This summer, thousands of young adults in New York City participated in internships that will start them toward successful careers. The interns aren’t the only ones who benefit: host employers across the city reap major rewards by filling skills gaps, infusing new energy into the company, identifying…
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Ericsson Logs Off LinkedIn, Unplugs the Phone, and Hits the Streets to Recruit
Recruiting industry pundits, including yours truly, spend a lot of time chasing shiny objects. News releases touting artificial intelligence, chatbots, and virtual reality tend to standout more than, say, PR touting a new CEO or homepage redesign. Readers tend to…
7 Steps to Better Internship Programs
A few years ago we created our first internship program at OmniUpdate. As a growing software company, we always seemed to have more open positions than we could fill. Bringing in interns meant we could build a pipeline for new…
Moderate Practices That Can Improve Your University Recruiting
As college recruiting heats up, it’s an ideal time to re-examine your strategy, processes, and recruiting methods. First update all of your existing approaches. But when you’re ready, add some brand-new tools to your mix. If your firm is not…
Don’t Pass on Game-changer Candidates Who Are Still Rookies
Don’t Pass On Game-changer Candidates Who Are Still Rookies Professional sports lead the way in recruiting “game-changer” candidates who are only rookies, while in the corporate world, most of them are simply passed over. If you’re not familiar with the term…
4 Hiring Lessons From Business Guru Michael Gerber
When I was afforded the opportunity to talk one-on-one with renowned business author Michael Gerber, I cleared my schedule. And of course I asked him about hiring. Gerber is the author of the best-selling E-Myth series along with Awakening The…
Cut Down on the Number of Students Who Change Their Minds
The Wall Street Journal story “The Workers Who Say ‘Thanks, but No Thanks’ to Jobs” last week talked about the jump in students reneging on accepted offers with large companies to work for other firms. It highlights a few trends in relationships…
Improve the ROI of Internships
It is becoming more difficult for companies to convert interns into full-time hires. Companies need to re-assess how they structure these programs in order to maintain a good return on investment. The most recent sources of hire survey by CareerXroads…
Creative Ways to Keep Your Interns Working for You
What’s the difference between university and experienced hire recruiting? It’s more than just the age of the applicants. The purpose of university recruiting is generally not to immediately fill a job or internship. It is to build your employment brand…
Recruiting Against the Private Sector: What Government Can Do to Better to Compete for Talent From Campus
In a previous article, we described the keen interest in employment in the public sector by millenials. Federal employment provides many of the most important attributes that students identify as attractive for their careers. This is evidenced by federal agencies…
Social Recruiting: Too Important for Interns
At ah HR event earlier this month, I advised organizations on adding more social media to their 2014 talent acquisition efforts. Since then, I’ve heard from many organizations who told me, “We’ve assigned our intern to handle that.” That’s a…
Remote College Recruiting — Capturing Top Students From Schools You Don’t Visit
Many exceptional students probably do not attend the schools that you visit If you assume that the best students only attend the top ranked schools, you are making a big mistake.
Going Once. Going Twice. Sold: Internships on the Auction Block
With the recent headlines shining a light on the corporate exploitation of interns, it’s shocking to me that some firms are auctioning off internships in the name of philanthropy. Imagine, a wealthy family of a college student or recent grad…
ERE Chicago, Day 2: College Recruiting — It’s All About the Interns
When you see a conference session titled Straight from the Source: What’s Really on the Minds of the New Generations of Top Candidates, well, it’s something you just have to hear. Add in that fact that it is being led…
Top Engineering Internship Programs Don’t Treat Interns Like Interns
Successful engineering internship programs have one thing in common: they simply ignore the word “intern.” From the recruiting process, entrusted workload to valued feedback loops, companies that invest in their interns as if they’re long-term hires believe they have better…
Got Intern Ennui? Buck Up, Half the Summer’s Over
Welcome to the halfway point of summer. Are you tired of your intern yet? If there’s a survey on that, I haven’t seen it, though there’s a survey about almost everything else. But from my own experience, this is about…
How to Recruit and Hire International Interns
When it comes to recruiting and hiring interns, the best candidates aren’t always located within a 25-mile radius — or even the United States. Sometimes the candidates with the most experience and fit for your company culture are located across…
The Internship Challenge
Last weekend I had the pleasure of seeing the witty comedy The Internship starring Owen Wilson and Vince Vaughn. I went to this movie to experience the dynamic duo from the Wedding Crashers again, but I discovered the movie paralleled…
If Your Unpaid Interns Are Productive and Valuable, You Could Be in Trouble
Unpaid internships have been a dicey proposition for employers for almost as long as the Fair Labor Standards Act has been on the books. For the first several decades since Congress adopted the law in 1938, the disputes were largely…
‘Kill the Cover Letter.’ Long Live the Cover Tweet
While the debate rages on about the future of the resume, there’s angst, but not as much, over the destiny of the cover letter. A year ago Fortune asked “Are we killing off the cover letter?” The answer, at least…