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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]You haven’t answered the question about major? Also truly empty resumes are rare. No on campus job or research or volunteering? [/quote]

What did he do all summer? He didn't volunteer or intern? He lived under your roof with no job and just relaxed and you paid for everything? And then he returned to school and didn't have a job or play sports or join clubs and you again, just paid for everything?

When I graduated from Williams over a decade ago there was a kid who I knew who was like this. He was very smart and a Econ major plus a national caliber athlete, but had no internship experience. His family hung out at their Lake House in New Hampshire all summer like it was the good old days and he just did that every summer instead of working. He was job searching in the middle of the financial crisis, so times were arguably tougher, but he did get a job around the time he graduated. He didn't get a job in a sought after destination though. He got a job at some company about 45 minutes west of Stamford, CT (not where you want to be geographically when you graduate from college). The good news is that now he is an SVP at a Fortune 50 and doing fine. Your son should try to use his connections to get his foot in the door since he doesn't have anything on his resume that will help him. He should also consider interning for a summer since he's missed out on this right of passage and doesn't have anyone who can vouch for the fact that he's a good worker. He's going to have a tougher path without a good GPA or a sought after major. Someone would much rather employ a finance major from Colby or Bucknell who interned the last two years at good companies than some Anthro major from Cornell who sat at home every summer. [/quote]

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