Schools introduce recruiters to a good book

By Staff -- Logistics Management, 4/1/1999

Recruiting tomorrow's logistics stars often proves costly and time-consuming, but a few logistics schools have taken a step toward simplifying the process. That step is publishing a résumé book, a bound volume that includes the résumés of graduates from the school's logistics program.

"We send out 600 to 700 copies of our résumé book," says Robert A. Novack, associate professor of Business Logistics at Pennsylvania State University. "It introduces companies to students before they meet them in person, and it lets them know that we have a qualified talent pool."

Ted Bouras, assistant director of the Grainger Center for Distribution Management at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, says that his school's résumé books are part of a larger marketing package for the center. "We [also] encourage employers to look at our Web site, which has the most up-to-date résumés," says Bouras. The Grainger book is divided into sections for graduate and undergraduate students seeking internships or full-time employment.

The Penn State book also includes the résumés of students enrolled in both the Business Logistics Department's undergraduate and graduate programs. After recruiters receive the book, they review the résumés and identify students to interview, says Novack. Penn State provides recruiters with an office equipped with the academic files of the selected students. "Seventy percent of the students find jobs in logistics through companies coming to the university on recruiting visits," Novack reports.

Copies of the Penn State Department of Business Logistics book and the University of Wisconsin-Madison résumé book for the Grainger Center for Distribution Management now are available. Interested employers may contact Penn State at (814) 865-1866, or the Grainger Center at (608) 262-1941.