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By: Elite Job Websites Gaining Ground | Jobs Portal Watch

Elite Job Websites Gaining Ground | Jobs Portal Watch — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 01:46:57 +0000

[...] an interview with cheezhead.com, ivyexec.com CEO Elena Bajic said the website cuts down employers’ hiring costs as companies only [...]

By: Pete

Pete — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 20:30:17 +0000

Catherine,

George W. Bush did not need to take any qualifying exams to get into Yale. His daddy just had to make one call.

By: Catherine DaGrossa

Catherine DaGrossa — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 19:15:41 +0000

Intelligence (intelligence @ work tagline) equates to Ivy League…hmmmm. Didn’t George W. Bush go to Yale?!?!

By: Pete

Pete — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 18:42:19 +0000

Brian, my experience with working with non-white Ivy League graduates are brilliant and well-rounded not engaged with who they know or where the next family summer vacation will take place. I know quite a few who come from wealthy backgrounds that have graduated from Cornell and Penn. because of WHO they know not WHAT they know. It’s a known fact that the Ivy League discriminates MORE against qualified non-whites, although the Ivy League has made strides diversifying the student population over the past 10 years.

By: Brian

Brian — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 16:22:41 +0000

Sorry Pete/Fran, but you’re grossly misrepresenting any correlation between work ethic, graduating from a prestigious university, and being a good worker, by mashing together a bunch of overly simplistic stereotypes that just don’t apply to the majority of the people at top universities. A large % of Ivy Leaguers are not part of any ’silver spoon club’. They’re smart, hard working individuals who often take on significant personal debt to attend their school.

Diversity is great – I agree 100% – but this is already being addressed at Ivys (many have waived tuition for families making less than $100k). Listen, I know high performing workers who come from both Ivys and less prestigious schools – but I don’t know anyone who ‘bought’ their way into an Ivy (or Ivy equivalent).

Also, you think ambitious people don’t have Type A personalities just because they didn’t attend a prestigious school? Right…good luck with that.

By: Fran

Fran — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 13:15:41 +0000

well said Pete, they can have the silver spoon club, I’ll keep looking for employees who had to work their way through school if they went

By: Pete

Pete — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 21:00:11 +0000

Who wants to work with a bunch of type A personalities? Diversity is key in having a successful business. You can buy your way into a an IVY league college, you can’t teach ambition. Is there a site for HS drop-outs who have made millions in the private sector?

By: Chuck

Chuck — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 19:28:05 +0000

Doostang pioneered this business model and currently has well over half a million alumi from elite universities registered in the community, and over 20,000 high quality job opportunities from prestigious companies like Goldman, McKinsey, Facebook, Google, etc.. Doostang is FREE for employers, no fees to post jobs into the community and interact with candidates directly as a community member. Doostang has partnerships with over a dozen top tier MBA programs, including Wharton, Haas, INSEAD, Kellogg, etc. and is backed by Shasta Ventures and several Silicon Valley luminaries such as Andy Rachleff, a founder partner of Benchmark. The company was just featured in Business Week magazine a couple weeks ago, and positioned as the market leader in this exclusive professoinal networking space.

By: huh?

huh? — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 18:27:54 +0000

So Ivy League equals high quality worker?