But, she adds, the school seems to be changing for the better this year under its new career-development director. Indeed, Jackie Wilbur, the new director, says M.I.T. students will now lose recruiting services if they miss interviews. M.I. T.'s Sloan School of Management ranked 38th in the survey and received its lowest scores for its career-services office, value for the money spent on the recruiting effort and companies' success in retaining its graduates. Richard Schmalensee, the Sloan School's dean, is sympathetic to recruiters' frustrations, but he doesn't apologize for his students' selectivity. But if they weren't, I'd have a problem with that.
Companies think only of pay as a way to keep employees.
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