Mike Wischhusen

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Casting your Future Through Corporate Partnering
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• Before How, lets talk about Why
• Successful, efficient recruiting is our goal
• We are marketing ourselves to students
• Current situation
• Fewer campuses, smaller budgets
• Its got to make BUSINESS SENSE

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How?

• Partner at Career Center Level
• Job Search phase motivated, ready to Go!
• End of the students campus experience
• Partner throughout the campus experience
• faculty, staff and student exposure
• repeat impressions

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Career Center

• Direct Financial Support
• Serious relationship
• Name recognition
• Advertising
• publications, web-sites
• Alumni employee connection
• campus interview teams

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Career Center

• Faculty-Staff / Corporate interaction
• familiarity, mutual understanding
• better information to students
• faculty recommendations
• Seminars, mock interview sessions
• Resume database access

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Campus Experience

• Interaction with faculty, staff and students
• Experiential Education opportunities
• coops, internships
• technical and commercial
• Faculty support
• graduate level research support
• Undergraduate Research Initiative

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Campus Experience

• Student interaction
• employees pursuing advanced degrees
• sponsor class projects
• support student associations - SAE, SWE,
• classroom visits, guest lectures
• Scholarship / Grant offerings

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The Future

• Virtual interviews
• Database sharing
• Faculty / Corporate exchange
• ...