Engagement matters for both recruitment and branding. If university recruiting teams can become more engaged, the process will be more experience rich and less transactional. Here are a few ideas on how to start captivating top young talent.

Paul, a Facebook intern is going some great work. I absolutely love the way technology companies structure their internships. Tech companies let their interns work on projects because it’s the best way to evaluate talent – let it go. And you never know that they’ll come up with. For example, Fog Creek interns create shippable software in less than 10 weeks.

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Want to learn more about a Home Shopping Network Internship? Here is a simple Q&A with did with an HSN recruiter: Tell me a little about you and how you became an employee at HSN? I moved to Tampa, FL in 2003, and immediately heard about Home Shopping Network (HSN) and what a great place [...]

I don’t understand why 99% of companies fail to ask the talent that they are trying to attract – what benefits do you want? What do you think young talent would say? Do you really thinkMark Zuckerberg or a young Steve Jobs would say – I want a 3% matching 401k, 15 PTO days, and dental coverage! Heck no.

The Wall Street Journal posted a great article today on the value of internships to small business owners. Here is a quick excerpt of the article.

Internship applications don’t allow for much creativity – they try to keep everyone in the same box and evaluation often happens by college reputation and gpa. Well, that’s great if you have a 3.8 from Harvard! Chances are, you don’t. So, you have to stand out.

This is very funny. An Ad Agency out of South Florida officially offered Lebron James a summer internship. Read more below: Ad Agency Readies Offer for LeBron James — Summer internship Could Lure Superstar to Chicago or South Florida.

Head of Career Service gives advice to parents coping with their student’s internship search.

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You have to watch this Cisco Intern rap!

Drew Coyne is currently enrolled in a Master’s Degree of Education at Harvard University. His undergraduate degree is from Cornell University in Policy Analysis and Management, and Inequality Studies. He has worked for three different internships starting in Thailand then Los Angeles, ending the last in Washington D.C.  All were exciting in very different ways. One of the best ways to learn is [...]

For those of you looking for an internship with a fortune 500 company, look no further than Walt Disney Company. Not only does their website clearly explain what they are about, but it gives tips on applying, interviewing, and ways to follow up after an interview. There are very few web sites that provide such [...]

Stephanie L. Anstiss is a recruiter for Fifth Third Bank in North Carolina She was kind enough to share her feedback on ways to land a job at a financial company.  What do you look for when recruiting? The main thing that we look for in a Customer Service Representative (Teller) is retail experience. Positions [...]

Get creative and think about following Google and Rosetta Stone. It’s worth it and students will love you for caring enough to get them involved in real activities. Has your company utilized case challenges as a recruiting tool?

Creativity can lead to impossible-to-land internships.

It pays to major in engineering. Geez!

Payscale.com has recently come out with the top 10 colleges for starting salary. Here they are.

Liberal Arts schools do pay off. Payscale.com just recently cam out with their annual data on starting salaries for recent graduates at liberal arts universities.

After 125,093 votes, Intuit is crowned internship king! Intuit received over 38,000 final round votes for internship king.