Below are a list of best practices in recruiting free white papers published by CollegeRecruiter.com, the leading job board used by students who are hunting for internships and recent graduates who are searching for entry level jobs and other career opportunities.

1. Best Practices for Corporate Employment Web Sites - Since the commercialization of the Internet in the mid-1990's, employers have struggled with how they can best use this new media to improve the quantity and quality of their hires. The purpose of this white paper is to communicate to employers the experiences of the staff of CollegeRecruiter.com with respect to the best practices for corporate employment web sites. This best practices in recruiting free white paper describes, explains the importance of, and gives examples of 15 of the most important web site features. CollegeRecruiter.com does not design corporate employment web sites, so this is an unbiased, non-sales document.

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2. How to Create a Successful College Recruiting Program - This best practices in recruiting free white paper defines and describes the basic steps required to create a successful college recruiting program. These steps may seem obvious activities requiring project management mixed with common sense and significant recruiting experience. And they are. But it's also clear from interviews with experienced human resources managers who control college recruiting programs that it's the details that count. The common, everyday, persistent application of simple process steps makes a college recruiting program successful.
3. The Best Practices for Creating and Maintaining a Successful Internship Program - This best practices white paper lays out the 12 points which are necessary for employers to create successful internship and co-op programs. Employers who follow these best practices will see significantly more of their interns convert into permanent employees and those employees will eventually turn into the next generation of leaders. Successful internship and co-op programs are not about saving money in the short-term by paying the students less money than permanent employees. Rather, successful programs are all about the recruitment of stars into permanent roles within their organizations.
4. Best Practices for Starting a Corporate Recruiting Blog - This best practices white paper was written by Jim Durbin of Durbin Media Group for the employers and schools using CollegeRecruiter.com. If you've ever wondered what a blog is, why you should blog, and how you should blog, then this no nonsense white paper is required reading. In about 15 minutes, you'll be excited and so will your manager when you are able to make the business case for why your organization needs to blog to ensure that it will land the best Gen Y candidates available.
5. Best Practices for Automating the Human Resources Recruiting Process: Lessons Learned from the Los Angeles Unified School District - Automation has become a fact of life in successful American corporations and human resource departments are no exception. Automation, when used properly, benefits both the human resource recruiting teams and the candidates by streamlining the hiring process and allowing the recruiters to more efficiently and effectively connect with the candidates whose competencies, interests, and values best align with the needs of the organization. This best practices in recruiting free white paper describes what was until recently one of the most dysfunctional recruiting organizations in America and the steps it took to provide the automation tools needed by its existing recruiters, a strategy that led to phenomenal short- and long-term improvements in its hiring process and ability to land candidates who were the most sought after rather than candidates who were the most desperate.
6. Best Practices for Targeted Email Campaigns - This best practices white paper was written with Campus Media Group, a leading high school and college marketing company that helps today's top brands and media agencies reach students on campus. If your organization needs to recruit a lot of people quickly, then targeted emails are an incredibly power product. Learn how to build your own list, how to rent a list, how to design your creative, and how to ensure your targeted email campaign message will be welcomed by those who receive it.
7. Best Practices for Cell Phone Text Messaging Campaigns - This best practices white paper was written with Campus Media Group, a leading high school and college marketing company that helps today's top brands and media agencies reach students on campus. If your organization needs to recruit a lot of people quickly, then cell phone text messaging (SMS) campaigns are an incredibly power product. Learn how to build your own list, how to rent a list, how to design your creative, and how to ensure your message will be welcomed by those who receive it.
8. Best Practices for Retaining Gen Y - This best practices white paper will help recruiters, human resources professionals, and hiring managers of organizations small and large better understand the needs and wants of members of Generation Y, who are also known as Millenials and Echo Boomers. By better understanding those needs and wants, employers will be better able to retain these employees, which will allow the employers to turn their Gen Y employees into the next generation of upper managers and other leaders.

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