A first trip to the Cawley Career Education Center can be a terrifying experience.Crammed in an on-campus interview workshop or information session with a popular employer, attended by what seems like the entire university, it is easy to feel out of place and disenchanted with the university’s corporate-driven culture.

In most other aspects of student life, Georgetown prides itself on taking a holistic approach to our education. Yet in preparing us for our lives beyond the Hilltop, the university’s approach is woefully inadequate. The career center does not highlight our varied strengths, but instead forces us into a generic framework dominated by workshops and networking events hosted through high-profile consulting and finance firms like Deloitte and Ernst & Young.

The unfortunate reality is that with over 7,000 students to serve, the Cawley Career Education Center is spread too thin. Walk-in appointments are nearly impossible to come by despite emails that encourage students to do so, and it can be difficult to develop any kind of a meaningful relationship with a person who is simultaneously trying to juggle the career aspirations of an untold number of other students.

A career center that reflects the diversity of academic and co-curricular interests of this student body, not simply those students that go into the most lucrative jobs, could take many forms.

The four schools could expand upon initiatives like the new MSB-only career center that opened last semester and work in collaboration with the Cawley Center to develop more in-depth profiles of the variety of careers pursued by students in each school, drawing on the unique expertise of each school’s professors, senior leadership and alumni network.

No student should feel that his or her interests are quite literally undervalued compared to others’ interests. Georgetown would be well served to have a center that takes an approach to career education more in line with the university’s values.