Metropolitan Career Center

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Metropolitan College Career Center
With the pressure on the Career Center to meet organizational demands by increasing student placement in the job market, the center made a cut mark that students needed to attain to access the services at the center. For any student to gain access to essential services at the center, they had to achieve a 2.5 GPA for humanities and 3.0 GPA for the sciences (Damaske 12). As a result, other students were denied access to essential services that the center offered that would improve their chances of getting employed. These services did not tie directly to getting the best fits for jobs posted by the hiring companies. Services such as cover letter and CV writing as well as other job-hunting skills were only accessible to students that the center termed as “job-worthy.” These skills play an integral part in landing a job regardless of the GPA qualifications of the student. The students lacked access to the job postings that were inclusive of casual employment that they would qualify for if given a chance. The constrained access thus further diminished the chances of the non-PRP students to get any job.
The Career Center at Metropolitan faced several organizational challenges concerning on-campus recruiting and networking. The staff’s main task was attracting and increasing on-campus recruitment. On the other hand, the local hiring companies showed relative disinterest in Metropolitan and its students (Damske 8).

The board of directors pressed the center to bring “top hiring companies” on board. However, these companies were prejudiced against the Metropolitan students as they considered them to be lacking as compared to students from other neighboring universities. The hirers also suggestively implied that they preferred white female students and international students over their African-American and Latino male and female students. That was a problem for the staff at the center since the latter forms a more substantial part of the student population in Metropolitan than the former.

Work Cited
Damaske, Sarah. Brown Suits Need Not Apply: The Intersection Of Race Gender And Class In Institutional Network Building. 1st ed., Sociological Forum, 2009, pp. 8-12, Accessed 10 Dec 2018.