“Lies, damned lies, and statistics.” That quote is true in just about every case but is especially true, I’ve found, of the Rotman CCC. There are lots of numbers that get thrown at you about job success rates and ways in which people find jobs. Of course the numbers are true but people can come up with statistics to prove anything, forfty percent of all people know that. For example there are lots of indications that you’ll easily find the summer job you want through the CCC.
This is not true!
For example, somewhere in the area of 70% of summer students want an I-Banking or Consulting job. My impression is that about 15% of summer students actually get these jobs. Another example is that the school claims that 90%+ of students get summer jobs. This is true but there are two important caveat:
- That’s 90%+ but they don’t say how many of them were landed the job before the summer started.
- It doesn’t say how many people had to settle for a crappy job that they have no interest in.
Now all this doom-and-gloom doesn’t make Rotman and the CCC look very hot. In reality they both do a great job in trying to get lots of recruiters in (mostly for I-Banking and Consulting with a few random marketing analyst type jobs). The problem is that the summer job market is very competetive. The recruiters go to lots of different schools to try and fill very few summer jobs.
My tip to you is to not rely on the CCC for a summer job. Try and set something up before you start the MBA. If you can’t do that then try and look for jobs outside of Rotman as early as possible. This is especially true if you don’t want an I-banking/consulting gig since there were very few interesting jobs offered outside of these two industries.
This problem is not Rotman specific. It exists at all schools.
P.S. Last week of classes and I’ve caught ANOTHER cold. Is that 3 or 4 since class started?