On Campus Recruiting – Formal Channels

 

At most university and college settings, there are two major “formal” recruitment channels: Career Services Center and Job Fairs.  This will be a short blog since most of this stuff is commmon knowledge for us and well, just not as much fun.

 

JOB FAIRS

 

Probably the most well known and easiest way to meet a lot of students at once.  Job fairs get your employment brand known and allows you to collect hundreds or thousands of resumes at a time.  There are often specialized job fairs on campus for different majors or schools (business, communications, science, etc) along with a general job fair in the fall and spring.  NOTE: The good ones take a job before Christmas for after May graduation……

 

CAREER SERVICES

 

We have all worked with a career services department that seemed more interested in knowing the developments with their union contract negotiations than actually helping students find jobs.   Many of us have also had the fortunate experience of working with department members that would do it for free if they had to — they loved helping the students.  The career services center will post your jobs and allow you to search resumes for little to no fee.  They will also set up interviews, allow use of an interview room, and internet while you are on campus interviewing prospective students.  All you need to do is …. Ask.   Many of the departments use a program like monster.com’s MonsterTrak for keeping their students notified of potential jobs.

 

All in all – if you need to hire 1 or 1,000 college grads this year, this is the one area you shouldn’t overlook.  The informal recruitment channels and greek system are great, but this is where we have people we can partner with on campus being a positive ally for us as we attempt to recruit.