College Career Center Gives Graduates Complimentary Parking-Lot Breakdown Headshot
The school says the service helps graduates enter the job market with a professional photo and fresh curb trauma.
A college career center has begun giving graduates a complimentary parking-lot breakdown headshot to help them enter the job market with a professional photo and fresh curb trauma.
The service includes a gray backdrop, two minutes with a ring light, and a staff member who waits until the graduate finishes crying near a Corolla before saying, "Great, now soften the jaw."
"Employers want confidence," said career readiness director Pamela Ro. "We can create confidence, or at least crop the part where the graduate is realizing their degree, rent, and inbox have formed a small tribunal."
Students receive three edited images: one smiling, one serious, and one where the eyes say they have already applied for 61 coordinator roles that require five years of experience and a bachelor's degree in obedience.
The university said the headshot package pairs well with its resume workshop, salary-negotiation seminar, and a new alumni panel called Everyone Is Fine Because We Turned Off Follow-Up Questions.
Graduates praised the convenience, though several said it was hard to look employable while their parents kept asking whether the ceremony speaker's jokes were supposed to be so honest.
At press time, the career center had added a premium option where someone in a blazer tells the graduate "networking is just relationships" while both of them know that sentence is a crime.
