Fall is the season when many Farmer School of Business students make their pitch to recruiters to earn jobs and internships, bringing their elevator speeches, their resumes, and their best attitudes.

I hear the complaints all the time… “Recruiters respond to me and promise results they never deliver. What do engineering recruiters want?” One of the most frustrating aspects of an engineering job ...

A: Like a lot of things, that all depends. Understand this, first. Recruiters may be involved in hiring decisions, but they generally do not have the final word. Secondly, know this: Recruiters do not ...

A recruiter’s primary job is to screen out a large group of candidates and narrow down the choices to just a few. Hiring managers are too busy doing their full-time jobs to review the resume of every ...

Executive recruiters come in a variety of styles — some are flashy and fast, others quiet and thoughtful. Some seem more like salesmen, while others operate like scientists. Whatever their approach, ...

The preparation is simple: Read the manual to figure out whcih companies will attend, do some research on the companies in your industry, practice introducing yourself and tap into college resources ...

When you graduate from college, it feels like you are standing on the edge of a new world, one in which your hard-earned degree opens doors, but not without the right key. Every year, millions of ...

Why should you care what recruiters want? This is a fair question unto itself. I am presenting this short series of blogs to address the question of what recruiters want so that you can work more ...

I spent a little more than five years recruiting for multiple organizations, and in that time, I learned a lot about what's going right in the industry. More importantly, I've also learned about ...

Smart companies are sidestepping the system — and seeing results.

Over the past 2o years, I spent my career building and leading progressive recruiting teams at companies including NPR, Ticketmaster, Magento and several startups. I've hired dozens of recruiters over ...