Every once in a while one of the Southwestern Company recruiters will visit a new campus and meet with the career center about recruiting students. Sometimes the career center will be aware of Southwestern Company, though many times they don’t. Usually, they will listen to the recruiter and then explain recruiting procedures on [...]
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CollegeGrad.com polls employers annually about the number of interns they look to recruit, typically for the summer months. The Southwestern Company moved into the #1 position for 2010, up from the #2 slot in 2009. Southwestern looks to have around 2,750 interns from some 350 campuses in North America and Europe this summer.
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Dr. Phil Gardner, Michigan State U. researcher and author of the annual “Recruiting Trends” publication states that the college labor market has hit bottom. Last year Dr. Gardner estimated a recruiting decline of 8% to 10%, but it actually ended up to have declined between 35% to 40%. This year’s report was issued at the [...]
I recently visited the corporate offices of Dave Ramsey at Financial Peace Plaza in Nashville, Tennessee. For those of you not familiar with Dave Ramsey, he hosts a nationally syndicated 3-hour daily radio talk show that is heard by 4.5 million listeners each week on more than 450 radio stations throughout the United States. Dave [...]
So, it’s now (almost) officially summer. Students are not in class and so we can’t really go to campus to recruit next year’s class. Right? Do we just take the summer off? I hardly think so.I just returned from the annual conference of the National Association of Colleges and Employers (NACE). It was a great [...]
Last week I spent several days on a prestigious campus in the South. The intent of my visit was to connect with career services to find out how well our recruiting efforts were going from their perspective on this campus. The report was positive and that was a good thing.But, what was learned in the [...]
Another example of a partnership came from the Career Center at UCLA. This past year UCLA was the #8 campus in the world in terms of the profit that students made and returned to their campus with at the end of the summer. UCLA was #8 out of over 300 campuses in the world. When [...]
I’m asked on many occasions what the students need to do in the summer to be successful. Well, there are many answers to that question. The students are told in interviews that they need to study hard (their sales talk), work hard and be coachable. If they work on these three elements, they’ll probably have [...]
Do you remember, those of you old enough to remember, that there were a number of corporations that had offices and professionals who had something called “college relations” or “university relations” in their title? Yes, that seems like eons and several recessions ago. Then there was a period of downsizing and that title seemed to [...]
As the Global Campus Relations Director for the Southwestern Company, I am lucky enough to be able to honestly say that no two days are the same and about 92.8% can be considered exciting. Today, it’s even more exciting as I get to celebrate 59 years of life. It’s not the Big 4-0 or the [...]
