When someone says recruiting event what comes to mind?
If you are like most people it is probably one of the following:
Attend a job fair, reply to a job posting, on campus interviews
There is a lot of buzz lately about social networks replacing the way jobs are procured....has not everyone by now heard the story about the young woman that got a job via Twitter. In addition, Every company is looking at Facebook (in the interest of full disclosure we are quite proud of our Facebook Page) and how they might use it to recruit students. These tools do indeed have their place and will only grow in scope as more and more people adopt them.
Sometimes however the answer is not new technology (Twitter) or even the old way of doing things (career fairs) but simple networking. You know meeting someone, telling them about yourself and asking them about themselves. In short making a connection that may benefit both parties.
We recently sent an engineer from on e of our offices to attend a poker tournament put on by an Engineering Honor Society at one of the University's we recruit from. While this really was less a recruiting event and more of an opportunity just to network and socialize in a fun setting, connections were still made. Making connections are after all what most people attempt to do when they attend a career fair or answer a job posting is it not? It is too soon to tell whether this simple night of poker may lead to the win- win but I am betting it does........
Attend a job fair, reply to a job posting, on campus interviews
There is a lot of buzz lately about social networks replacing the way jobs are procured....has not everyone by now heard the story about the young woman that got a job via Twitter. In addition, Every company is looking at Facebook (in the interest of full disclosure we are quite proud of our Facebook Page) and how they might use it to recruit students. These tools do indeed have their place and will only grow in scope as more and more people adopt them.
Sometimes however the answer is not new technology (Twitter) or even the old way of doing things (career fairs) but simple networking. You know meeting someone, telling them about yourself and asking them about themselves. In short making a connection that may benefit both parties.
We recently sent an engineer from on e of our offices to attend a poker tournament put on by an Engineering Honor Society at one of the University's we recruit from. While this really was less a recruiting event and more of an opportunity just to network and socialize in a fun setting, connections were still made. Making connections are after all what most people attempt to do when they attend a career fair or answer a job posting is it not? It is too soon to tell whether this simple night of poker may lead to the win- win but I am betting it does........