The research also found that, when it comes to technical talent
recruiting, best-practice organizations focus their resources on key universities
with a record of supplying successful technical talent. For example,
Schlumberger focuses on certain schools in its recruiting efforts,
based on criteria such as past student hiring, performance success, and
subsequent attrition rates. Recruiting is handled by assigned recruiters,
and the overall university relationship is partially managed by volunteer
Schlumberger technical employees. Schlumberger has an extensive
internship program including short internships that it calls “field camps.”
Th e one-week field camps involve a greater number of students at a lower
cost to the organization than more traditional internships. Like internships,
the field camps introduce the organization’s work to interested
students and provide an opportunity to evaluate possible candidates.