Monday, September 24, 2007

Alum input still needed!

Thanks to all who agreed to help with our PG student-alum FAQ. We've received some great input from alums who graduated from one to forty years ago. We have not rolled out the material yet, as we still hope to gather a few more thoughts from our alums...

The more input we get from you, the richer a resource we have for our students as they think about life after college. The student generated questions we are working on are posted below. If you would like to contribute, you can email me an answer to any one of these questions, or I can send along the URL of where you can answer them online. Either way, we appreciate your help and look forward to hearing from you.

Student Questions:
  • Are there classes or course material you wish you had taken or taken more of at college?
  • What could I do with a law degree? What are the "right" reasons to go to law school--or the wrong ones?
  • If you went to graduate or law school, did you go directly from undergraduate? What are the trade-offs between waiting awhile or plunging right in after graduation?
  • How does one choose a graduate or law program that is right for you?
  • How does one recover or learn from a bad job or position or program?
  • If I'm interested in working in some internationally-focused job or career, how can I get my foot in the door?
  • What are the tradeoffs in working in the public versus the private sector?
  • Does it make more sense to go where you want to live and pursue a job there, or pursue the best job irrespective of where it's located?
  • It seems like many people really change what they want to do across their careers. If you did this kind of career shift, what was the impetus and how did you do it?