Despite a national decline in college students' ability to secure part-time jobs to finance the rising cost of tuition, the number of student jobs on Cornell's campus grew from approximately 7,500 in the 2007-08 academic year to 7,922 in the 2010-11 year.

The University’s decision to cease posting median grades online, while still publishing them on student transcripts, is detrimental to Cornell students and leaves them at a potential disadvantage when seeking employment.

In the professional world, a Cornell degree is less competive, study says.

Recently, a number of people — most notably President David Skorton — have questioned the notion that so-called impractical majors do not prepare students for successful careers.

Elana Dahlager '11 give her account of her first real live job interview.

Students flocked to Barton Hall Tuesday and Wednesday for the annual Cornell Career Fair after The Wall Street Journal published a survey ranking Cornell the top 14th “school whose graduates were the top-rated by recruiters.”

Only half of Cornell’s class of 2009 found employment within six months of graduation, according to a survey recently released by Cornell Career Services.

Being that I am incredibly poor and even more incredibly unemployed, I thought that Cornell students could benefit from some of my job-seeking wisdom. I will not make any illegitimate claims to job-hunting greatness, but let me just say that I have worked summers at a guitar store. Impressive, no?

The first thing that any good-to-great career counselor will tell you is that you’re going to need a great resume. And any great resume is going to start out with a great objective. For this step, it will be sufficient to reword the phrase, “please employ me so that I can pay my loans,” in as flowery a way as your sense of morality allows you.