One source for candidates—generally for larger companies—is on-campus recruiting. Such recruiting is expensive not only in terms of travel and personnel costs, but also in time invested with the placement office in relationship building, planning, and staging recruiting events, obtaining advance information about potential candidates, and paying required fees or making donations.
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Campus RecruitingOne source for candidates—generally for larger companies—is on-campus recruiting. Such recruiting is expensive not only in terms of travel and personnel costs, but also in time invested with the placement office in relationship building, planning, and staging recruiting events, obtaining advance information about potential candidates, and paying required fees or making donations. The fact that a company comes to your campus indicates that a number of graduates from your institution have been successful at the company.
Recruiters wouldn’t bother coming unless they intended to fill their schedule with good candidates and to invite at least one and probably more to go to the next step—the on-site visit. If you obtain an on-campus interview, you’re in the advantageous position of being sought after, rather than seeking. Nevertheless, there are many filters to pass through before you receive a job offer—as you will see.
Campus InterviewsIf your first interaction with a company is a campus interview, here are some things to keep in mind:
• The interviewers are likely to be junior members of the company, possibly graduates two or three years out of your school. They may know a good deal about you from your academic record and consultations with your professors and the placement office.
• You may interview with one person or a panel.
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