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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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Conference recap: International best practices in digital and online campus recruitment

By on May 22, 2013 in Awards and Conference, Campus career website, Employer branding, Online, Video

Bringing his extensive global experience back to Toronto, Tyler Turnbull shared his recommendations for best practices in digital and online campus recruitment, and also provided a few examples of incredible employer branding campaigns from The British Army and the Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS). Tweets, photos, videos and links from Tyler’s presentation embedded below: [View [...]

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Conference preview: How Bayer CropScience created an internship program with a 99% satisfaction rate

By on May 7, 2013 in Awards and Conference, Case studies, Optimizing for Gen Y, Recruitment industry events

For many organizations, internships and co-op work terms are important not only for getting day-to-day work done but also for evaluating and preparing students for entry level roles, as well as building a strong employer brand on-campus. The key to achieving those goals is, of course, to provide a great experience, but it can be [...]

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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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Conference preview: Freedom 55 Financial’s Gen Y-focused recruiting program

By on March 25, 2013 in Awards and Conference, Case studies, Employer branding, Online, Optimizing for Gen Y

As Canada’s demographics continue to shift, and more and more Baby Boomers retire, employers will be forced to compete for a much smaller, much younger talent pool – Generation Y. Although an aging workforce has historically been a problem in natural resource industries like mining and oil and gas, the issue is becoming more prevalent [...]

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Social media for campus recruiting: #TEretail Retail Week Twitter chat

By on March 22, 2013 in Online, Optimizing for Gen Y, Social networks: Twitter

On Wednesday, TalentEgg hosted a Twitter chat about retail careers in the middle of our Retail Week, bringing employers and students together through a single hashtag: #TEretail 95 different Twitter accounts participated, generating more than 400 tweets with the #TEretail hashtag that reached 109,131 people, resulting in over 1.2 million impressions (source: TweetReach). With outcomes [...]

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Next generation employer branding: Twitterviews

By on February 28, 2013 in Case studies, Employer branding, Online, Optimizing for Gen Y, Social networks: Twitter

Looking for an innovative way to stand out from the competition? A new trend that combines employer branding with a unique candidate experience could revolutionize the way you interact with students online. It’s called the Twitterview and, in its purest form, eliminates resumes and applicant tracking systems from the hiring equation altogether. A Dallas-based promotion [...]

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360 poll: What is your biggest campus recruitment priority for the coming year?

By on February 25, 2013 in Employer branding, Online

Your vote is completely anonymous and the results will be revealed exclusively on Campus Recruitment 360 in a future post. What is your biggest campus recruitment priority for the coming year?( free polls) Thank you for voting!

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Poll results: Social media part of campus recruitment strategy for only half of employers

By on February 21, 2013 in Employer branding, Online, Social networks: Pinterest, Social networks: Twitter

We recently ran a poll here on TalentEgg360.com that has produced some surprising results: only about half (54%) of the respondents said social media is a formal part of their campus recruitment strategy. Meanwhile, a little more than one quarter (27%) said it’s not an official part of their strategy, but they like to use [...]

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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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