Recruiting and Interviewing Benchmarks

UIUC Interviewing/Recruiting Summary 2003-2004

(Recruitment and Graduation Benchmarks 2006-2007)
(Recruitment and Graduation Benchmarks 2005-2006)
(Recruitment and Graduation Benchmarks 2004-2005)

• The number of on-campus interviewing schedules increased for the first time in three years (13.9% from last year) with over 25,429 students interviewing, a 14.3% increase from the previous year. It appears that on-campus recruiting may be rebounding from its lows
• The number of student interviews is still short of the 34,000 interviews in 1999-00 and 2000-01. It is 2,603 less than the 5-year average.
• Illinois at Urbana-Champaign continues to host more student interviews than any other college or university in the United States. This was validated by a 2002 NACE (National Association of Colleges and Employers) Career Services Performance Measurement Survey.
• The number of job listing vacancies continued to decline (9.6%) although much less than last year when there was a 25% drop in job vacancy postings.
• The past year employers increased their contact with career services offices at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (20.3%). Yet, the number of actual internships and jobs that were published decreased (-7.3%). It appears that employers are maintaining or increasing their contacts with the university community yet posting less actual available positions. Speculation is that employers may be gearing up for future employment needs as the economy rebounds from its recession.
• Surprisingly, student participation declined significantly (18.6%) compared to the last three years with only 14,874 students involved compared to the average 18,000 the previous three years.
• There seems to be a national trend suggesting that on-campus employer activity is increasing while student participation decreases. This may be an indication of students sense of hopelessness regarding job opportunities and traditional recruiting methods. It is not unusual that student participation lags behind a recovery in employment opportunities.
• While the number of internship listings declined, on-campus recruiting for internships grew with 248 employers (82% increase), 340 schedules (8% increase), and 2,754 interviews (16% increase). Student registration for internship recruiting increased even though student participation declined in other areas of recruiting.
• Career Search, a cooperative venture of career services offices on the three campuses and the Alumni Association supporting the largest employer information database in the world, was extensively used by students and alumni. From July to June, 15,149 searches were conducted on the Illinois system and company contact information was downloaded or printed on 1,338,074 potential employers.
• The Career Services Network website, inaugurated in fall 2002 to expedite employer and student access to the campus career services offices, has been overwhelmingly successful and utilized. During 2003-2004 the site had 6,673,270 hits serving 169,973 unique users that made 378,090 visits to the site to acquire information about career services at UIUC.

Top Employers of graduates (all majors)

Chancellors Senior Survey on the Undergraduate Experience 2004 administered by the Center for Teaching Excellence, John Ory, Director (reported by the graduates themselves in the Senior Survey)

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