Does CBS attend any forums or consortiums to widen the prospects for students — especially internationals?
We don’t partner with any schools to do any consortiums, job, or career fairs. If there is a job fair going on, however, and somebody sends us publicity, we’ll post that for students. But we don’t sponsor any specific job fairs. Our participation is pretty passive, and the forums that interest our students mostly tend to be international. But students, by and large, will forgo attending the EMDS job fair in Brussels, for example, because many of the companies there are already recruiting here on campus. I’d say, though, that the forums are part of the 40% of what we do here that is not on-campus recruiting. We do, however, do conferences where student clubs will host a specific group of industry professionals. The VC club, for example, did a symposium on principal investing that was educational in nature — it was not primarily designed as a placement event. Instead, it was one way for students to learn about the realities surrounding venture capital. And the recruiting part becomes a
