Many employers think of campus recruiting as a profitable business enterprise because they know from experience that investment in personnel and resources will pay off. Students who hope to accept employment before graduation or soon thereafter are well advised to register for campus recruiting at the beginning of their senior year or the last year of their graduate program.
Campus recruiting procedures vary from school to school.
NIU offers an employer pre-selection program. This means that students control the distribution of their resumes to employers they select, and employers decide which of those students they will interview. Historically, students have averaged about 12 to 14 interviews per semester, regardless of their major, though some have done as few as one and others as many as 30 to 40. Typically, the campus recruiting program will generate between 6,000 and 7,000 interviews per year, depending on the strength of the job market. Campus recruiting . . .