Seniors’ post-grad plans vary
By Amalie Young
Higher Education Reporter
She’s interviewed for a job with
the CIA, but a job in international
business will do just fine.
Lanessa Oliver, an international
studies major, is graduating from
the University next week. Most of
her college years have been spent
preparing for a career that will
likely take her around the world.
When Oliver got a tip from the
University’s Career Center that the
CIA was recruiting students who
were well versed in a foreign lan
guage, she thought she had found
her dream job. Oliver, who also has
a minor in Scandinavian studies,
can speak Swedish and Japanese,
and she has lived in both countries.
After a brief interview with a
CIA representative in Eugene ear
lier this year, Oliver was asked to
book a flight to the Bay area. Once
she arrived, she would have to call
a certain telephone number for
further instructions, she was told.
At first the thought of a covert
career as an overseas intelligence
officer sounded mysterious and
alluring. But having to keep what
she did for a living a secret, and
the thought of “spying” on people
while posing as a friendly foreign
er, Oliver decided, was not very
appealing.
In the end, Oliver did not attend
the second interview.
“My goals for language learning
didn’t match the CIA’s goals,” she
said. "I wanted to use my skills
and knowledge in a profession
that I would get more out of.”
Instead, Oliver plans to move to
the Bay area to find a job with a
firm that deals with international
business and needs her language
skills, but doesn't make those kind
of lifestyle demands, she said.
“I want something where lan
guage is not my job, but I use it at
my job,” she said. According to
Larry Smith, director of the Uni
versity’s Career Center, students
who have international experi
ence have "a clear enhancement to
their technical competency."
Although it is relatively unusu
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