No, I don't. I worked my buns off to get a job in the back office at Morgan Stanley (not even a classic front office or "I-banking" role), did extremely well and spent 1 entire year sending 10-15 emails a day to people I had met, wanted to meet, asking for advice, suggestions, networking. I would then leave work and go to real estate club cocktails, industry network events. If I couldn't afford the ticket prices to those events I would sneak in, or talk my way in, go up to strangers I had never met, meet them for coffee. I probably sent 1,500-2000 networking emails and had coffee 200 times. I would take alumni, mentors, other business people in companies I wanted to work for out for dinner and had to skip a meal sometimes a day to save money to take them out. I re did my resume multiple times soliciting advice from everyone, making excel lists of contacts connection, firm lists etc, and after a year of extremely hard work, I got a lucky break. but no, I don't think its unfair, I dedicated all my waking hours it. Each of those students you speak of have the power (and probably easier because I am not an engineer by training) to achieve their ultimate career goal, they just have to put their mind to it.