Re: Door Slamming

[Eric Hughes Hobson <ehobson@medicine.wustl.edu>]

In putting together an advising manual for English majors (undergrad and 
grad), make sure you put industry in it prominantly. Too often we 
highlight educational avenues and forget to mention the benefit many 
employers find in recruiting highly verbal people to their 
workforces--particularly in sales and representatives positions where 
frontline contact with diverse clients is on-going and essential to the 
business' success. There is a premium in the larger job market for folk 
with liberal arts training. English majors CAN go toe-to-toe with 
business and marketing majors for solid entry-level jobs IF they get 
their act together and learn how to market THEMSELVES.

Eric Hobson
St. Louis College of Pharmacy