Of course one of the sales pitched in recruiting a prospect students is that they will lie about how their career services department works, and they will lie about recruiter contacts, and placement success. They will quickly tell a prospective student what what they want to hear, but never the truth. You only find out their career services departments are worthless when they are pushing jobs like holding signs in the rain, working fast food, crappy retail customer service jobs that pay minimum wage, or push a greeter or shelf stocker positions at Wal Mart when graduation comes around.

A college can teach one to set up a resume, establish networks, and how to do all the grunt work. Most of the time it is up to the student and how they present themselves.

I think Career Services departments in such institutions should be held more accountable.