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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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Meet the TalentEgg Awards judges: Top students from SFU, Schulich and U of T

By on March 4, 2013 in Awards and Conference

Now that the applications for the 2013 TalentEgg National Campus Recruitment Excellence Awards are closed, the judging period will begin shortly. An elite panel made up of 200 top students from schools across Canada will evaluate and provide feedback on employers’ campus recruitment initiatives, ultimately choosing the Top 3 finalists and winners in each category. [...]

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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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How to make the most of Twitter for campus recruitment: Part 2, Lists

By on August 7, 2012 in Online, Social networks: Twitter

In Part 1 of the How to make the most of Twitter for campus recruitment series, we outlined some basic and intermediate strategies to help campus recruiters better engage with students: Respond to all @ mentions as soon as possible Keep an eye on key search terms, such as your organization’s name Jump in and [...]

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Poll results: Have you ever attended a career fair on your campus?

By on July 12, 2011 in Career fairs, On-campus, What students want

Our survey of campus recruitment professionals showed that 75% of them will attend zero-to-5 on-campus career fairs this year, and perhaps one of the reasons for that is employers are realizing that the majority of students do not attend them. The results of a recent TalentEgg homepage poll show that while two thirds of students [...]

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Bridging the student to employee divide

By on March 10, 2011 in Uncategorized

On Monday, we launched Student Voice, a three-month initiative giving students a platform to share their job search frustrations, stories, and lessons for employers. Over the next three months, we intend to collect and publish hundreds of entries and share them as widely as possible with decision makers across the country. We want to give [...]

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Maximize your career fair experience

By on January 28, 2011 in Uncategorized

On Monday, I wrote a post examining the value of career fairs. I was pretty critical. I wrote the post for two reasons. The first was to share a perspective that some students may agree with. The second reason, and the more important of the two, was to generate a discussion that would hopefully help [...]

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