Career Management Center

The Job Search

Generating Interviews

Effective job hunters use several methods to set up interviews. Some ways of generating interviews are:

• The Career Management Office sponsors a campus recruiting program that brings students and employers together. This is the easiest, but not the only, way to set up interviews.
• Through using guides like Standard and Poors and The College Placement Annual, you can identify and contact employers. If your credentials are strong, you might get an interview. This is the most used, but statistically the least effective way of generating interviews.
• Your friends, parents and relatives are often helpful in providing job leads that produce interviews. Developing a network of friends/relatives and their contacts is the most effective job search method.
• The Career Management Office receives several hundred job listings a year. These are all current openings for which the employers are seeking Tulane graduates.
• The State Bureau of Employment services by law must list job openings for all companies that do at least $80,000 business with the federal government. The employment service is a free job placement agency, and a source of job leads which can lead to interviews.
• There are many loony ways - dropping your resume from a helicopter over Wall Street, renting billboards, wearing a sandwich board with your resume on it - that are guaranteed to get attention. These tactics rarely lead to a job, however.