Well, it’s the interviewing season and December graduates are in the process of interviewing for jobs. The Career Development Center has always, in my opinion, been a great resource for the students at RPI. The people there are always very helpful.
I have, in the past, had good experiences with the various online tools that the CDC has had available for interviewing and job hunting. They simplify the process of finding work and are a valuable asset.
I wish I could say that I have had no problems, but my experiences this semester with the JobLink system have been very disappointing. I have had issues ranging from e-mail delays and problems, to the inability of employers to sign me up for interviews.
The issues that I have experienced have, at the very least, contributed to my missing at least one interview sign-up with a company that I wished to interview with. This is very disappointing to me because it destroys my faith in the system.
Now in the future, just to be sure, I will either have to make a lot of work for myself double checking the system to make sure that it’s working properly, or just disregard it entirely and conduct a job search on my own.
I hope that the CDC can either work out the problems that they are having with the JobLink system or replace it with a better one in time for the next round of interviewing in the spring semester. The folks at the CDC are a great bunch of people and I’d hate for them to get a bad wrap because of problems with online software.
