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OPINIONS
[ Wednesday, Nov. 7, 2001 ]

Letter to the Editor
Care needed in career services, recruitment

I am disturbed by the university's negligence regarding the identities of corporate recruiters on campus. During an interview last week, I didn't get a business card from my interviewer. I went back to the McAllister Interview Center to find out the correct spelling of her last name so I could write a follow-up letter, but was appalled to find that the only record the office had of the recruiter was an illegible signature on a sign-in sheet.

To date, no university office has any other record of the recruiter who interviewed me on November 1. At this rate, it seems anyone who can put on a suit and scribble a name in the sign-in book is free to collect confidential information about students.

The rest of the nation is heightening security by taking extra time to do background and identity checks -- and so should Career Services.

Karen Thyng
senior-management science and information systems
 



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