Recruiting Policies

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• Nondiscrimination |
• Closed List Deadlines |
• Missed Interviews |
• Missing Classes |
• Timing of Offers |
• Timing of Offers |
• Green Recruiting |
• Communicating Student Status |
• Exceptions to Recruiting Policies |
• When Policies Are Not Honored |

Nondiscrimination

Duke University’s Fuqua School of Business forbids discrimination based on sex, race, color, religion, age, national origin, marital status, sexual orientation, arrest record, or disability. In compliance with the Immigration Reform and Control Act, interviews must be made available to all interested MBA students who are authorized to work full-time in the United States for other than practical training purposes, regardless of their citizenship. If United States citizenship is required by your company, please indicate this requirement in the job description for any position for which you are recruiting.

In support of our nondiscrimination policy, we do not provide the student "face book" to recruiters.

Closed List Deadlines

Closed lists are due to the Career Management Center (CMC) one week after the company resume due date. The specific deadline for your company’s closed list can be found on Recruit@Duke . If the CMC does not receive the closed list or an update from the recruiting partner by the closed list due date, we will offer the following options:

Option 1 − The company may reschedule their on-campus interview for the next available date to allow for the extra time needed to decide on closed list candidates; or

Option 2 − The company may keep the interview schedule on the original date and the CMC will open the interview schedule up to all bidders*.

If the recruiting partner does not communicate the status of their closed list to the corporate account manager, the default option will be to reschedule the on-campus interview (Option 1).

*The CMC interviewing system allows for a designated number of interview slots to be available by auction to the lowest winning student bidder.

Missed Interviews

Students and employers are expected to prepare for and keep all interview appointments. A student missing an interview is asked to write a letter of apology to the recruiter. A second no-show may result in the student’s loss of on-campus recruiting privileges.

Missing Classes

Students may not be asked to miss class for an interview.

Timing of Offers

Extending an Offer

The Fuqua Career Management Center operates under the principles outlined by the NACE position paper " Exploding Offers: A Principles for Professional Conduct Committee Position Paper," and we expect our recruiting partners to agree to these principles as well. We agree with NACE and believe that providing sufficient time for students to evaluate their employment opportunities allows them to make the wisest decisions for all parties. This creates a positive experience for candidates and employers, ultimately reducing renege and attrition rates.

To fully support the candidate decision process, The Fuqua Career Management Center has outlined offer timing guidelines for all our student populations.

In accordance with the Day-time MBA academic calendar and recruiting timeline, the Fuqua Career Management Center has established the following date parameters for offers to our Daytime MBA students:

Executive MBA Students and Alumni

Current Executive MBA students and Fuqua alumni are not tied to traditional academic calendars and as such, setting specific date parameters is unnecessary. However, providing the candidate with enough time to make a thoughtful decision remains crucial to a positive recruiting experience for all. Therefore, The Fuqua Career Management Center recommends all full-time offers made to an Executive MBA student or Fuqua alumnus remain open for a minimum of three weeks from the date the written offer is extended.

Master of Management Studies (MMS) Students

In accordance with the MMS academic calendar and recruiting timeline, the Fuqua Career Management Center has established the following date parameters for offers to MMS students:

Timing of Offers

Extending an Offer

The Fuqua Career Management Center operates under the principles outlined by the NACE position paper " Exploding Offers: A Principles for Professional Conduct Committee Position Paper," and we expect our recruiting partners to agree to these principles as well. We agree with NACE and believe that providing sufficient time for students to evaluate their employment opportunities allows them to make the wisest decisions for all parties. This creates a positive experience for candidates and employers, ultimately reducing renege and attrition rates.

To fully support the candidate decision process, The Fuqua Career Management Center has outlined offer timing guidelines for all our student populations.

In accordance with the Day-time MBA academic calendar and recruiting timeline, the Fuqua Career Management Center has established the following date parameters for offers to our Daytime MBA students:

Executive MBA Students and Alumni

Current Executive MBA students and Fuqua alumni are not tied to traditional academic calendars and as such, setting specific date parameters is unnecessary. However, providing the candidate with enough time to make a thoughtful decision remains crucial to a positive recruiting experience for all. Therefore, The Fuqua Career Management Center recommends all full-time offers made to an Executive MBA student or Fuqua alumnus remain open for a minimum of three weeks from the date the written offer is extended.

Master of Management Studies (MMS) Students

In accordance with the MMS academic calendar and recruiting timeline, the Fuqua Career Management Center has established the following date parameters for offers to MMS students:

Green Recruiting

Employers are prohibited from distributing giveaway items to 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 & Golf Club. As an alternative, a company may bring a few products to display or to conduct a raffle-style giveaway for one or two attendees.

In lieu of giveaways, an employer may donate to one of three selected causes supported by the Fuqua student community. We are proud to offer this opportunity to support the CASE Summer Internship Program , Duke MBA Games , and the House that Fuqua Built. Sponsorship levels will be recognized by the CMC at the following levels:

• Silver: Up to $299
• Gold: From $300 - $499
• Platinum: Over $500

To make a donation, either by check or credit card, please send the information below by e-mail to your CMC Corporate Account Manager. We will forward the message to the appropriate Duke MBA contact on your behalf, who will contact you to complete the transaction.

• Your name
• Your title, phone number, mailing address, and email address
• Your company's name
• Name of the student organization you wish to support
• Indicate the donation reason as "In support of green recruiting at the Duke MBA"
• Amount of sponsorship

Communicating Student Status

It is important that both the employer and student communicate openly throughout the interview, offer, and evaluation processes. All companies should establish and maintain, at most, a four-week window of communication with candidates throughout the process. For example, if your interview was held February 13, please send a follow-up communication no later than March 13, even if the message simply states your process is continuing and that candidates will be notified by an approximate date. All candidates not selected for further consideration also should receive notification of their final status once the selection process has been concluded.

Exceptions to Recruiting Policies

For international recruiters
International companies or divisions of companies may find it more practical to interview first- and second-year students during the same visit to Fuqua. As a result, companies or divisions of companies based outside of the United States, Canada, or Mexico may interview and make offers to first- or second-year students outside of our regular recruiting calendar. We encourage you to keep the lines of communication open with candidates and work with them to find a mutually agreeable decision date.

For affinity group conferences
In recent years, affinity group conferences such as the National Black MBA Conference and the National Society of Hispanic MBAs Conference have become increasingly popular for recruiters and students. Because these events occur very early in the on-campus recruiting process for second-year students and well in advance of the recruiting process for first-year students, we strongly suggest that any offers made to Fuqua students as a result of these events remain open until December 31, 2009, for second-year students and February 1, 2010, for first-year students.

When Policies Are Not Honored

If the policies listed above are not honored, the following consequences could apply:

• Two-week delay in registration for the following recruiting year's on-campus activities (Career Expos, Corporate Presentations, Networking Nights, Office Hours, and MMS, first-year, and second-year interviews).
• Two-week delay in holding on-campus interviews for the following recruiting year (MMS, first-year, and second-year interviews).