January 25th, 2008

Class of

Findings of the “Five Year Out” survey give some validity to the motto, “It’s not who you are; it’s who you know.” Not only did many members of the Class of 2001 change jobs frequently, 50 percent of the time they found their new positions through personal connections—such as networking, friends, family and co-workers. Twenty-three percent of the Class of 2001 has communicated with Duke about their careers since graduation—most often to use alumni career services and to network.

“Duke is a great place to have many resources available,” said Sheila Curran, Fannie Mitchell executive director of the Career Center. “It is up to the students to take advantage of resources, faculty, administrators, alumni, community people and the Career Center.”
As a networking technique, Curran suggests building a “board of advisors”—people in a student’s field of interest who know about the career opportunities and also have a personal interest in the student’s success.
The survey also revealed that parents often play significant roles in graduates’ professional lives. Over 60 percent of the Class of 2001 said their parents influenced their career choice.
Curran said nowadays students can seek their parents’ advice more often than ever through the use of cell phones. Most students today could not imagine being unable to talk to their parents on a moment’s whim, but as Curran noted, this phenomenon of constant parent-child interaction during the college years is relatively new. She said when she was in college, there was only one phone in her dormitory, and it was not in her room. Thus, most of her contact with her parents took place through writing letters.
“Students pay a great deal of attention to what parents think, but it is really important that decisions about careers are the students’ and not the parents’,” Curran said.
-Kristen Davis

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