Faculty of Arts & Sciences Office of Career Services
2015‐2016 Annual Report
2015‐2016
Contents Contents ......................................................................... 1 Introduction .................................................................... 2 OCS FAS‐Wide Services ................................................... 2 Drop‐In Advising ............................................................. 2 Scheduled Appointments ................................................ 2 Educational Programming .............................................. 3 Connecting with Alumni ................................................. 3 Career Fairs and Events .................................................. 3 Job and Internship Postings ............................................ 4 Campus Interviews ......................................................... 5 Web, Publications, and Social Media ............................. 5 Additional Service Details by Population ....................... 5 Harvard College Services ................................................ 5 Premed and Health Advising .......................................... 7 Summer Funding ............................................................ 7 Graduate School of Arts and Sciences Services .............. 8 Harvard Extension School Services ................................. 8 OCS by the Numbers ...................................................... 9 New Employer Development ......................................... 9
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Introduction The Office of Career Services (OCS) serves over 14,000 Faculty of Arts and Sciences students, approximately 6,600 Harvard College students, 4,400 Graduate School of Arts and Sciences Master’s and PhD students, and 2,900 Harvard Extension School students in degree‐granting programs. The office focuses on teaching students how to connect with people and information, ensuring that students continue to know how to discover opportunities after they leave Harvard.
OCS FAS‐Wide Services Drop‐In Advising OCS is a high volume, student‐focused office which offers a combination of in‐person and online support. Harvard students prefer help in real‐time without waiting for an appointment, making daily drop‐ins a popular and highly used service. In most cases students attend a drop‐in before being activated to schedule an individual appointment with an adviser.
AY1516 Drop‐In Advising # of Drop‐Ins Total: July 2015 – June 2016 4,275 Busiest Month: September 1,096 2nd Busiest Month: January 769
Scheduled Appointments OCS has approximately 1 adviser for every 1,000 undergraduate students and about 1 adviser for every 2,000 students for GSAS and HES. In 2015‐2016, advisers conducted 3,645 total one‐on‐one half‐hour or hour‐long advising appointments. Combining both drop‐ins and scheduled appointments, OCS met at least once with unique individual students as follows:
AY1516 Advising Totals Unique Students Freshmen 653 Sophomores 657 Juniors 679 Seniors 837 College TOTAL 2,826 GSAS Master's 90 GSAS PhD's 357 GSAS TOTAL 447 HES Bachelor's 77 HES Master's 154 HES TOTAL 231 College Alumni 358 GSAS Alumni 32 HES Alumni 27 Alumni TOTAL 417 GRAND TOTAL 3,921
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2015‐2016 Educational Programming The Office of Career Services offered 361 programs this year, including workshops on resumes and interviewing, as well as programs in “cluster areas” ranging from human rights and poverty alleviation, to fashion and sports management, entertainment and media, environment and energy, global public health, law, engineering, business, and entrepreneurship. These programs help students explore diverse career pathways (see the graphic below for the 19 cluster areas).
Connecting with Alumni OCS programs most often take the form of a panel featuring Harvard alumni working in the fields displayed above. These programs provide an opportunity for students to make professional connections with alumni and other professionals in their fields of interest. This year over 11,100 participants attended OCS programs where they connected with alumni and experts in various fields. These numbers include the Alumni/Professionals‐in‐Residence Program, a collaboration with the Harvard Alumni Association where students meet one‐on‐one or in small group office hours with alumni. OCS hosted 16 Alumni/Professionals‐in‐Residence Career Chats and 22 Alumni/Professionals‐ in‐Residence Office Hours attended by 569 students. This diverse cluster area educational programming and alumni‐focused programming is what distinguishes OCS’s services from other career offices. Career Fairs and Events OCS offered nearly 20 career fairs this past year, many specialized by field and timed to the hiring practices in those sectors. These targeted events allow students to compare and contrast organizations more efficiently while enabling employers with concrete opportunities to meet students interested in their field. This year, 936 employers (748 unique employers) attended OCS‐run or collaborative career fairs and 6,255 FAS students attended.
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Job and Internship Postings In the 2015‐2016 academic year, 3,222 employers posted 9,770 jobs and internships representing all 50 states and over 80 countries in the OCS online database, Crimson Careers. January saw the most positions posted (1,043 unique postings). This year there were also 209 January experiences posted in Crimson Careers, including 77 “Winternship” opportunities cultivated in partnership with the Harvard Alumni Association and other campus colleagues. During this past academic year, Crimson Careers has been accessed by the following number of students/alumni: AY1516 Crimson Careers Student Usage Unique Students Freshmen 1,262 Sophomores 1,371 Juniors 1,517 Seniors 1,589 College TOTAL 5,739 GSAS TOTAL 1,333 HES TOTAL 924 Alumni TOTAL 2,584 GRAND TOTAL 10,380
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2015‐2016 Campus Interviews The Office of Career Services has a long‐ standing Campus Interview Program which largely accommodates for‐profit employers traveling to campus to conduct interviews for entry‐level talent. This year the program hosted just under 200 employers who conducted over 5,300 first‐round interviews on campus. Each year, approximately 20% of Harvard College seniors secure a post‐ graduate job through the Campus Interview Program, mostly in the fields of technology, finance, corporate strategy, and consulting. Only a small subset of employers has the time, resources, and consistent hiring needs to utilize the Campus Interview Program. The graphic to the right demonstrates the many ways OCS engaged employers on campus this past academic year. Web, Publications, and Social Media Between July 1, 2015 and June 30, 2016, the OCS website had over 893,000 pageviews, with strong spikes in views in September and January. In addition to the web, OCS communicates with students through social media. OCS has 6,708 Facebook fans, and this year fans indicated they were attending or interested in OCS events 14,392 times through Facebook. On Twitter, OCS has 4,811 followers and sent 584 tweets which generated 440,000 impressions. The OCS Tumblr blog had 82 new posts, 6,837 visits, and 9,883 pageviews. OCS also has Pinterest pages featuring information on graduate and professional schools, as well as male, female, and “beyond the binary” dressing for interviews and is working with the BGLTQ Office to enhance this material. The office also covers events using Instagram. In addition to social media, the office communicates to students through class year and interest‐area email lists and produces over 20 pamphlets and booklets updated each year.
Additional Service Details by Population Harvard College Services The Office of Career Services is only one of many offices at the College that advise Harvard students about outside‐of‐the‐classroom activities, summer opportunities, and post‐graduate work and graduate school plans. OCS welcomed freshmen with an Open House during the calendar of opening days and hosted them again in mid‐November with a program AY1516 Large‐scale Freshmen Programs titled SPF‐19, Summer Planning for Attendees Freshmen ‘19, a partnership between Freshmen Open House 366 OCS and the Freshman Dean’s Office. SPF ’19 – Summer Planning for Freshmen 540 Freshmen Parents’ Open House 220
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2015‐2016 New this past year, OCS worked with Karen Pearce in Institutional Research to ascertain normative data about what students do with their three Harvard summers:
For seniors, OCS conducts a special outreach called Senior Check‐In. Over 375 seniors elected to take part in this extra help for thinking about “next steps” after Harvard. The office also hosted 22 graduate and professional school presentations, mostly for law and medical school visits, but also including international affairs, education, and more. OCS helps students see their next steps after graduation as a part of a process or journey where they can test their interests and refine the questions they want to spend their life learning about and trying to answer. Students are encouraged to think of themselves as a “startup” and to fail fast, iterate, and pivot towards opportunities that allow them to continue gaining skills and learning from interesting people. Since 2011, OCS has worked with Institutional Research to produce an accurate portrayal of what students do directly after Harvard:
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Premed and Health Advising OCS premed and health career advisers conducted 29 programs this year including 11 “Premed 101” orientations primarily for freshmen. These programs were attended by 1,112 participants. Nearly 325 students attended the freshman orientation on being a premed or prehealth student at Harvard held during opening days. The team works closely with math, life sciences and physical sciences faculty to ensure that students have solid guidance on course selection and placement levels. Working closely with the House Premedical Tutors and Resident Deans, the premed team helps students through the complex process of preparing for and applying to medical school. Each year, approximately 80 to 90 students apply directly to medical school and over 200 apply later as recent alumni. Close to 75% of applicants now take one or more “gap years” before medical school, and the office conducts programs directed at helping students think about what they might pursue during that time. Harvard has a 94% acceptance rate into medical school for students and alumni with a GPA of 3.5 or higher, which is one of the highest in the country.
Summer Funding The Office of Career Services administers over three‐and‐a‐half million dollars of donor funds for summer experiences each year. This year, the OCS Summer Funding team received 958 applications from students seeking funds for:
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Study abroad, International nonprofit and for‐profit internships, International public service, International arts and experiential learning projects, and Domestic public service or arts internships.
The Summer Funding team manages selection and distribution for 57 different donor funds, including the David Rockefeller International Experience Grants and the Weissman International Internship Program funds. Despite the large amount of money available, the office is only able to fund about 50% of the students who apply for funding in any given year. OCS Summer 2016 International Funding Funded Students Study Abroad 280 Internships, service, research 192 assistantships, and experiential learning TOTAL 472 When allocating funds, Harvard‐run programs are prioritized over outside programs. Of those funded for study abroad, 243 students (87%) attended one of 21 Harvard Summer School Programs. International partners included the China Fund, David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies, the Institute of Politics, the Global Health Institute, and a number of other offices and centers. For domestic experiences, OCS partnered with the Phillips Brooks House Association Summer Urban Program, the Center for Public Interest Careers, Harvard Global Health Institute and the Presidential Public Service Fellowship to fund 45 students selected for public service opportunities in such places as Boston, Cambridge, and Washington, DC. OCS also funded 6 students selected for internships with the American Repertory Theater. Additionally, 110 students received support from the Lowe Career Decision Fund to pursue January “Winternships” and other career exploration activities such as traveling to Los Angeles to connect with alumni in the entertainment fields as part of Harvardwood 101, all of which were based domestically during January. Graduate School of Arts and Sciences Services The Graduate School of Arts and Sciences team serves the 57 different departments’ Master’s and PhD students. The team offered 50 programs serving 1,538 participants, with additional programs coordinated in partnership with student groups, departments, employers, and other offices. For example, the team worked with the GSAS Alumni Council on annual January@GSAS panels and coordinated with several offices to host two screenings of PHD Movie 2 attended by 325 students. OCS has partnered with the active GSAS student clubs and the GSAS Alumni Council to improve student preparation for non‐academic positions and travelled with the Science Policy Club on a trek to 10 organizations in Washington, DC. The office continues to offer more programs and advising services on the Longwood campus, and will continue to expand those services in the next year. Approximately 30% of the GSAS PhD students pursue a non‐academic path after graduation. Harvard Extension School Services The Harvard Extension School team conducted 37 programs attended by 2,083 participants. The team significantly increased the number of employers participating in the annual Extension Degree
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2015‐2016 Candidate and Alumni Job Fair. In addition, this unit leads the office in providing distance learning to students and conducts many programs digitally using GoToWebinar. Webinar attendance nearly doubled this past academic year. The team also delivers many of the “nuts and bolts” resume and interviewing workshops open to all FAS students and has expertise in serving adult learners and mid‐ career students.
OCS by the Numbers
New Employer Development The entire office has engaged in new employer development and outreach in the spring and summer and connected with Harvard alumni to source opportunities for students. Many sectors are experiencing rapid change due to technology and the global economy. Cloud computing, artificial intelligence, augmented reality, data analytics, the dominance of large and diversified technology platforms like Google, Amazon, Microsoft, and Facebook, and the use of robotics and drones is beginning to have a significant impact on the world of work. The OCS team continues to be nimble and stay on top of changing demand for skills and entry‐level talent. The office has also had a growing focus on creative careers and the arts, working closely with the Dean of Arts and Humanities. OCS tries to use programs, events, and fairs to help students learn how to build a professional network that will help them beyond their first post‐graduate experience and allow them to change positions, directions, and sectors as they pursue 21st century careers.
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