Top 100 Employers of Choice for Information Technology Students

The recently posted article, Top 100 Ideal Employers for 2011 College Students and Recent Graduates, discussed the importance of employers having a positive brand on-campus as it made their recruitment efforts easier. In short, the best candidates want to work for the best employers so those best employers are better able to recruit the best candidates, which makes those employers even better.

Universum publishes a survey each year in which employers are ranked as the most ideal by tens of thousands of students at hundreds of colleges and universities. For 2011, the top 100 employers of choice as ranked by engineering students are: Continue Reading

Top 10 Employers of Choice for Engineering Students

The recently posted article, Top 100 Ideal Employers for 2011 College Students and Recent Graduates, discussed the importance of employers having a positive brand on-campus as it made their recruitment efforts easier. In short, the best candidates want to work for the best employers so those best employers are better able to recruit the best candidates, which makes those employers even better.

Universum publishes a survey each year in which employers are ranked as the most ideal by tens of thousands of students at hundreds of colleges and universities. For 2011, the top 100 employers of choice as ranked by engineering students are: Continue Reading

Top 100 Employers of Choice for Business Students

The recently posted article, Top 100 Ideal Employers for 2011 College Students and Recent Graduates, discussed the importance of employers having a positive brand on-campus as it made their recruitment efforts easier. In short, the best candidates want to work for the best employers so those best employers are better able to recruit the best candidates, which makes those employers even better.

Universum publishes a survey each year in which employers are ranked as the most ideal by tens of thousands of students at hundreds of colleges and universities. For 2011, the top 100 employers of choice as ranked by business students are: Continue Reading

Top 100 Ideal Employers for 2011 College Students and Recent Graduates

Every employer wants to be an employer of choice but most simply are not. Many quality employers are not ranked as employers of choice by college students or recent graduates because the employers don’t hire students or grads or because the employers don’t hire many. So an employer’s failure to make a “best of” list is not necessarily a criticism of the employer so much as it is a recognition that the list is essentially a popularity list and the strength of an employer’s brand goes a long way to ensuring their success in popularity contests.

“Best of” lists are important for large employers who hire dozens, hundreds, or even thousands of college and university students for internships, part-time work, seasonal jobs, and temporary jobs and recent graduates for entry-level jobs and other career opportunities. Landing on a “best of” list makes it easier for employers to recruit the best talent, which in turn makes it easier for them to remain on the “best of” list. Continue Reading

Facebook Embraced by U.S. Department of Labor to Help Students and Grads Find Employment

Secretary of Labor Hilda L. Solis today announced an innovative partnership that leverages the combined audience and expertise of officials from the U.S. Department of Labor, Facebook, the National Association of State Workforce Agencies, DirectEmployers Association and the National Association of Colleges and Employers to provide crucial employment resources to job seekers through the use of social networks. Continue Reading

Half day college recruiting conference at GWU

This past April, The George Washington University, RECSOLU, and CollegeRecruiter.com worked together to pilot a half day college recruiting conference (FedCollege) for federal government employees involved in the recruitment of college students and recent graduates. We hoped that 50 attendees would join us but we were delighted when 72 showed up and created an oversold event! Continue Reading

Top 10 Most Influential Colleges

Have you ever wondered which colleges have the most influence online?  This list may not exactly determine where you go to college, but at least it will give you something to talk about.

Many students are in the midst of midterms right now, worrying about how their hastily scrawled exams will fare under the critical eyes of their professors. Well, Klout (which measures influence across the social web such as Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, etc.) decided to turn the tables (or desks) and make the schools sweat. Let’s see who set the curve in the Klout* list of top ten influential schools. Continue Reading

Federal Agencies Cutting Jobs — Even Military, Intelligence Aren’t Safe

Not even the nation’s ranks of spies will be safe from federal budget cuts, according to a recent article at Wired.com.   Major cuts to the intelligence community’s $80 billion annual budget could result in widespread job cuts across the various spy agencies.   With a mandate to cut federal spending by $2.1 trillion over the next decade, every government agency is at risk of job cutting, including the military.

Over the past two months, multiple military branches have announced personnel reductions totaling more than 67,000.  Meanwhile, the United States Postal Service, which is facing financial insolvency resulting from significant declines in mail volume and retiree health benefit prefunding costs imposed by Congress, has proposed a plan that would cut its workforce by 220,000 between now and 2015 (100,000 of which would come from attrition). Continue Reading

Why Beating Around The Bush Doesn’t Work In Resumes

Hiring managers are very busy people.  Not only are they given the responsibility of bringing in new candidates for the company, but in their positions, they have many other tasks to complete as well.  The last thing they have time to do is sift through a lot of fluff just to get to the point you’re trying to make in your resume.

That’s right.  Beating around the bush is not allowed in resumes—or at least hiring managers would prefer it were that way.  Here is why beating around the bush really just doesn’t work in resumes. Continue Reading

Why You Should Hit the Reset Button on Your Job Search

As more and more time passes in your job search, you might become discouraged and eventually frustrated about your chances of getting hired. Keep in mind if you are someone who simply lacks patience, it may be that your job search hasn’t had enough time to develop. On the other hand, if you have been in a long-term search (maybe a year or more), it may be time to hit the reset button.

Here are some reasons why a change in your job search could be necessary: Continue Reading