On-Campus Recruiting
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College recruiting may not be living up to its potential:
- Companies may not be realizing full value from their recruitment programs.
- Fewer than half of corporate recruiters receive trainning in the proper techniques for interviewing job applicants.
Recruiters tend to form a positive or negative impression about an applicant's qualifications in the first few minutes of an interview, hardly sufficient time to collect information on which to base a recruiting decision. Recruiters also tend to spend more time talking with applicants they cosider to be qualified and less time with applicants they dismiss on the basis of a superficial judgement. Often, recruiters do not follow the corporate script about:
- The topics to be covered in an interview
- Sometimes they fail to discuss important issues with applicants.
All these points reflect a lack of interviewing skills.
- ^ Schultz & Schultz, Duane (2010). Psychology and work today. New York: Prentice Hall. p. 53. ISBN 0-205-68358-4.