In addition to services for students, the site offers several career enhancement tools. These include job and resume postings, admission essay and business document reviews and English editing for international clients. The website helps students find information for research projects and also offers advice on the quality of informational resources on the Internet, Hurt said. But the site does not only offer services for the seasoned student. It will also be one of the first to offer specialized consulting for technical writing and English as a foreign language for international clientele, according to a statement by the group.
Graduate students are a large, untapped and under appreciated resource.
We are giving them an option outside of becoming GSIs. There is no comprehensive, large academic service. Most of the group's other consultants are also graduate students at the university, according to Hurt. We are giving them an option outside of becoming GSIs. Hurt said most of the graduate students that the group approached were interested in working for Ivory Tower.