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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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2013 TalentEgg National Campus Recruitment Excellence Awards

2013 TalentEgg National Campus Recruitment Excellence Awards: Next steps

By on March 1, 2013 in Awards and Conference

On behalf of the whole TalentEgg team, we would like to extend a huge thank-you to all of the campus recruiters and HR professionals, and your teams, who took the time to create and submit applications for the 2013 TalentEgg National Campus Recruitment Excellence Awards by the deadline yesterday. We are truly blown away by [...]

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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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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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How to write job descriptions that will appeal to students and recent grads

By on October 24, 2012 in Employer branding, How to write job descriptions, Optimizing for Gen Y, Video

Let’s face it: student and new grad job seekers will probably look at dozens – if not hundreds or even thousands – of job listings while they’re on the hunt for their dream internship, co-op, summer job or entry level job. While some employers do a great job of optimizing their job descriptions for students [...]

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Infographic: How To Build A Dependable Workforce

By on February 21, 2012 in Uncategorized

If there’s one thing that isn’t discussed frequently in the campus recruitment industry in Canada, it’s background checks! Aside from law enforcement agencies and certain government organizations, it’s rare for employers to say up front that they use background checks as part of their recruitment and retention strategy. Our friends over at Business.com recently shared [...]

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Campus Recruitment From The Student Perspective At #RIS2011

By on October 27, 2011 in Recruitment industry events, What students want

Yesterday TalentEgg founder Lauren Friese spoke about campus recruitment from the student perspective at the 2011 Recruitment Innovation Summit in Toronto: When TalentEgg gave Canadian students a platform to share their campus recruitment experiences, we didn’t know what to expect. The result is a compilation of experiences – good and bad – that serve as [...]

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