit overbearing. So the committee took the responsibility for talking to the students about it. And we’ve had very few students renege this year — fewer than you can count on one hand, and fewer than in the past. Also, last summer, we had a student do a study of recruiters, interviewing the recruiters to find out how students could do better. We got feedback that MBAs weren’t as prepared as they should be for interviews. The student turned the research into a presentation that the committee took out to the student c
