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Meet the TalentEgg Awards judges: Top students from Vancouver Island University, University of Waterloo, Ted Rogers School of Management and Odette School of Business

The judging period for the 2014 TalentEgg National Campus Recruitment Excellence Awards has officially begun!

An elite panel, made up of 200 top students from schools across Canada, is currently examining and providing feedback on employers’ campus recruitment initiatives, eventually leading to the selection of the Top 3 finalists and winners in each category. Continue reading

How student leaders choose where to work: Introduction

If you asked many new grads how they chose which employer to start their careers with, they’d probably tell you that they waited until the last minute (i.e., April) and frantically applied to any employer that was hiring for roles they were somewhat qualified for.

As we’ve discovered through our award-winning Student Voice initiative, which appears in Metro every Wednesday, some of them apply to hundreds of jobs with no response from employers. They feel desperate and panicked. As students, they were probably Unreachables and some of them may just be unlucky High Potentials.

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