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College Dropout: Why We Need To Rethink College Recruiting.

Recruiting Daily

These, of course, are the sort of specious selling point that career advice consultants and employment brand experts talk about ad nauseum as critical components of a college recruiting strategy. All Falls Down: The College Recruiting Disconnect. School Spirit: Why College Recruiting Is Broken.

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How Scrapping the Traditional College Recruitment Model Helped LinkedIn Find More Diverse Talent

Linkedin Talent Blog

As the head of the LinkedIn Campus Recruiting team, I’ve come to realize that traditional college recruiting just doesn’t work anymore - at least when it comes to finding diverse talent. With that in mind, we decided to completely change how we recruited at the college-level. In fact, it’s a measured goal.

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The Trouble With Recruiting Young People

Recruiting Blogs

Here’s a telling excerpt from the Job Outlook 2016 survey: Notice the theme of more attitude based attributes leading the way, as the most desired candidate qualities are communication level and teamwork. But the motivation of recruitment must always be juxtapositioned to the candidate’s intent.

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3 Difficult Diversity Lessons From Yelp, Airbnb, and Deloitte

Linkedin Talent Blog

Targeted college recruitment programs can be hugely successful. By 2016, 43% of Airbnb’s workforce were non-white, up from 37% in 2015. Based on what they learned, Airbnb recently overhauled its recruiting process to make things fairer for everyone. And Yelp is still pushing. Image from Yelp.

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Recruiting Sales Leaders and 9 More of the Biggest Challenges Startups are Facing

Linkedin Talent Blog

Engineering executive, which was the hardest roles to fill in both 2015 and 2016 , came a close second, with 24.4% Most founders (56%) said it was easier to recruit talent in 2017 than 2016. But this number hasn’t changed much in the past few years, with 31% reporting this in 2016 , and 26% in 2015.

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Recruiting Engineering Students? Here's How to Get Their Attention

Entelo

Instead, you’re going to sit in your dorm room, build apps and websites, and get recruited online. College recruiting is all about building excitement around your company brand. One of our software clients is renowned for building one of the top college recruiting brands in the country within a shockingly short time.

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10 Best Practices for Recruiting Interns (+ideas)

Hundred5

General job boards — Job boards (like Zip Recruiter, Indeed, and Career Builder) are still some of the best places to find new employees, especially when you’re looking to cast a wider net. For example, in 2016, Goldman Sachs used Spotify to advertise its internship program. ’ 2.