Genre and Sub Genre: Rites of Passage
Language: English
Country where Item is from: United States of America
Informant Data: Emily Ma is a Biology and Economics double major in the class of 2018 at Dartmouth. She is from North Potomac, Maryland, where her mom is an eye doctor and her dad is a scientific researcher. Emily has participated in formal recruiting twice at Dartmouth. After college Emily aims to work in healthcare consulting and eventually go to med school. She is a member of Kappa Delta sorority, is a Design Editor for the Dartmouth Business Journal, and she serves on the Red Cross Club executive team.
Social/ Cultural Context: Emily was interviewed, one-on-one, in a common space on campus. She has gone through the process of formal corporate recruiting at Dartmouth twice, and when interviewed was interviewed just after completing her recruiting this term. The corporate recruiting process is highly structured and often represents the bridge between student life and the “real world,” thus serving as a rite of passage for these students.
Item: For econ majors working to ultimately go into consulting, finance or technology, corporate recruiting is a rite of passage. It is the process by which students are separated from their peers and their classes, are tested, taught, and ultimately exposed to the real world of searching for a job.
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Do you feel like doing Corporate Recruiting has changed your Dartmouth experience? Would you consider it a rite of passage? Yeah, for econ majors and those looking to go into consulting or finance and possibly tech.
Why do you think that? Because it is sort of like a gateway to the quote unquote real world, in the sense that you get exposed to a lot of processes and procedures that adults do in the real world when looking for a job, that you otherwise wouldn’t really be exposed to when you’re on campus.
Informant’s Comments: n/a
Collector’s Comments: Informant is able to give a detailed and experience driven commentary on recruiting after going through the process not once but twice over the past six months. Given that she has completed at least one round fully, I feel that she is well qualified to speak to the process as it pertains to rites of passage.
Collector’s Name: Bridget Dougherty
Tags/Keywords: Corporate Recruiting, Rite of Passage
Dully noted, that many consulting firms do this to leverage the resources and increase income. I am working on establishing similar types of partnerships to leverage my company’s resources. This story is very interesting as it relates to a few of the trends that we are seeing in the healthcare arena; there will be some major changes to the industry over the next few years.