Schools' career-services offices typically host career fairs, workshops on topics ranging from cover letters to apartment-hunting in a new city, and on-campus recruiting sessions with companies hiring recent graduates.
Since joining KPCB, Hearst has taken board seats on companies ranging from pure new media plays--like AllApartments, an online apartment hunting service and Preview Travel, a popular travel service site--to more esoteric high tech companies like Juniper Networks, a networking company and Viewpoint DataLabs, a 3D graphics company.