This paper discusses the recruiting and retaining recent college graduates. The unique benefits of recent college graduates are explored, as well as the best ways to recruit this specific demographic of candidates. In addition, how to retain these valuable employees, once they have been brought on board is also discussed. As the marketplace becomes ever more competitive, it becomes increasingly important for companies to hire and retain the best candidates possible. By efficiently and effectively attracting and retaining recent college graduates, organizations can be one step closer to ensuring their success within the industry.
Inhaltsverzeichnis (Table of Contents)
- Introduction
- Today's global economy is more competitive than ever.
- Overview of topics to be covered in paper
- Benefits of hiring recent college grads
- Effective strategies for recruiting
- Understanding their desires to retain grads once they've been hired.
- Benefits to hiring recent college grads
- Effective means of recruiting recent college grads
- Common mistakes made by employers when recruiting on campus
- Develop a relationship with university faculty
- Less formal recruiting efforts that are effective
- Media and Making a Positive Connection
- Top reasons why a student excepts a job offer
- Top reasons why they decline a job offer
- Nine areas of improvement for an organization's recruiting efforts
- Retaining the Recent College Graduate
Zielsetzung und Themenschwerpunkte (Objectives and Key Themes)
This paper focuses on the recruitment and retention of recent college graduates. It explores the unique benefits these graduates offer to employers, examines effective recruiting strategies for this demographic, and discusses how to retain these valuable employees after they have been hired. The paper emphasizes the importance of attracting and retaining top talent in today's competitive marketplace and how organizations can leverage their recruiting efforts to achieve long-term success.
- Benefits of hiring recent college graduates
- Effective recruitment strategies for recent college graduates
- Retention strategies for recent college graduates
- Importance of building relationships with university faculty
- The role of media and personal connection in recruiting
Zusammenfassung der Kapitel (Chapter Summaries)
- Introduction: This section introduces the paper's focus on the competitive nature of today's global economy and the importance of hiring the best candidates, especially recent college graduates. It also outlines the key topics to be covered, including the benefits of hiring recent college graduates, effective recruiting strategies, and methods for retaining them after employment.
- Benefits to hiring recent college grads: This section explores the advantages of employing recent college graduates, highlighting their current education, open-mindedness, willingness to learn, and potential for longevity.
- Effective means of recruiting recent college grads: This section provides an overview of recruiting strategies for recent college graduates, including building a desirable company image, identifying essential skills in candidates, and discussing the relevance of GPA in the recruiting process. It also emphasizes the importance of early recruiting efforts through internships, co-ops, and externships, as well as utilizing websites, classroom presentations, career fairs, and interview days.
- Common mistakes made by employers when recruiting on campus: This section addresses common errors that employers make when recruiting on campus, such as focusing solely on well-known universities, only conducting interviews, providing insufficient information to students, neglecting to enhance company image, sending uninterested recruiters, and failing to follow up as promised.
- Develop a relationship with university faculty: This section emphasizes the importance of building strong relationships with university faculty as a key element in successful recruitment efforts.
- Less formal recruiting efforts that are effective: This section explores alternative, less formal recruiting methods that can be successful in attracting recent college graduates.
- Media and Making a Positive Connection: This section examines the role of various media in continuous recruiting efforts and underscores the importance of establishing a personal connection, portraying a consistent message, tailoring outreach to student needs and desires, and demonstrating enthusiasm.
- Retaining the Recent College Graduate: This section delves into the challenges of retaining recent college graduates, highlighting the tendency for graduates to leave their first positions within three years and emphasizing the importance of investing in retention to turn recruitment costs into profitable assets. The section explores Maslow's and Herzberg's theories of motivation as they relate to graduate needs, the two sides of a career, the desire for career development, and the unique characteristics of this generation.
Schlüsselwörter (Keywords)
The key topics and concepts explored in this paper include: recent college graduate recruitment, retention strategies, employer-employee relationships, career development, organizational success, competitive advantage, student demographics, recruiting best practices, university partnerships, and the impact of media in recruiting.
- Citation du texte
- Kimberly Wylie (Auteur), 2003, Recruiting the recent college grad: Best practices for long-term employment success, Munich, GRIN Verlag, https://www.grin.com/document/56631
