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What’s Wrong With College Recruiting? Identifying Your Out-of-Date Program Features

What’s wrong with college recruiting? Well as a result of years of underfunding, the answer may, unfortunately, be “almost everything.” Nearly every organization is currently struggling to recruit its needed college talent, because after years of reduced hiring, the demand for college hires is up almost 10 percent this year. The other major reason why corporate university recruiting programs are struggling is because, during the recent economic downturn, most college recruiting budgets have at best been stagnant. As a result, most college programs haven’t been modernized or updated in years and very few new recruiting features have been added.