Discuss “Career Center puts time on your side”

Recent increases in campus recruiting efforts and on-campus interviews have prompted some universities? career centers to enact job offer policies. Although Carnegie Mellon currently lacks a policy that places minimum expiration times on ?exploding? job offers, the Career Center might soon enact one, as well.

Schools across the country have put policies in place that ensure that students have a fair amount of time between interviewing with companies and accepting their job offers. The Offer Policy from the University of Pennsylvania, for example, acknowledges that ?exploding offers and bonuses put enormous pressure on ... students to make a decision before they have completed the interviewing process.?

Policies like Penn?s try to alleviate...