Interview with Shakira Rhoads, Assistant Director of Career Services at Missouri Southern State University

GradLeaders recently interviewed Shakira Rhoads, Assistant Director of Career Services at Missouri Southern State University. We wanted to check in with one of our partner schools to better understand changes they’re making to increase student engagement in the virtual world we live in today. Here’s what Shakira shared with our intern, Emily Mowry…

How to Properly Utilize Your Career Center During College

College students who visit their career center are more likely to receive a full-time job right after graduation than students who don’t, according to a recent Gallup study. These students are also more likely to say that their school prepared them well for life after college. The problem is that many students don’t properly utilize their career centers, and some don’t visit them at all. It’s important for students to understand the value career centers can provide for life after college.

Analyzing On-Campus Recruiting Trends — Insights in MBA Recruiting Trends from GradLeaders’ Data Expert, Dave Hoy

This is a topic that GradLeaders has discussed with several long-time partner schools — the apparent trend away from traditional on-campus recruiting efforts. While it is undeniable that a few of the major MBA employers have gone away from OCR, let’s take a look at what the data can tell us.

To produce the charts below, we used a control group of 12 schools that have been on the GradLeaders platform for at least 5 years. The control group is a blend of schools geographically scattered across the map with some diversity in the business school rankings.