Fall interviews for full-time positions begin on October 8, 2012. Spring interviews for internship positions begin on January 2, 2013, with SuperWeek, a full week of finance interviews. Recruiting for all other internship positions starts on January 15, 2013.

To ensure that employers have equal access to job candidates and that students complete the first semester curriculum, no internship interviews can take place, on or off campus, before the specified interviewing period.
Please review the guidelines for interviewing, interview follow-up, and making offers to our MBA students.

Interviewing

In order to invite a student to interview with your organization on campus, please provide your Relationship Manager with the names of students selected for an interview. The CDO will notify students and create an interview schedule that does not conflict with the students' class schedules. SOM policy prohibits students from missing class for on or off campus interviews.

We encourage you to select at least 5 alternates for your closed schedule in the event a student declines your invitation to interview. Please share your list of alternate candidates with your Relationship Manager, who will communicate regularly with students.

Recruiters are asked to make every effort to adhere to their confirmed interviewing schedules, since delays may cause class conflicts for students. If you need to alter your schedule, please notify your Relationship Manager as soon as possible. If weather conditions prevent you from keeping appointments, please advise us; we will inform the affected students and work with you to schedule an alternate interview date.

Please note that there are no internship interviews on or off campus during the International Experience (March 12-21). To ensure that employers have equal access to job candidates and that students complete the first semester curriculum, no internship interviews can take place, on or off campus, before the specified interviewing period.

Interview Follow-up

The CDO requests that employers extend invitations for second round interviews directly to students, and inform the CDO. To avoid undue pressure on students, we ask that employers conduct first-round interviews and second-round interviews on separate days.

Offers

To balance the needs of both students and employers, we have established the following guidelines for all firms, on or off campus, extending offers to SOM students.

• All students must receive a written employment offer. The beginning of the offer period coincides with the date of the offer letter.

• As a guideline, full-time offers, including those extended at the completion of a summer internship, must not preempt a student’s ability to participate in on-campus recruiting. For full-time offers extended on or after the start date of full-time on-campus interviewing (October 9, 2012), we recommend that students be given four weeks to make a decision.
  
  
• For students considering internship offers, we recommend three to four weeks. Reply dates that are designed to preempt a student’s ability to participate in or complete the on-campus recruiting process are not consistent with this policy.

• An "exploding offer" is one that required a decision in conflict with the timing mentioned above. The CDO does not condone the use of such offers.

• We ask that you work with students to identify mutually agreeable offer response deadlines. If a student feels that the amount of time is not sufficient for him/her to make a decision, the student should communicate to the firm how much time is required and why the time is needed. If the timeframe is still insufficient after this conversation, please contact the CDO to discuss next steps.