The “talent is everywhere” mantra adopted by U.S. employers when the job market was white hot is giving way to a more traditional entry-level recruiting strategy: hire from a few select universities.
Instead of one or two passes through 45 to 50 schools each year, GE Appliances now attends four or five events each semester at a slimmer shortlist of 15 select universities that includes Purdue and Auburn.
Bill, a financial technology firm, is focused on recruiting heavily from colleges near its corporate offices in San Jose, Calif., and Draper, Utah.
And McKinsey, the white-shoe consulting firm that expanded its recruitment efforts well beyond the Ivy League in the wake of George Floyd’s murder, recently removed inclusive language from its career page that said, “We hire people, not degrees.”