It’s January, and so career service offices are focused on internships
The second you get back to campus in January, the clock starts ticking. While the fall is usually for seniors looking for full-time jobs, the spring is the prime season for summer internships. This is when mid-sized companies and local firms finally get their budgets approved and start looking for students. Your college career services […]
January is the best time to refresh your entry level recruiting strategy
January is not the off-season for campus recruiting. It is the pre-season. While many organizations are still slowly finalizing their annual budgets, savvy talent acquisition professionals are using this window to outpace the competition for 2026 talent. At College Recruiter, we see that the most successful companies use the first month of the year to […]
9 better ways to find and hire the next generation of healthcare talent
In the current landscape of healthcare, the competition for early career talent has moved far beyond the traditional boundaries of career fairs and generic job boards. While platforms like LinkedIn and Indeed remain staples for any recruiting team, the reality is that every other hospital and clinic is already there. If you want to identify, […]
Start the year with better applicant pools and hiring
January is not the off-season for campus recruiting. It is the pre-season. While many organizations are still slowly finalizing their annual budgets, savvy talent acquisition professionals are using this window to outpace the competition for early-career talent. At College Recruiter, we see that the most successful companies use the first month of the year to […]
Beyond the job board: Why the “digital split” is the secret to high-volume hiring success
If you’ve been in the talent acquisition space for a while, you’re likely familiar with the traditional headhunter “split.” It was the original collaborative economy: one recruiter had a great job opening but no candidate; another recruiter had a stellar candidate but no job. To serve the client and the candidate effectively, they’d team up […]
Use the January talent surge to reach candidates before your competitors do
January is not the off-season for campus recruiting. It is the pre-season. While many organizations are still slowly finalizing their annual budgets, savvy employers are using this window to outpace the competition for early-career talent. At College Recruiter, we see that the most successful companies use the first month of the year to bridge the […]
Job Board Leaders’ Roundtable with Gerry Crispin and Ben Eubanks
This month’s gathering of leaders of job boards and related organizations had a bit of a different format from our 17 previous meetings. Gerry Crispin of CareerXroads and Ben Eubanks of Lighthouse Research & Advisory discussed Ben’s LinkedIn post and his subsequent conversations there with Gerry about a recent academic study about the impact Freelancer.com’s […]
Why NewDay is focused on hiring college grads for 1,000 new roles | ep111
On today’s episode of the High Volume Hiring Podcast, we interview NewDay USA‘s chief revenue officer, Franco Greco, to learn why and how the mortgage company plans to hire 1,000 interns over the next few years to serve its military veteran customer base. Cohosts Jeanette Leeds and Steven Rothberg of College Recruiter job search site […]
How I got 37,104 fake jobs and 7,000 fake profiles off LinkedIn | ep124
On today’s Inside Job Boards and Recruitment Marketplaces Podcast, we dive into an issue that impacts almost every site to some degree: fake jobs, candidate profiles, or both. Fraud prevention and scam investigation consultant JAY JONES is the owner of The Profiler Protection Service. And he’s a man on a mission to protect all of […]
15 things media majors should do in January to help their 2026 job search
The holiday season in late December and early January is not the off-season for media majors. It is the pre-season. While most students are taking a break, you have a strategic window to outpace the competition for 2026 roles in newsrooms and production houses. At College Recruiter, we see that the most successful candidates use […]