Didn't go to well-known school? Don't worry. There are still ways to get noticed by top recruiters.
By Sue Shellenbarger June 17, 2019 10:50 a.m. ET Illustration: Jon Krause If the college-admissions scandal is any guide, attending an elite college is a ticket to a high-paying job. So what about students at lesser-known colleges, with names few people even recognize?
Dogged networking for an internship during his sophomore year, both at events and via emails and phone calls, netted Mr. Huang more than 100 new contacts—although many of his conversations with them were discouraging. He still remembers one investment banker’s response to his pitch: “He said no, that because I didn’t go to one of the firm’s target schools, it would be too much of an uphill battle for me,’ ” Mr. Huang says. “In that moment, I just knew that I had to keep working hard.
Still, students from elite colleges and universities such as the Ivy League and Stanford, or big, highly regarded state schools such as Penn State and the University of Michigan, are far more likely to see corporate recruiters on campus. Fewer employers are now sending representatives to colleges in the first place—about 72% compared with 89% in 2006, says Edwin Koc, director of research at the National Association of Colleges and Employers.
He began networking with Wheaton alumni, friends and others, in the hope of landing a summer internship in finance. “It took a ton of conversations, and frankly, painful ones at first,” he says. He flew to New York on one fall break with only a single appointment set up, then scheduled a half-dozen more by telling contacts, “I’m coming to New York for a networking week,” he says. His efforts paid off.
Big employers can’t recruit on all of the nation’s 3,000 four-year campuses, of course, but they’re more likely to recruit at lesser-known schools if alumni hold top jobs at the company. Companies say they democratize the hiring process by posting internships and jobs on their websites so that students from any school can apply. Online applications are easily overlooked amid hundreds of competitors or weeded out by applicant-tracking systems, however.
Gordon College creates internships in-house. Neema Kamau, a senior there, says experience she gained as an assistant to the college’s CFO helped her land an internship this summer as a global markets analyst with Bank of America Merrill Lynch in New York.
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