The most effective ways to build a list of employers who are likely to hire our graduates is to keep in contact with these employers. The field that my school specializes in is an extremely small, close contected community. Keeping good relationships with these employers will help know who is hiring and will also help us to become the go to place for those employers to hire our graduates. Certain places in this field do not always post jobs either so by having a close relationship with them, the hiring team may contact us to see if we have suitable graduates for the job before they even post the job to others. Monitoring job postings will also help with this as well being that some places are extremely far away. Students do not always want to stay in the same region where our school is located so broadening our search for places who are hiring will help give a variety of jobs to apply to for our graduates and help them to also be where they would like to be.
contacting by email fax internet , graduates,alumni, open communication with current employers and Director should be commnicating with employers to inform about any activities for student and more.. once you build a good relationship with diffent employer, your carrer service department will more effectively on placing and more
The first thing that comes to my mind is networking. Cold call employers and visit employers. Share with them your services that you provide at a free cost to them. Bring the resumes with you and go from there. It's all about working with the right people and finding the right matches for your students and for your department. You have to get to know the employers and find out what is important to them and then match the right person for them. Once you get a taste of success with that employer then you have the start of a good relationship and you can continue to stay in touch. Then when the graduates hopefully continue to be successful there, they will continue to call you back with job openings.
I love your idea on reaching out to the Alumni Associate. You can find a lot of students/graduates that want to give back to the school and want to help others. They can help speak at workshops, recruit for employees and be a great way to recruit for potential students.
It is always great when you can get an employer to come tour your campus. You can showoff your great labs, students and instructors. They can see first hand what you are doing there. When they spend the time to come and meet you on campus, they are truly interested. It's great when you can get them to do interviews on campus as well.
