Have you ever wondered what people do in the “off season”?
What do the ski resorts do in the summer? What does the guy who plays Santa in the mall do the rest of the year? What happens at Cape Cod in January?
College Recruiting like most things has a busy season where there are just not enough days in the week or hours in the day to get all the work done. At some point the jobs are filled and recruiting must stop. Here in the US, the “off season” is the summer but the concept is the same no matter when you are located. What do those recruiters work on ?
Well I am sure this varies from company to company but let me tell you what we do here at Sun!
Every day I get at least one more hold the date or early bird registration email from a University. The career centers, students groups and other groups are doing what we do which is planning now for events that are 3-6 months away. We are building out calendars, finalizing resource requests, analyzing results from last year and building out plans for fall 2009. The other big task is intern experience. What separates an internship from a summer job? The answer to that could be a completely different blog but one of the things is the type of experience the intern gets from the internship. When you have hundreds of interns you cannot leave this type of experience to chance. Thus our recruiters find themselves immersed in activities and events that benefit interns throughout the organization.
I still don’t know how to answer the questions above so if you do drop me a line!
What do the ski resorts do in the summer? What does the guy who plays Santa in the mall do the rest of the year? What happens at Cape Cod in January?
College Recruiting like most things has a busy season where there are just not enough days in the week or hours in the day to get all the work done. At some point the jobs are filled and recruiting must stop. Here in the US, the “off season” is the summer but the concept is the same no matter when you are located. What do those recruiters work on ?
Well I am sure this varies from company to company but let me tell you what we do here at Sun!
Every day I get at least one more hold the date or early bird registration email from a University. The career centers, students groups and other groups are doing what we do which is planning now for events that are 3-6 months away. We are building out calendars, finalizing resource requests, analyzing results from last year and building out plans for fall 2009. The other big task is intern experience. What separates an internship from a summer job? The answer to that could be a completely different blog but one of the things is the type of experience the intern gets from the internship. When you have hundreds of interns you cannot leave this type of experience to chance. Thus our recruiters find themselves immersed in activities and events that benefit interns throughout the organization.
I still don’t know how to answer the questions above so if you do drop me a line!
I'm interested in knowing the answer to that as well! :)
How many BRM interns are there anyway? I have yet to see any!
Posted by Anthony Te on June 09, 2009 at 12:55 PM MDT #