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Thank you We sneak College one o one what is

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name recognition How much does name recognition matter when you're

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picking a school Should be on ly be applying to

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schools we've heard of because that means other people have

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heard of him it's true that there are a lot

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of schools that just it seems like everyone is on

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the big public universities you know people have heard of

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just because they've heard of that thing so they've heard

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of the university of colorado because they typically know about

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colorado But then there are smaller colleges that not as

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many people have heard of and that could be a

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drawback in the initial college search for a lot of

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students because you know when their parents were thinking the

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same thing what in my job prospects if i'm coming

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out of a college that when i'm sending resumes out

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and interviewing nobody has heard of except for maybe that

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alum network and sometimes you actually do have to work

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a little harder if he had graduated from some of

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the bigger universities people have heard of it If you

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graduate from a smaller college sometimes your perspective employers haven't

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heard of it you might need to make an extra

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phone call send up an extra e mail but a

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lot of students that come out of smaller colleges have

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those skills already They've learned to be and small classes

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and raise their hand go see their professors so they've

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developed those skills and even if the name recognition isn't

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out there they're going to network like crazy They're going

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to use their career development center everything they can to

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get those job So can there be a downside though

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to that name recognition i'm thinking of for example someone

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who went to your steve arizona vs in college and

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maybe no one unless they're from these coast but it's

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a great school So if someone has heard of it

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they know and they think it's a great school where

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someone might hear university of arizona and go oh yeah

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that that's a party school Can there be that downside

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to name I think they're definitely stereotypes about certain schools

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you know is that a party school big greek system

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is it's super conservative Maybe that employees won't match our

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liberal culture or the flipside Maybe it's really liberal that

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we have a conservative Culture Who knows i think students

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really need to do Our graduates would be needing a

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lot of work on their own to research what's out

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there talk with the prospective employers especially students who graduated

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a year earlier and find out what their experience was

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and so that'll help them as they make their own

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job searches Many schools are famous because of their location

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Bigger colleges tend to carry more acclaim than smaller colleges

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With small colleges you'll likely have to work harder to

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let job interviewers know your skill set Students at smaller

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schools developed strong proactive skills be mindful of school stereotypes

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and how they can affect your job Search research How

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employers feel about your prospective colleges Like if they think

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you went to a party school and you want to 00:02:48.61 --> [endTime] go to wall street Good luck

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