On-campus recruiting is much easier. Before the students arrive, we communicate with them about what to expect in terms of a job search, including our expectation that they will conduct a self-directed job search. We offer contacts to the Web site and suggest that they go through certain sections to get an understanding about how we conduct the career-services office. Our MBAs get the majority of their job-search education between orientation and the end of September in their first year. When they arrive at school, we host an orientation session that continues our philosophy about placement and what happens.
Students sign up for interviews, companies register their schedules, and so forth via our Web site.
In early September, an expert on the job search and resume writing comes to speak to students. Throughout the fall semester and early into the spring, we have other seminars, such as business etiquette, salary and negotiation, and interview skills. You have to be able to interview well and have the usual social graces and social worth. The things that we teach tend to support both processes. You've been on both sides of the MBA equation, as a recruiter and a placement director.