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This week is Career Week at McCombs School of Buinsess. The usual ritual commands hundreds of students in black suit and pants, wielding polished leather padfolios, distributing uniform formatted resumes as their ways to market themselves to Corporate America. This is the one week during the semester where the academy meets the real world. Students of all ages scramble to meet recruiters, strike a conversation, and laugh uncomfortably to awful jokes that they themselves have well buried within the remotest part of their comedic repertoire throughout the years.
I always find it intriguing to observe people who are at different stages of their career development at career fairs. Freshmen who mustered the guts to come to Career Expo to learn from the experience scurried aimlessly about. Sophomores who espouse a nonchalance strolled back and forth, while sharing a sympathetic outlook after the upperclassmen whose caffeinated hilarity betrayed their true ignorance of their objects. On one hand, there were aggressive recruiters who strategically round up loitering students to their booths; and on the other hand, there were recruiters who received the full royal treatment from what looked like a disarray courtship from international dignitaries – most certainly not discounting those toadies and chatterboxes.
Dropping off one’s resume is only the first step in a series of rituals one has to undergo in modern days to obtain a job. There is also the informal courtship through social media and most certainly “email” (What is that?) While this whole course of actions is quite entertaining from a bird’s eye view – so to speak, but that is how we as human beings choose or rather prefer to function. Isn’t that fascinating though?! Our culture, our tradition, and our history project much intrigue and amusement that even in the 21st century, we are succumbed to those ritualistic instincts to entertain and make others like us just like how we’ve done so throughout the ages.