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A vision for a healthy campus recruitment ecosystem in Canada

By on June 13, 2013 in Recruitment industry events, What students want

As Canada’s population ages and Baby Boomers retire, healthy campus recruiting and retention will play an increasingly crucial role in balancing our labour issues and growing Canada’s economy. At the 2013 CACEE National Conference in Edmonton on June 10th, 2013, TalentEgg founder Lauren Friese presented her vision for the future of attraction, recruitment and retention [...]

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TalentEgg’s 2013 On-Campus Recruiting Report

By on June 3, 2013 in Career fairs, Information sessions, On-campus, Swag, What students want

Planning your on-campus recruiting initiatives for the fall? TalentEgg’s new On-Campus Recruiting Report features survey results from top Canadian post-secondary students and recent graduates about their on-campus recruitment habits and preferences that will help you make the most of the increasingly limited time and resources at your disposal. We asked students and recent graduates to [...]

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What students want: 4 elements of an engaging campus career website

By on May 23, 2013 in Awards and Conference, Campus career website, Employer branding, Online, What students want

Your campus career website is like the virtual front door to your organization and, like a home, it needs some serious curb appeal to get students and grads interested in what you’re selling: your career opportunities.

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2013 TalentEgg Campus Recruitment Awards: Finalists, best practices and winners

By on May 15, 2013 in Awards and Conference, What students want

On May 14, TalentEgg founder Lauren Friese revealed the winners of the 2013 TalentEgg National Campus Recruitment Excellence Awards to a few hundred campus recruiters, human resources professionals and career services staff during an awards ceremony held at the Arcadian Loft in downtown Toronto. She also shared some of the best practices for each of the [...]

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5 campus recruitment lessons from PwC’s NextGen study

By on April 23, 2013 in Employer branding, Optimizing for Gen Y, What students want

At the end of last week, PwC released a comprehensive study on how millennials (those born between 1980 and 1995, for the purposes of the study – also known as Generation Y) view and impact the workplace. The firm says NextGen is the largest global generational study ever conducted, featuring the results of more than [...]

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How student leaders choose where to work: Exploration

By on February 12, 2013 in Campus career website, Employer branding, Information sessions, Job boards, On-campus, Online, Optimizing for Gen Y, Social networks: Twitter, What students want

Phase 1: Exploration How students find jobs may seem simple enough – they just go online, apply and either get hired or they don’t, right? Well, sure, that’s how some students find jobs – but not our fascinating group of Engaged Leaders. They go through three distinct phases – Exploration, Connection and Decision – before ultimately accepting [...]

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What every campus recruiter should know about graduating students

By on January 29, 2013 in Job boards, On-campus, Online, What students want

As employers recruiting on campus, you have a lot to work around: class schedules and part-time jobs, not to mention other employers competing for the same talent. Even once you offer employment to a graduating student, there’s still salary expectations, retention, post-graduate education and even travel plans to contend with sometimes. A recent survey of [...]

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Crowd-sourced job listing wish lists

By on January 22, 2013 in Employer branding, How to write job descriptions, Job boards, Optimizing for Gen Y, What students want

Despite their prevalence, job descriptions are so easy to get wrong and so difficult to get right – especially for students and recent grads. Just take this recent internship posting from a UK-based publisher, which stated that the successful candidate should “not have any other commitments (personal or professional) that will interfere with their work [...]

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Exploration, Connection, Decision: How Student Leaders Choose Where To Work

How student leaders choose where to work: Introduction

By on December 11, 2012 in On-campus, Online, What students want

If you asked many new grads how they chose which employer to start their careers with, they’d probably tell you that they waited until the last minute (i.e., April) and frantically applied to any employer that was hiring for roles they were somewhat qualified for. As we’ve discovered through our award-winning Student Voice initiative, which [...]

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The 3 types of students and how they approach their careers

By on December 5, 2012 in Case studies, On-campus, What students want

Historically, employers have looked at students in terms of their programs and which year of school they’re in. Through that lens, campus recruitment activities traditionally target students by program, year and school, assuming that all students who fall into that group should be provided the same campus recruitment information. But it turns out that not [...]

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