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The Heart for Profession Improvement thanks Wills Rutherford for his time as a Peer Profession Advisor at Rice, offering college students with profession steerage, and we congratulate him on securing his job from the Rice Expo. Responding to his opinion piece, “The Rice profession truthful fails Rice college students,” I’ll elaborate upon the components employers think about when deciding whether or not to take part in Rice profession expos, the general recruiting surroundings and the method Rice college students ought to pursue when searching for employment.
Rice is an elite college with high expertise and employers actively search to rent our college students. These components alone, nevertheless, is not going to assure that employers will spend their time and assets recruiting at Rice. Why aren’t some corporations akin to Tesla attending profession expos? Many components embrace the employers’ hiring wants, recruiting assets (folks and cash), bodily location of the employer and Rice, wanted abilities and competencies, majors, success with previous hiring efforts, means to challenge hiring wants 9 months into the long run and measurement of the scholar inhabitants. For instance, UT Austin has over 6.5 occasions as many college students as Rice from which to recruit. Resulting from bodily on-campus house restrictions, now we have a waitlist of employers wanting to attend yearly. This 12 months, for the primary time, we provided two consecutive fall expos, an in-person expo and a digital one. Each have been well-attended with 159 employers and a couple of,589 college students. We inspired college students to go to each, as there have been totally different employers attending.
The expo won’t ever meet the wants of each Rice scholar, nor ought to it, and we are going to by no means have the right combine or kind of employer to fulfill each scholar. The expo is however one solution to community and safe an internship or employment. Employers recruit in a number of methods together with attending expos, conducting campus interviews, recruiting off-campus, internet hosting data classes or espresso chats, posting jobs in Handshake, and more and more extra are recruiting nearly. The CCD actively advises employers on their preferrred recruiting technique. Excluding Moderna, who not too long ago linked with us, each employer talked about within the article has present job postings or lively postings previously 12 months. For instance, Tesla at the moment lists 43 lively job postings and had 264 postings for Rice college students over the previous 12 months.
College students, the easiest way to safe internships and jobs is thru a multi-layered strategy. The primary is the simplest one: join with the CCD by way of a workshop, appointment, drop-in, Peer Profession Advisor,or on-line assets and we may also help chart your path. Attend employer data classes and low chats. Join with employers on Handshake. In case you can’t discover your focused employers, we are able to join you with alumni or assist you to join an externship to achieve extra information and contacts. It’s thrilling to consider the numerous prospects and profession choices forward of you. The world wants your expertise and we look ahead to serving to you discover and make your house on the earth.