Issue 41 - July 2018
Attracting Recent Graduates During Summer
The Career Edge team's newest additions, recent graduates Miranda and Joshua from Ryerson University's respective business and human resources programs, offer advice to employers on recruiting their peers.
  • Be active on LinkedIn and leverage other social media

  • Ensure swift response times (no one likes long recruitment processes)! Respect their time and speed up assessment times/interview feedback

  • Attend networking events

  • SELL the culture (think of well-known corporate cultures like Google with a casual dress code and napping stations)

  • Offer perks!! (millennials love a work-life balance) and bring non-monetary value (gym membership, remote work days)
Pictured: Miranda Bashir, Marketing Assistant & Joshua Go, Campus Engagement Coordinator
Slower than extra-inning baseball games, more discouraging than sold-out concerts, and as infuriating as the traffic encountered driving north… it’s the dog days of recruitment, when the interest of your stockpiled warm candidates will never exceed the heat of the dog days of summer. No one outside the recruitment world understands what you’re sweating through.

Their pools need chlorine, and space to fit 10 people. Yours starts at 50, and everyone inside must possess a bachelor’s in lifeguarding, with a master’s in marine biology. They check their phones and see invitations to patios, road trips, and weddings. You avoid yours, dreading correspondence from candidates recently accepting an offer.

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