CENTRAL CAMPUS—It’s that time of the year! As September wraps up, seniors are increasingly experiencing pressure from their parents to get a jump on their job search. Career Advisor Andrew Hastings bore the brunt of the meetings with hordes of students, all desperately cloying for a job.
“Advising students on their career hunt isn’t just my job, it’s my passion, it’s my life. I like really getting into the complexity of the job market, asking them things like ‘Do you know you need a resume? How about a Cover Letter? Try making a profile on Linked in.’ If that doesn’t work, I like to tell them to go from door to door at their local neighborhood hedge funds, asking if they would like to hire a poor, downtrodden Cornell grad.”
Student Charles Callaghan ’25 was lucky enough to experience Hastings’s unique career advising strategy: “I walked in there and he had the word ‘job’ written like 30 times on the blackboard. Then, he read the dictionary.com definition to me. Next, he asked me what a job meant to me. Finally, he emailed me a link to Handshake and sent me on my way.”
Hastings saves his true secret to finding a job for the students who need it most. “Try asking your dad,” he tells them. “That’s what I did.”
