Recruit@Duke News Spring 2008

As The Duke MBA Career Management Center (CMC) prepares for the 2008-2009 recruiting season, we want to provide you with key information that will help with your recruiting efforts. Topics in this issue of Recruit@Duke include:

• Spring Recruiting Options
• 2008-09 Recruiting Registration
• New Recruiting Model
• 2008 Recruiting Workshops
• Are You Missing Great Interns?
• Videoconferencing at The Fuqua School of Business
• New Green Recruiting Policy
• New CMC Staff Members

Spring Recruiting Options

For recruiters who conduct just-in-time hiring, the spring is the perfect time to find great talent!

Companies can work with the CMC in a number of ways to identify candidates. Two of the best ways are advertising on our job posting form and/or reviewing our resume books. Both options are free! To order the spring resume books, please contact your account manager. You can also advertise directly to our student clubs. The Duke MBA Association Web site provides links to all of the club Web sites. Feel free to contact the club presidents directly to discuss marketing your position.

2008-09 Recruiting Registration

Registration for 2008-09 recruiting begins May 1, 2008 for Equity Partners and May 12, 2008 for all other companies. Companies that recruited on campus in 2007-08 will be e-mailed instructions regarding the registration process later this spring. If you did not recruit on campus in 2007-08 and are interested in doing so in 2008-09, please e-mail our employer services team to be included in this mailing.

Please see our 2008-2009 recruiting calendar for important dates.

At the end of this newsletter is a list of Equity Partners for 2008-09. These companies are recognized for having invested $5,000 or more at Fuqua during the current (2007-2008) academic year.  If you have questions regarding your company's past or future giving to Fuqua, please contact Stephen Windham, Associate Director of Corporate Relations at +1 919 660 7710.

New Recruiting Model

Recruiting at Duke will change in the 2008-2009 academic year. Our goal is to allow you, our recruiting partners, to meet the best and most interested candidates during your campus visits. Your account manager will contact you in the next few weeks to discuss the structural changes for company presentations and career fairs.

The 2008 Recruiting Workshops

For nineteen years, recruiting workshops have been conducted at Duke to help college recruiters become more successful at their trade. The purpose of these workshops is to offer a comprehensive look at the best practices in the field.

This year, two training programs will be offered at Duke University, featuring some of the leading national authorities on recruiting:

Selection Interviewing: June 11

Strategic College Recruiting: June 12 - 13

For detailed information on these programs or to register, please visit the Recruiting Workshops Web site or call the workshop coordinator at +1 919 660 7673.

Are You Missing Great Interns?

Many of our international students arrive at Fuqua having held significant responsibility, with experience managing cross-functional teams, and with extensive knowledge in their professional area of focus. They exhibit valuable insight, managerial experience, and cultural perspective. With their cross-cultural business intelligence, language skills, and global experience, international students can contribute to your organization in many ways.

From a company perspective, there is no difference in hiring an international student for an internship compared to a domestic student. There is no additional cost or paperwork required, and international students' Tax ID numbers function identically to domestic students Social Security numbers for HR purposes.

Facts about hiring international interns:

• Sponsorship by the company is not required:  Most international students will work under the Curricular Practical Training (CPT) that is a part of their student visa.
• An offer letter is required: In order for an international student to get the CPT paper work completed, they do require an offer letter as proof of the opportunity.
• Accounting is simple: Though international students do not get a Social Security number, they are assigned a Tax ID number when they produce an offer letter.  The Tax ID number works the same as a Social Security number would in accounting for the employee.
• Full-time hiring: Each year the US government makes 10,000 visas available for graduates of advanced degree programs in the U.S. in addition to the 65,000 visas available annually.  Because Duke University supports Optional Practical Training, Duke graduates can work for up to one year after graduation in the US without an H1B visa.

For more information on recruiting international Duke MBA students, please visit the Duke International Office Web site or contact Steve Dalton, Associate Director for International Affairs, at +1 919 660 7811.

Videoconferencing at The Fuqua School of Business

Videoconferencing is a cost-effective and eco-friendly alternative for reaching out to Duke MBA students. Below are some common questions and answers pertaining to our videoconferencing system.

What are the requirements for setting up videoconference at Fuqua?
Our videoconferencing system is IP-based, which means it internet based.  If your system is not IP-based and is ISDN, there are many ways to bridge the two systems.  For a small fee, our technicians work with you to make your event of the best quality. 

How many students can I reach with videoconferencing?
Our videoconferencing room holds twenty to thirty people, with a quality view of seven people.  However, we also own a portable system, so you can have your event in an interview room, classroom, or in our auditorium.

How do I schedule a videoconferencing event (interview, presentation, etc.)?
It is very simple to schedule your videoconference event. Contact your account manager with the date and time of your event and they will reserve the room. They will also work with you and our multi-media department to make sure that our systems will work together

Is there a charge?
There is no charge as long as you have an IP-based system. If you have an ISDN-based system, please work with your IT department to bridge the systems. There may be a charge if you request help from our technicians, depending on the time and technology needed. There is a $30/hour staffing charge if your event is scheduled outside of our business hours (9:00 a.m. EST – 5:00 p.m. EST, Monday-Friday).

Will I be able to share documents, like PowerPoint presentations?
Our systems do not allow the sharing of documents. You can email your documents to your account manager and they will display them on a screen in the room of your event and/or make copies for the student(s).

New Green Recruiting policy

A common practice at recruiting events is for employers to give away company logo merchandise, such as coffee mugs, key chains, or notepads, to all participating students. This is a visible way to demonstrate commitment to Duke MBA recruiting and to showcase the company and/or its products. Yet packaging, shipping, and distribution – which are necessary to make the giveaways possible – consume natural resources and create waste when extra products are left after the event.

Beginning in the 2008-2009 academic year, employers are prohibited from distributing giveaway items to all students attending their corporate presentation, office hours, or career expo exhibit. This policy includes logo merchandise and company products, and applies to any employer conducting school-facilitated recruiting on Fuqua’s campus or at a nearby location such as the Washington Duke Inn. We hope this new initiative will emphasize interactions between employers and students as the focus of the recruiting process, while also reducing cost, fuel use, effort, and waste associated with the packaging, shipping, storing and distribution of company giveaway items.

We are happy to support company efforts in building brand awareness among Duke MBA students. Employers may pursue one or more of many options to achieve maximum visibility during their recruiting event. Some options include CMC-produced employer summaries in advance of each event, donations to selected causes supported by the Fuqua student community, a small number of prize items raffled off to students and coupons for company products or services. For more information about our new policy and more alternative options, please see our green policy online.

Duke MBA Career Management Center staff additions

Ana Quinn recently joined the Duke MBA Career Management Center as Associate Director. In her role, Ana provides counseling and job search preparation for Daytime MBA students interested in health care, general marketing, business development and technology. Ana Rios Quinn brings extensive coaching and corporate experience to her role as Associate Director and Career Counselor. Ana was the Founder and Head of AIMS Coaching, a coaching practice providing professional and personal development solutions. Simultaneously, she oversaw client services and business operations for Applied Integrated Market Strategies (AIMS-LLC), AIMS Coaching’s parent company. In that capacity, she worked regularly with global technology, diagnostics, pharmaceutical and other major corporations.

Prior to AIMS, LLC Ana was Vice President and Director of Professional Services in the Miami office of Lee Hecht Harrison, where she oversaw operations, services and coaching deliveries. She provided coaching, consulting and counseling services in English and Spanish to more than 1,000 clients in transition from a diverse group of industries.

Ana holds a Master of Business Administration from the University of Miami, and a Bachelor of Arts in Economics and Communications from Tulane University. An International Coach Federation member, Ana is a Coach U graduate and received her Associate Certified Coach designation through ICF.

Catherine Nininger-Finch recently joined the Duke MBA Career Management Center as Assistant Director for Career Programs. In her role, Catherine manages all of our career programs and resources for the Daytime MBA students, Executive MBA students and alumni. Catherine Nininger-Finch is a familiar face to many at Fuqua but in a new role within the CMC. For the year prior to her joining the CMC, Catherine worked in Marketing and Communications as the Marketing Manager for The Duke MBA - Daytime, the Health Sector Management program, and the CMC.

As Assistant Director for Career Programs, she takes on a restructured position with a focus on maximizing the career programs and resources for Duke MBA students and alumni. In this capacity, she will manage the creation, implementation, and evaluation of a comprehensive portfolio of career programs spanning Daytime students, Executive students, and alumni.

Catherine is a native of Durham, NC and a graduate of North Carolina State University where she majored in Communications. Prior to joining Fuqua, Catherine worked at Kane Realty Corporation in Raleigh, NC where she managed the marketing of the North Hills development.

Ryan M. Smith recently joined the Fuqua community on as the Program Director for Executive MBA and Alumni Career Services. We have the added good fortune that many of us have already worked with Ryan. Ryan is a former Assistant Director in the Duke MBA CMC and worked with Daytime students, Executive students, and alumni during his initial tenure. Since that time, he has completed his PhD coursework in Experimental Psychology at the University of Tennessee, and was serving as an Organizational Development Consultant at Oak Ridge National Labs in Knoxville, TN. Prior to working at Fuqua, his corporate roles were in marketing and recruiting.

Ryan received his Bachelor degree from Grove City College in Pennsylvania and a Master of Master of Arts in Professional Psychology from Geneva College.

We are excited to have Ana, Catherine and Ryan join our team!

For a full Duke MBA Career Management Center staff roster, please visit our staff page.

Duke MBA 2008-2009 Equity Partners

Accenture Ltd AdvaMed Allscripts Alnylam US, Inc. American Express Company Amerigroup Charitable Foundation Amgen Inc. AT&T Babsen Capital Management LLC Bank of America Corporation Bank of America Corporation BioCryst Pharmaceuticals, Inc. Boston Scientific Corporation Cardinal Health Chevron Corporation Cisco Citi CNN Conference Board, Inc. Cushman & Wakefield, Inc. CytoKinetics, Inc, Deere & Company Dell Inc. Deloitte Deutsche Bank AG EATON Corporation Eisai Co., Ltd. Eli Lilly and Company Elixir Pharmaceuticals ExxonMobil Corporation Fidelity Corporate Services Financial Security Assurance Holdings Ltd. Financial Times The Ford Motor Company General Electric Company General Motors Corporation GlaxoSmithKline plc Goldman Sachs & Co Greenberg Traurig H.J. Heinz Company HCA Inc. Healthcare Leadership Council

Heidrick & Struggles International, Inc. Alnylam US, Inc. American Express Company Amerigroup Charitable Foundation Hoffmann-La Roche, Inc. IBM Corporation ITT Corporation Johnson & Johnson JPMorgan Chase & Co. KPMG Consulting, Inc. Lehman Brothers Inc. Marketing Science Institute Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Co. McGraw Hill Merck & Co., Inc. Merrill Lynch Morrison & Foerster Nuclear Electric Insurance Ltd. Pfizer Inc Premier, Inc. PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP The Procter & Gamble Company The Quant Group, Ltd. Quintiles Transnational Corp. R.J. Reynolds Ranbaxy Inc. Schering-Plough Corporation Shearman & Sterling Simpson Thatcher & Bartlett SunTrust Bank Teradata, a division of NCR Teva Pharmaceuticals Turner Broadcasting System, Inc. Unilever United States, Inc. Uniprise W.R. Grace & Co. Wachovia Corporation Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. Wiley & Sons Wilson, Sonsini, Goodrich & Rosati ZS Associates