If you’re looking to hire a UofL student or alumni, there are several ways to get in front of the eyes of our students. Both fulltime and part time jobs can be posted on Symplicity. The Career Fair is also a great time to find students that are the right fit for your company. We have a Career Fair every fall and every spring, and there will be a multitude of students looking for the opportunity to gain a full time position with a company.
Alumni
Our Alumni seeking employment are also in our Symplicity database. If you are specifically seeking more experienced workers, you can indicate so on your job posting and resumes of Alumni specifically will be sent to you.
Sign up for Symplicity
Symplicity is the site Speed School uses to post jobs, events, workshops and more to students. To post your jobs and/or events for students, register for Symplicity on the Symplicity website as an employer. You can then post jobs, register for career fairs and events, and receive resumes from students that fit the specifications you’re looking for.
Career Fairs (mid-February, early September, see Symplicity or Career Services staff for details) and Co-op/Internship Mock Interviews (early-February, late May, and mid July)
Engagement Opportunities
Career Fair
Attending a career fair is the best way to get in front of a large number of applicants in one day. Speed School holds two career fairs semi-annually for employers to connect with engineering students looking for co-op/intern opportunities, as well as those seeking full-time positions. Registration is available through Speed Symplicity at https://cardinalcareers-csm.symplicity.com/events.
Tabling
Reserving a table is a good way to strengthen your brand. A table is set up for your organization in the Duthie Center for Engineering. This is a high traffic area in the Speed School and provides a great forum to casually connect with applicants between classes.
Information Sessions
Hosting a session allows employers to promote your organization, talk about company culture, share career opportunities, and meet prospective candidates. Information sessions are typically an hour long during lunch (12:00-1:00 pm) Monday-Friday. In that hour its best to provide a 15-25 minute presentation followed by questions and networking. It’s ideal to bring a Speed School alumni, recent college grad, and/or engineer, if possible. Also, applicants are most engaged with product displays and demos.
Student Organizations
We encourage you to partner with student organizations as part of your recruitment strategy. Your company will have the opportunity to engage with diverse candidates and showcase why students should work for your organization. There are many events for employers to engage such as: alumni networking, presentations, workshops, sponsorship etc.
Company Site Visits
Site visits are an excellent forum to showcase your company’s products/services and culture. We partner with interested companies to coordinate tours for student groups typically on Fridays. The format is open and flexible to meet each employer’s needs.
Non-Discrimination Policy
The University of Louisville is committed to equal employment opportunity for all persons regardless of race, color, religion, sex, age, national origin, citizenship status (as defined under the Immigration Reform and Control Act), disability, or veteran’s status. (Inclusion of other protected categories such as sexual orientation or marital status depends upon the school’s policy and state law.) The University of Louisville is also committed to provide all of its programs and activities to its students and alumni on a nondiscriminatory basis.
Equal employment opportunity extends to all aspects of the employment relationship including hiring, recruiting, interviewing, selection, transfer, promotion, training, working conditions, compensation, benefits, and other terms and conditions of employment.
The University of Louisville expects that any employer or third-party organization representing an employer that uses its facilities, including but not limited to the career services office, for the purpose of recruiting full-time, part-time, and temporary employees or interns and cooperative education students, complies with federal and state equal employment opportunity laws in its recruiting and hiring. The University of Louisville also expects that employers, third-party organizations, and their representatives strive to eliminate all forms of harassment, including sexual harassment in their recruiting, hiring, and selection process.
Employment Offers
Employers making an employment offer to a University of Louisville student are referred first to the NACE position on Reasonable Offer Deadline Guidelines. Efforts should be made on the part of the employer to give students adequate time to fully consider an offer of a co-op, internship or full-time employment. In accordance with NACE Principles of Professional Conduct, employment professionals will refrain from any practice that improperly influences and affects job acceptances. Such practices may include undue time pressure for acceptance of employment offers and encouragement of revocation of another employment offer. Employment professionals will strive to communicate decisions and updates to candidates within the agreed-upon time frame. Likewise, students are advised to carefully evaluate offers before accepting, and strongly discouraged from reneging after acceptance.
To curtail student declines after acceptance, it is highly recommended that employers offering full-time and internship offers remain open for at least a period of 72 hours to two weeks. This recommendation extends to offers given to current/previous interns and co-ops. It is permissible to offer incentives to students who accept a position in advance of these dates.
Third-Party Recruiters
The Career defines Third-party recruiters as agencies, organizations, or individuals recruiting candidates for temporary, part-time, or full-time employment opportunities for other organizations rather than for internal positions. This includes entities that make referrals or recruit for profit or not for profit, and it includes agencies that collect student information to be disclosed to employers for purposes of recruitment and employment. Examples are employment agencies, search firms, contract recruiters, venture capital firms acting on behalf of their portfolio companies, and online job posting or resume referral services.
Third party recruiters may utilize Career Center job listing services, participate in on-campus recruiting but they may not attend engineering career fairs. They will be required to verify in advance whether they are recruiting for their own organizations or for their clients. Third-party firms who are recruiting for positions within their own organizations must clearly differentiate those opportunities from their client engagements. Failure to abide by these third-party requirements will result in loss of access to Career Center services.
Third-party recruiters representing client organizations must:
Only release candidate information provided to the identified employer in accordance with the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA). Re-disclosure of candidate information to any other parties is not permitted.